Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions
1. Any contact details you give us will be securely held by the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We will only hold and process your information for the purposes stated.
2. Whilst the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills takes every care to ensure that the materials, information and data (together the 'Materials') provided on this site (the 'Website') are accurate and up-to-date, we must emphasise that the Materials are provided 'as is' and without warranty or guarantee of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, or whether relating to title, the rights of third parties or otherwise.
3. The Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills reserve the right, at its absolute discretion, to add, revise or remove any Materials without notice.
4. The Materials are designed for outline guidance and general information purposes only and the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills assume no responsibility for information contained in the Website and disclaims all liability in respect of such information.
5. The Materials are protected by copyright and all other rights (if any) are reserved.
6. Permanent copying and or storage of all or part of the Materials or reproduction or incorporation of all or any part of the Materials in any other work or publication, whether paper or electronic media or other form, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills.
7. On occasion the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills allows limited reproduction of some of its text and images, where:
- We have granted explicit permission
- This is in-line with our organisational objective
- No commercial benefit will be gained
- The content is used in a manner congruent with our aims
- Text and images are shown as being reprinted with our permission and with our copyright.
Other conditions also apply. These can be found on the consent form available to download below. This form must be completed, and our written consent gained, prior to reproduction of any of the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills content, with the sole exception of section 7 below.
Website content consent form (PDF, 50Kb)
8. Notwithstanding section 5 and 6 above, you may copy small sections (in any event not more than five pages) of the Materials for personal use and recopy to individual third parties for their personal information provided that (i) you acknowledge the Website as the source of the Materials (ii) such an acknowledgement and suitable reference to the Design Council is made in the copy of the Materials and (iii) you inform the third party that they are subject to and must comply with the conditions of this Website. This permission is, however, revocable at any time by the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills.
9. The Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills make no warranty that the Materials are free of infection by computer viruses or other contamination. The downloading of any of the Materials is at the individual user's own risk and the user will be solely responsible for any damage or loss, whether suffered by the user or a third party in consequence of the user's actions, which results from a download and/or use of any such Materials.
10. The Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills are not responsible for any content of any other website accessible from the Website, nor does it endorse or in any respect warrant any third party products or services by virtue of any information, material or content referred to or included on, or linked from or to the Website.
11. The host server for the Website is located in England, and the applicable law in respect of the Website shall be the laws of England and Wales only.
