2007
Notice for the supply of Environment Agency information
(Standard Notice, Non-commercial)
1. Nothing in this notice will in any way restrict your statutory or any other rights of access to
the Information. If you wish to do anything in excess of those rights you may do so in
accordance with the following paragraphs only if you agree to all the terms.
2. All intellectual property rights in the documents, data or information supplied to you
(referred to as “the Information”) whether owned by the Environment Agency (referred to as
“Agency Information”) or third parties (referred to as "Third Party Information") will continue
to be owned by them.
3. The Information has not been prepared to meet your or anyone else's individual
requirements. It is your responsibility to ensure that the Information meets your needs.
4. The Environment Agency cannot ensure and therefore gives no promise that the
Information in its possession will always be accurate, complete, up to date or valid.
5. The Environment Agency will take reasonable precautions to ensure that we provide you
with an accurate copy of the Information from our records.
6. If we have specified that you must pay us for supply of the Information you must pay us
before we respond to your request. You will only be able to cancel and request your fee
back up to the point when we start work on providing the requested information.
7. If you have asked for the Information to be supplied in an electronic format we cannot
guarantee that either the disk or the data file is free of any defects and you should check it
for viruses and other items that may affect your computer.
8. Use of Third Party Information, including copying, must be limited to statutory rights. This
generally means that you will need to seek permission to copy. Third Party Information may
include information from our public registers which has been supplied to us by a third party,
for example the information provided in an application form.
Permitted use of Agency Information
9. You may use Agency Information for your own use provided that the use is not for or
related to any commercial, business, professional or other income generating activity, and
is not detrimental to the Environment Agency, its activities or the environment. For more
detail on what we regard as commercial please see the commercial re-use of information
pages on our website. This does not stop you from charging if you fall under the obligations
of the Freedom of Information Act and you are applying an authorised charge in response
to a request for information. As long as you comply with these restrictions you may:
• take copies (including taking text extracts) for use by yourself, provided that any extract
is a complete piece of information in its own right, is not taken out of context and is not
in any other way misleading (simple non-commercial internal use); or
• use or present Information (other than text extracts) in different ways e.g. by creating a
new table or diagram, provided that this is not misleading and not supplied to anyone
else (complex non-commercial internal use); or
• give copies to others or publish copies (including putting it on a website or distributing
multiple copies) provided you copy the Information exactly as it is (other than re-sizing,
typeface or file format). If the information is supplied to you in “GIS” or database
formats you may only put it on a website as a screen grab or fixed image. You must
either attach a copy of this notice and tell recipients that they must also comply with this
notice, or you must acknowledge the Environment Agency’s ownership of its
Information by adding the words "© Environment Agency copyright and/or database
right 20xx. All rights reserved” using the year you receive the data from us if we have
not indicated what year to use (simple non-commercial external use).
10. Please contact us if you need permission for any other use.
It is important that you also read any additional information or warning we give you
about specific Information.
Contact: [Environment Agency request email]
08708 506506
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