Terms & Conditions
drdni.gov.uk is a government website owned, operated and managed by the Department for Regional Development, hereafter referred to as 'the Department'. Access to, and use of, this site is provided by the Department for your personal use only. Use of this site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions, which take effect immediately on your first use of the site. The Department reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for reviewing regularly information posted online to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes.
Intellectual Property
(This relates to creations of the mind: inventions (patents), literary works, symbols, names and images used in commerce.)
The names, images and logos identifying the Department are proprietary marks of the Department. Copying or use of the Department's logo and/or any other third party logos accessed via the Department's website is not permitted without prior approval from the Department or relevant copyright owner in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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The
material on this site is protected by Crown copyright, unless it says otherwise. The copyright in some
of the material which may be found on the site has been waived, meaning you can reproduce this material
freely. Categories of material for which copyright has been waived include: government press notices,
legislation and explanatory notes on the legislation, ministerial speeches, consultation documents,
documents featured on official websites (except where expressly indicated otherwise), headline statistics
and unpublished public records. More details of these and other categories can be found at HMSO's
website
For other types of material however, the supply of documents does not give the person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the documents in a way that would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public.
Brief extracts of any of the material included on this site may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news reporting.
The permission to reproduce Crown-protected material does not cover any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of another person or organisation. You must get permission to produce that material from the copyright holders. If in any doubt users should contact Her Majesty's Stationery Office in the first instance.
Details of the arrangements for reusing
Crown copyright material can be found on HMSO's website at: www.hmso.gov.uk/copyright/licences/click-use-home.htm
or by contacting Her Majesty's Stationery Office at:
Her
Majesty's Stationery Office
Licensing Division
St Clements House
2-16
Colegate
Norwich
NR3 1BQ
Tel: 01603 621000
Fax:
01603 723000
e-mail: HMSO Licensing
Logos
Copying or use of the Department's logo and/or other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the copyright owner. Requests for permission to use the Department's logo should be directed to the
Communications Officer
Department
for Regional Development
4th Floor
Clarence Court
10-18
Adelaide Street
Belfast
BT2 8GB
Tel:
028 9054 1055
Fax: 028 9054 0378
E-mail: enquiries@drdni.gov.uk
Tell us how and why you wish to use our logos. Please include your contact details as appropriate; name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail.
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Hyperlinking
- To us at drdni.gov.uk :- We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site and, therefore, you do not need to ask our permission to do so. However, we would prefer it if our pages were not to be loaded into frames on your site. The Department's web pages should load into the user's entire window. If you do wish to load pages within frames then please contact the webdevteam@drdni.gov.uk
- Portal owners:- If you wish to include Department for Regional Development web pages within a portal site then please contact the webdevteam@drdni.gov.uk. Please include your contact details name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail and a description of your portal site.
- From this website:- The links provided on this site are for your information and should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind. The Department accepts no responsibility in respect of your access to such websites or any material found on them . The Department cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.
Virus Protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.
Disclaimer
The Department's website, and material relating to government information, products and services (or third party information, products and services), are provided 'as is' without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that make it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Department for Regional Development's website.
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Northern Ireland. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Northern Ireland.