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Terms and Conditions

This page together with any documents referred to on it tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website “York Open Data” www.yorkopendata.org , whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully.

By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing and/or registering to use our site. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

Information about us

York Open Data is operated by City of York Council (“the Council”). The Council is a Local Authority in terms of the Local Government and has its principal place of business at West Offices, Station Rise, York, YO1 6GA.

Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a username, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any username or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

Copyright

Our sites and its content (under exception of the datasets which are individually attributed) is copyright of City of York Council – © 2015 City of York Council. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents of our sites (excluding the datasets licenced under the Open Data Licence) in any form is prohibited other than the following:

  • You may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only.
  • You may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.
  • You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content of our site (excluding the datasets are licenced under the Open Government Licence). Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Data protection

Information on the data we collect from you on York Open Data and how we use it can be found in our privacy notice.

As a Data Controller, the Council is obliged to ensure that all processing of personal data is carried out in accordance with the legislation. Please visit City of York Council’s privacy notice.

Further information may be found by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at www.ico.gov.uk.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site otherwise than as set out above or in the Open Government Licence for some datasets, please address your request to info@yorkopendata.org

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you on publication. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us at info@yorkopendata.org or at West Offices, Station Rise, York, YO1 6GA.

For more information, please see our disclaimer and our privacy notice.