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  1. United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0
  2. Open Parliament Licence
  3. You are encouraged to use and re-use the information that
  4. is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with
  5. only a few conditions. Using information under this licence
  6. Use of copyright and database right material made
  7. available under this licence (the ‘information’) indicates
  8. your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.
  9. The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free,
  10. perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the
  11. information subject to the conditions below.
  12. This licence does not affect your freedom under
  13. fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright
  14. or database right exceptions and limitations.
  15. You are free to:
  16. * copy, publish, distribute and transmit the information
  17. * adapt the information
  18. * exploit the information commercially and non-commercially,
  19. for example, by combining it with other information,
  20. or by including it in your own product or application
  21. You must (where you do any of the above):
  22. * acknowledge the source of the information in your
  23. product or application by including the following
  24. attribution statement and, where possible, provide a
  25. link to this licence: Contains Parliamentary information
  26. licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
  27. These are important conditions of this licence and
  28. if you fail to comply with them the rights granted to
  29. you under this licence, or any similar licence granted
  30. by the Licensor, will end automatically.
  31. Exemptions
  32. This licence does not cover the use of:
  33. * personal data in the information;
  34. * information that has neither been published nor disclosed
  35. under information access legislation (including the
  36. Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or
  37. with the consent of the Licensor;
  38. * the Royal Arms and the Crowned Portcullis;
  39. * third party rights the Licensor is not authorised to license;
  40. * information subject to other intellectual property rights,
  41. including patents, trademarks, and design rights
  42. Non-endorsment
  43. This licence does not grant you any right to use the
  44. information in a way that suggests any official status or
  45. that the Licensor endorses you or your use of the Information.
  46. No warranty
  47. The information is licensed ‘as is’ and the
  48. Licensor excludes all representations, warranties,
  49. obligations and liabilities in relation to the
  50. information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
  51. The Licensor is not liable for any errors or omissions in
  52. the information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury
  53. or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Licensor does
  54. not guarantee the continued supply of the information.
  55. Governing law
  56. This licence is governed by the laws of England and Wales.
  57. Definitions
  58. In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:
  59. ‘Information’ means information protected by copyright
  60. or by database right (for example, literary and
  61. artistic works, content, data and source code)
  62. offered for use under the terms of this licence.
  63. ‘Information Provider’ means either House of Parliament.
  64. ‘Licensor’ means—
  65. (a) in relation to copyright, the Speaker of the House of
  66. Commons and the Clerk of the Parliaments representing
  67. the House of Commons and House of Lords respectively, and
  68. (b) in relation to database right, the Corporate
  69. Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate
  70. Officer of the House of Lords respectively.
  71. ‘Use’ means doing any act which is restricted by copyright
  72. or database right, whether in the original medium or in any
  73. other medium, and includes without limitation distributing,
  74. copying, adapting and modifying as may be technically
  75. necessary to use it in a different mode or format.
  76. ‘You’ means the natural or legal person, or body of persons
  77. corporate or incorporate, acquiring rights under this licence.
  78. About the Open Parliament Licence
  79. This is version 3.0 of the Open Parliament Licence. The
  80. Licensor may, from time to time, issue new versions of the
  81. Open Parliament Licence. However, you may continue to use
  82. information licensed under this version should you wish to do so.
  83. The information licensed under the Open Parliament
  84. Licence includes Parliamentary information in which
  85. Crown copyright subsists. Further context, best practice
  86. and guidance relating to the re-use of public sector
  87. information can be found in the UK Government Licensing
  88. Framework section on The National Archives website.