Terms of Use

Our Terms of Use are as follows:

1. Access to and use of Crown Copyright content made available on innovate.direct.gov.uk is subject to these Terms of Use and the Directgov Privacy Policy.

2. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of, this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this site.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting via this website any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, offensive or scandalous material, or any material that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, likely to give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violates any law. We will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order lawfully requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials on this website

We reserve the right to remove any comment or application from this site which infringes these terms of use.

3. Regarding use of RSS and APIs on innovate.direct.gov.uk:
You are free to:

  • Reuse the information provided by the RSS feeds and APIs
  • Share your application or ideas with anyone

You must:

  • Re-use the information accurately
  • Acknowledge the source of the information. You can do this by by saying on your service “supported by innovate.direct.gov.uk”
  • Not re-use the information in a deliberately misleading way
  • Not re-use the information for promotion or advertising purposes
  • Not imply endorsement by Directgov, another government department or other public sector organisation
  • Not mimic the style and appearance of the original information, for example by replicating the look of innovate.direct.gov.uk or www.direct.gov.uk

    • 3. If you have any questions about use of innovate.direct.gov.uk, take a look at the innovate.direct.gov.uk FAQs to see if your question has already been answered.

    4. If you are under 16:

    • Please get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in innovate.direct.gov.uk.
    • Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

    5. Directgov may edit, amend or change the content that appears on the innovate.direct.gov.uk site at any time at its discretion. Directgov also reserves the right to modify or discontinue the innovate.direct.gov.uk site at any time.

    6. Directgov may alter these Terms of Use at any time by posting changes online. Please review these Terms of Use regularly to ensure that you are aware of any recent changes made by Directgov. Your continued use of innovate.direct.gov.uk after changes are posted shall indicate your agreement to adhere to and be bound by the Terms of Use and the Directgov Privacy Policy as amended or updated from time to time.

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