Site Terms and Conditions
WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
Welcome to the Unlocking the Archives website ('this site'). This site is operated by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) of 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR, United Kingdom ('we', 'us', 'our'). For our other contact details, please see our contacts page.
Thank you for reviewing our terms of use ('terms'). Please note these terms contain terms (highlighted in blue) which exclude or limit our legal liability to you. If you do not agree to these terms, you should not use this site.
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE
Copyright. The copyright and other intellectual property rights in all content included on this site is either owned by us or licensed to us. You may use the material on this web site for your own private study, non-commercial research, and non-commercial instructional or educational purposes (including use on an educational intranet restricted to authenticated users).
You may not use any content on this site for any other purpose without our prior written consent. Examples of prohibited use include (without limitation):
- reproducing any content for commercial purposes; or
- inclusion of any content on any other website (whether commercial or not).
All rights enquiries should be directed to our Picture Library at pictures@rgs.org (telephone 0207 5913060).
Other People's Rights. You must not use this site to transmit or upload or otherwise publish:
- any material that is defamatory, abusive, obscene, of a harassing nature or in any other way offensive; or
- material that infringes anyone else's copyright or other intellectual property rights, or that infringes any right of privacy, confidentiality or legal privilege.
Misuse of site. You agree not to use any mechanism, device, software, script or routine to affect the proper functioning of the site. You agree not take any action that places an unreasonable burden or excessive load on our system(s). You agree not to infect the site with any computer programming routine (e.g., any virus, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or trojan horse) that may damage, interfere with, delay, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
Linking to our site. You do not need our permission to link directly to pages on this site. However:
- pages from this site must load into the user's entire window without being "framed" in any way by other content;
- you may not incorporate content (for example, an individual image) into any page on your website without our prior written consent; and
- please email us at uta@rgs.org to inform us of a new link.
OUR LIABILITY TO YOU
Links to third party sites. Any links to third party websites are provided to you only as a convenience. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of that website, and we are not liable for the content of any site to which we link.
Copyright. Every effort has been made to locate copyright holders of material included on this website in order to obtain their permission to publish it. However, if you believe any material is being used in breach of copyright, please contact the Royal Geographical Society Picture Library (email: pictures@rgs.org, telephone 0207 5913060) with details.
Accuracy of content. We take reasonable care to ensure that the information appearing on this site is accurate and up-to-date. However, errors and omissions do occur, and you should not take the accuracy of the information for granted, but should check directly with us using the contact details provided on this site. None of the material contained in this site is to be relied upon as a statement or representation of fact.
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
This site is provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from use of this site, except death or personal injury to the extent this is caused by our negligence. Examples of loss or damage for which we are not liable include (but are not limited to) any loss or damage resulting from:
- your reliance on or use of any information or material obtained either directly or indirectly from the use of this site;
- the transmission, reception or use by any person of information by about or to you;
- any inaccuracies in any information on this site; or
- the unavailability of this site.
OTHER TERMS
Changes to these terms. We reserve the right to change these terms at any time. The terms displayed on the site when you visit will be the terms that apply to you for that visit.
Governing Law. Any dispute or claim concerning or arising from this website is to be determined in accordance with the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales are to have exclusive jurisdiction in determining such disputes or claims.
