Non-Commercial Licence (and Crown Copyright Licence)
Scope
You are encouraged to Use:
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Content in which Royal Armouries owns the IPR; and
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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:
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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
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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'
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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:
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any personal data within the Content
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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
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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
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Third Party IPR (other than Our Crown Copyright Content) which the Royal Armouries is not authorised to license
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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
© Royal Armouries
Non-Commercial 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.
Scope
This licence applies to information that is the copyright of the Board of Trustees of the Armouries.
Using information under this licence
Use of copyright and database right material expressly 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 for Non-Commercial purposes only 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:
- copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
- adapt the Information;
- combine the Information with other information.
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.
You must, where you do any of the above:
- acknowledge the source of the Information by including the attribution © Royal Armouries and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;
- ensure that any onward licensing of the Information – for example when combined with other information – is for Non-Commercial purposes only;
- ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Royal Armouries endorses you or your use of the Information;
- ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or its source;
- ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with them or use the information other than for Non-Commercial purposes 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:
- personal data in the Information;
- 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 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;
- third party rights the Royal Armouries is not authorised to license;
- Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; and
- identity documents such as the British Passport.
No warranty
The Information is licensed ‘as is’ and the Royal Armouries excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
The Royal Armouries 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 Royal Armouries does not guarantee the continued supply of the Information.
Governing Law
This licence is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, unless otherwise.
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.
‘Licensor’ means any Information Provider which has the authority to offer Information under the terms of this licence.
‘Non-Commercial purposes’ means not intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. For the purposes of this licence, ‘private monetary compensation’ does not include the exchange of the Information for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of the Information.
‘Use’ as a verb, 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, 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 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 Information 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.
