Legal information

This page contains legal information pertaining to the use of the Durham County Council website.

Copyright

This website contains text and images (content) which is copyright protected by Durham County Council, all rights are reserved. Please note that it is unlawful to duplicate or distribute any element of this site, 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, 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.

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 us for further details.

The Durham County Council Logo

The Durham County Council logo is available for use on publicity material produced by members of DCC, and to other organisations who request permission. A small 'web-ready' version of the logo is available on our page about linking to the DCC website.

Disclaimer

This website is owned by the Durham County Council and links to a wide range of information and services.

Please note that links to other sites are monitored but we cannot be held responsible for information contained in other sites. We provide the links for your own convenience and 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.

Durham County Council does not claim ownership of content submitted or made available to the publicly accessible areas on the website. i.e. those areas on the website accessible to the general public. (for example; message boards, postings, etc) Although Durham County Council takes reasonable care to ensure that inappropriate material is not published, and once alerted to such material will take steps to resolve the situation, Durham County Council assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any publicly accessible areas nor for any error or omission contained in any information published by users in these areas.

Privacy

Information which you send to Durham County Council through this website, either by email or through electronic forms, will be treated as follows:

We will keep information no longer than we reasonably believe is necessary.
We will use information only for the purpose for which you sent it.
We may use information for statistical analysis but in such a way that your identity will not be involved.

You will not receive unsolicited paper or electronic mail from us as a result of using an electronic form unless we explicitly ask for and get your permission. We will not pass on your email address or any of your personal details to other organisations.

All emails and any associated attachments received by Durham County Council will be electronically intercepted and examined for viruses etc. This is purely routine and any delay will be kept to a minimum.

If You Are under 16

Please get permission from a parent or guardian before using our website. We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example; your home address, telephone or email details).

How We use Cookies

We do not use cookies on this website for the collection of personal data, however temporary cookies are used by the website statistics package to log you into the system, also on the Quick Poll so that you can only vote once, and on our exit survey. If you have any queries about this please contact us for help and advice.

This policy applies to the Durham County Council website but not to sites to which we provide links.

Terms/Conditions

This site is designed and maintained by Durham County Council.

Whilst Durham County Council endeavours to ensure that information contained within the website is up to date and correct, the Council accepts no liability for error or omission howsoever caused and whether by the negligence or omissions of Durham County Council or otherwise.

Information, editorial, advertising, products and services provided by Durham County Council are provided on the basis that Durham County disclaims all warranties whether express or implied.

Neither Durham County Council nor the suppliers of information shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss of business profits or special damages.

Durham County Council is not responsible for the content of any web sites which this site provides links to.