<<beginOptional>>United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0<<endOptional>>

Open Parliament Licence

You are encouraged to use and re-use the information that is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions. Using information under this licence

Use of copyright and database right material made available under this licence (the 'information') indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.

The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the information subject to the conditions below.

This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.

You are free to:

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> copy, publish, distribute and transmit the information

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> adapt the information

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> exploit the information commercially and non-commercially, for example, by combining it with other information, or by including it in your own product or application

You must (where you do any of the above):

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> acknowledge the source of the information in your product or application by including the following attribution statement and, where possible, provide a link to this licence: Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence granted by the Licensor, will end automatically.

Exemptions

This licence does not cover the use of:

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> personal data in the information;

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> information that has neither been published nor disclosed under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Licensor;

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> the Royal Arms and the Crowned Portcullis;

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> third party rights the Licensor is not authorised to license;

   <<var;name="bullet";original="*";match=".{0,20}">> information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and design rights

Non-endorsment

This licence does not grant you any right to use the information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Licensor endorses you or your use of the Information.

No warranty

The information is licensed 'as is' and the Licensor excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the information to the maximum extent permitted by law.

The Licensor is not liable for any errors or omissions in the information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Licensor does not guarantee the continued supply of the information.

Governing law

This licence is governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Definitions

In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:

'Information' means information protected by copyright or by database right (for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code) offered for use under the terms of this licence.

'Information Provider' means either House of Parliament.

'Licensor' means—

   <<var;name="bullet";original="(a)";match=".{0,20}">> in relation to copyright, the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Clerk of the Parliaments representing the House of Commons and House of Lords respectively, and

   <<var;name="bullet";original="(b)";match=".{0,20}">> in relation to database right, the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords respectively.

'Use' means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database right, whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes without limitation distributing, copying, adapting and modifying as may be technically necessary to use it in a different mode or format.

'You' means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate, acquiring rights under this licence.

About the Open Parliament Licence

This is version 3.0 of the Open Parliament Licence. The Licensor may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Parliament Licence. However, you may continue to use information licensed under this version should you wish to do so.

The information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence includes Parliamentary information in which Crown copyright subsists. Further context, best practice and guidance relating to the re-use of public sector information can be found in the UK Government Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website.

