Non-Commercial Licence (and Crown Copyright Licence)

Scope

You are encouraged to Use:

• Content in which Royal Armouries owns the IPR; and
• Our Crown Copyright Content
  upon the following Terms and Conditions and when you make any Non-Commercial Use of Our Content, or make any Use of Our Crown Copyright, which is not otherwise permitted by law You will be deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions by Your conduct.

If You do not accept these Terms and Conditions please refrain from making any Non-Commercial Use of Our Content or any Use of Our Crown Copyright Content, which is not otherwise permitted by law.

These Terms and Conditions incorporate the definitions and other provisions set out in the main body of this Royal Armouries Website and Copyright Use Statement.

Your Non-Commercial Use Licence in respect of Our Content

Royal Armouries grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to make Non-Commercial Use only of the Content in which Royal Armouries owns the IPR subject to the conditions below. The Royal Armouries reserves the right to terminate this licence upon reasonable notice.

For the avoidance of doubt, where the Royal Armouries owns the IPR in any Content You are not permitted to exercise any of the rights granted to You by this licence in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation or gain.

Your Licence to Use Our Crown Copyright Content

Royal Armouries grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to make Commercial Use or Non-Commercial Use of Our Crown Copyright Content subject to the conditions below. The Royal Armouries reserves the right to terminate this licence upon reasonable notice.

The rest of this licence applies to your Non Commercial Use of Our Content and all use of Our Crown Copyright Content.

You must not do anything which is prohibited under the section of this document entitled "Restrictions on Your Use of Content".

You must , where You make any Non-Commercial Use of the Our Content or any Use of Our Crown Copyright Content:

• acknowledge the source of the Content by including an Attribution provided that if you are using Content from several rights owners and sources and therefore listing multiple attributions is not practical in your product or application, you may include a URL or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statements
• ensure that where Content is Used the source of the Content is also identified alongside the Attribution, e.g. ‘Title, Artist, Date of Work, Photo'
• ensure that any onward licensing of the Content - for example where You permit Your work which includes reference to Our Content or Our Crown Copyright Content alongside other Content to be Used by Third Parties - is also subject to these terms

These are important conditions of this licence and if You fail to comply with them or make Commercial Use of Our Content without Our prior written consent the rights granted to you under this licence will terminate automatically.

Exemptions

This licence to make Non-Commercial Use of Our Content and/or Commercial Use and Non Commercial use of Our Crown Copyright Content along with Our licence to make Commercial Use of Our Content does/will not cover the Use of:

• any personal data within the Content
• any information that has neither been published nor disclosed to You under information access legislation (including the FOI Regime) by or with the consent of the Royal Armouries
• departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests, military insignia and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset within Our Content
• Third Party IPR (other than Our Crown Copyright Content) which the Royal Armouries is not authorised to license
• identity documents such as the British Passport.

No warranty

The Content is licensed ‘as is' and the Royal Armouries excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Content to the maximum extent permitted by law.

The Royal Armouries is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Content (including errors or omissions resulting from Our negligence) and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its Use. The Royal Armouries does not guarantee the continued supply of Content.

Governing Law

This licence is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction of England & Wales.

About this Licence

The Royal Armouries has adapted this licence from the Non-Commercial Government Licence developed by the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationary Office. The Controller may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Non-Commercial Government Licence. However, You may continue to Use Content licensed under this version should you wish to do so.

Further context, best practice and guidance can be found in the UK Government Licensing Framework section on The National Archives Website