This section contains legal information about the use of this website. It forms the terms and conditions under which you may use and link to this website. Note that, by using this website, you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by these terms and conditions.
These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review them regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use this website after it has been posted. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, please cease using this website.
For the purposes of this information, ‘content’ means material including, without limitation, text, graphics, video and audio material, published on this website.
Information, editorial, advertising, products and services provided by us is provided on the basis that we disclaim all warranties whether express or implied.
We shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss of business profits or special damages.
This site is hosted, designed, maintained and managed by Durham County Council. If you have any queries about this legal information, please contact webadmin@durham.gov.uk.
Copyright
Copyright relating to databases and navigational graphics, including branding and logo(s) belongs to Durham County Council, all rights reserved. All other text and images (content) is copyright protected Durham County Council.
It is unlawful to duplicate or distribute content from this site without written permission, except as detailed below:
- You may use the content contained in this website for reproduction in connection with presentations, reports, printed material, and other similar uses which are publicly distributed or displayed free of charge, including advertisements, posters, catalogues, brochures, and leaflets. You may also publicly display or demonstrate the website in unaltered form on a computer.
- You may not resell, sub-license or distribute any of the content in any form. Neither may you include the content in any materials that are offered for sale, except in the case of advertisements with publications for which a cover price is payable.
- You may not modify, distort, mutilate or alter the content. Nor may you use it in any manner which could be interpreted as suggesting the endorsement or association of any product or service in connection with pornographic, illegal or immoral materials or purposes.
- You may not copy or adapt the code used to create this website. Nor may you attempt to decipher, de-compile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the website.
- Logos are available for use on publicity material produced by members of our staff, and to other organisations who request permission.
Please credit any content used from this site describing the associated copyright holder. Should you require further copyright information on a particular aspect of this site please contact webadmin@durham.gov.uk for further details.
Removal of copyrighted materials
Should our Website Administrator contact you to remove our materials from your site, you must do so immediately.
Disclaimer
Please note that links to other sites are monitored but we cannot be held responsible for information contained in them. We provide the links for your own convenience and we do not endorse the content. Please refer to individual websites for more information on their own legal statements.
Every effort is made to ensure that all the material on this site is up to date and accurate. However, Durham County Council does not guarantee the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of this website or the content. Changes are periodically made to the website and may be made at any time. We cannot accept any liability, nor in any other way be held responsible, for any damage, disruption or corruption of any user's computer software, hardware or network which may arise as a result of the viewing of this website or its contents.
Although Durham County Council aims to provide constant, uninterrupted access to this website, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.
Unless stated otherwise (for example; that you are viewing information over a secure connection) information transmitted over the internet is not secure and we cannot accept responsibility for misuse of information intercepted in this way.
Linking to our site
We encourage users to establish hypertext links to the site.
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on our website. We do not object to you linking directly to our information. Please be aware that changes to pages and content may cause broken links. In order to avoid this, you may instead wish to link to our homepage.
Association
You should not seek to associate us with your site or any other content. Nor should you suggest any endorsement or approval by Durham County Council of you, your website or any non Durham County Council product or content.
Framing and context
We do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. Our pages must load into a user's entire window. Nor should you insert any graphic into, or play audio content over our content, nor allow a pop-up to appear simultaneously with our content.
Restrictions
We do not permit a website to link to this site if it contains material which is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or is in any way a breach of the laws of England and Wales or infringes any third party intellectual property rights.
Removal of links
If our Website Administrator contacts you to remove your links to our site, you must do so immediately.
Privacy notices and data protection
Personal information that you send to the Gala through this website, or through any other means will be treated as follows:
Further information about Durham County Council’s privacy policies are available at http://www.durham.gov.uk/dataprivacy.