Legal

Disclaimer

This website is owned by Culture Durham which is a partnership of the following organisations: Durham County Council, County Durham Partnership, Visit County Durham, and Durham City Vision.

It links to a wide range of information. 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, Culture Durham 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 Culture Durham 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.

Culture Durham 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 Culture Durham takes reasonable care to ensure that inappropriate material is not published, and once alerted to such material will take steps to resolve the situation, Culture Durham 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.

Copyright

Copyright relating to databases and navigational graphics belongs to Culture Durham and all rights are reserved. It is unlawful to duplicate or distribute any element of this, without expressed written permission. All other text and images (content) is copyright protected Culture Durham.

It is unlawful to duplicate or distribute content from this site, except as detailed below:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. You may not copy or adapt the code used to create this website. Nor may you attempt to decipher, decompile, 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 our website administrator for further details.

Culture Durham logo

The Culture Durham logo is available for use on publicity material produced by members of the Culture Durham team, and to other organisations who request permission.

Removal of copyrighted materials

Should the Website Administrator contact you to remove our materials from your site, you must do so immediately.

Linking to our site

Culture Durham encourages users to establish hypertext links to the site.

You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on the Culture Durham website. We do not object to you linking directly to our information. Please be aware that changes to pages and content may cause broken links. In order to avoid this, you may instead wish to link to our homepage by using: http://www.culturedurham.com

Association

You should not seek to associate Culture Durham with your site or any non-Culture Durham content. Nor should you suggest any endorsement or approval by Culture Durham of you, your website or any non Culture Durham product or content.

Framing and context

We do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. Our pages must load into a user's entire window. Nor should you insert any graphic into, or play audio content over Durham City of Culture content, nor allow a pop-up to appear simultaneously with Culture Durham content.

Restrictions

We do not permit a website to link to Culture Durham if it contains material which is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or is in any way a breach of the laws of England and Wales or infringes any third party intellectual property rights.

Removal of links

If the website administrator contacts you to remove your links to Culture Durham, you must do so immediately.