Museum Online Collection terms and conditions

This web page provides South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Museum Collections Navigator User Terms and Conditions.

Copyright of Content

What is copyright?

literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works
sound recordings, broadcasts, films and cable programmes
typographical arrangement of published editions

rights to control the ways in which their material may be used. Copyright usually lasts 70 years from the end of the year in which the creator of the work died, but this can vary in some cases. If you require further information you are advised to refer to the Intellectual Property Office website www.ipo.gov.uk or seek independent legal advice.

Copyright is one of several Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) and is subject to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and various European Union legislation. Other IPRs include patents, trade marks and designs.

The material (referred to as the Content) – photographs, images and illustrations (such as paintings, watercolours, prints), maps and plans (including technical drawings), diagrams, newspaper extracts, manuscripts, 3D objects, sound and video recordings, graphics, artwork, text, animation and research information - contained in this website is protected by copyright laws. Unless otherwise stated all Content shown on this website is the copyright of South Lanarkshire Council (“the Council”).

Anyone republishing Content from this website without permission is liable for any resulting infringement of copyright and the Council reserves the right to enforce its rights in such manner as it decides is appropriate.

We have made every effort to locate copyright holders of materials included on this website in order to obtain their permission to publish it. All known copyright owners for this website are identified.

Moral rights

It is the policy of this website and the moral right of an author to be identified as the author of his or her own work. On this website the author is always identified, if known.

Use of Collections Navigator

General

We want you to enjoy having access to and use of this website and related Council or South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Ltd websites.

This access is provided subject to the following terms and conditions. Please read these terms and conditions carefully as your access to and use of Collections Navigator will be deemed as acceptance. Unauthorised attempts to deny service, upload information, change information or attempts to access non public data from this service are strictly prohibited.

Internet websites normally qualify for copyright protection and database right protection. Each individual page is considered as a broadcast. In addition, any attempt to mount this material on another website will be considered an act of communicating the content to the public without consent. This will infringe the Right of Communication to the Public. Database right will also be an issue as the site itself constitutes a database regardless of the status of the individual items included in it.

Copyright in a broadcast web page covers the signal sent, whereas copyright and database right cover the contents, so copyright would be infringed by:

copying of screen pages onto a computer
photographing multiple pages from the screen
showing screen pages in public to a paying audience
including screen pages on another website

Please note: this list is not exhaustive and you should be aware that there may be other ways of infringing copyright.

Permitted use

Collections Navigator is here for you. Access and use of this website is permitted for personal and / or educational use or non-commercial purposes only.

The following uses of Content from this site are encouraged:

Access and download the Content and storing a copy on a temporary basis for the sole purpose of viewing the Content without alteration or addition.
The printing of any Content (other than where copyright is not held by the Council) in whole or in part provided that such reproduction is to be used only for personal and educational purposes.

Please see the SLLC’s Due Diligence and Intellectual Property Rights Policy for more information about copyright, or contact the Museums Service on lowparksmuseum@southlanarkshireleisure.co.uk for enquiries about the museum collections or to request a copy of the policy.

Non-permitted use

Other than the Content expressly permitted by these terms of use, you cannot copy, reproduce, publish, republish, post, transmit, modify, adapt, translate, manipulate, add to, delete from, adapt, distribute or otherwise use any Content in whole or in part, in any medium without prior written permission from the Council or the relevant copyright holder. In addition, users cannot reproduce Content (or any part of it) without any identification mark or other mark of origin relating to the Content.

No Content or part of Content, may be permanently copied or reproduced in any form or reproduced on any other system or website, or stored in or transmitted to or from any other electronic or digital form.

You must not, without the prior written permission of South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture acting on licence from South Lanarkshire Council:

copy, download, reproduce, publish post, transmit, or distribute material from the Collections Navigator (the Content) in any kind of medium for commercial purposes.
extract from, manipulate, alter or modify the material in any way.
interfere with any copyright notice originally attached to the material.
store the material in any medium including extraction into any other database, computer programme or website.
publicly broadcast, display, or present the material.
rent, lease or lend the material.
commercially publish or exploit the material in any manner.

Photographic images reproduction, publication and copyright

Purchasing a copy image. The Council reserves the copyright and publication rights in all images supplied and grants copyright licence to SLLC. Permission and payment for reproduction covers specified single use only. Additional use of the image will require a new application.

Photographic material must be used as supplied. Images should not be manipulated, cropped, digitised or have text superimposed without our prior consent. It is a breach of the conditions to make copy negatives or prints or to pass material to a third party.

All images reproduced in publications or other material must have prior written consent and be acknowledged ‘© by permission of South Lanarkshire Council’.

Applicants are required to sign our photographic agreement forms, clearly stating the intended use of the image. Any breach of the agreement may be a breach of copyright. For photographic enquiries please contact us on: museumresearch@southlanarkshireleisure.co.uk.

Third party copyright

From time to time the Content of this website may include third party materials for which the copyright is not owned by the Council. You are not permitted to store in any permanent form any items which state that copyright is not held by the Council.

Hyperlinking policy

You do not have to ask permission to link to this website as long as it is a link directly to our home page. However, if linking to this website you are required to direct users to read and understand the conditions of use information on this website before entering this website.

The Collections Navigator home page must load in its entirety within a frame on your site. The loading of partial pages into frames on your site is strictly prohibited.

SLLC does not sponsor, endorse or otherwise approve of any information or statements appearing in any website which may be linked to Collections Navigator (nor in sites referred to in or linked to such websites). Listings should not be taken as endorsement of any kind.

SLLC is not responsible for the content or reliability of linked websites and cannot guarantee that these links will work at all times and has no control over the availability of linked pages.

SLLC reserves the right to require the removal of any link it deems inappropriate and established by a third party between the website and any third party website. The decision as to whether a link is inappropriate and the timescales for the removal of the link shall be at the absolute discretion of SLLC and the user shall comply with all directions in relation to this.

Disclaimer

The Content included on this website has been compiled by SLLC’s Museum Service and is subject to change without notice. Although every effort will be made to contact the copyright holders of materials included on this website. If visitors consider materials to be their copyright and have not been contacted by SLLC’s Museum Service, please get in touch with us using the contact details page on this website.

Collections Navigator is provided for historical, educational and research information purposes only and this website and its content are made available "as is" and "as available".

SLLC shall not be liable for any damage to your computer equipment or software which may occur on account of your access to or use of this website, or your downloading of materials, data, text, or images from the web site, whether caused by a virus, bug or otherwise.

SLLC takes steps to prevent computer viruses from being transmitted via electronic mail attachments. We cannot guarantee that attachments do not contain computer virus code.

SLLC does not warrant:

that the information selected for this website is comprehensive, complete, verified, organized or accurate.
that it is licensed by the copyright owner of any third party Content to include or reproduce such Content in this website.
that this website or its Content will be uninterrupted or error-free.
that the server from which this website is available is free of viruses or bugs.

Limitation of Liability

SLLC shall not be liable for:

any losses or damages whatsoever arising from the content or use of this website.
any losses or damages whatsoever arising from the operation or content of third party websites.

For the purposes of this notice, SLLC shall include its departments, employees, partners, principals, agents and representatives and any third-party providers or sources of information or data.

Information on this website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors which we have tried our best to avoid. The information contained on this website may be changed at any time without prior notification or obligation. Please note that these terms and conditions may be updated by us from time to time. By browsing this website you accept that you are bound by the current legal and disclaimer notices and it is, therefore, recommended that you check these each time you re-visit this site.

Privacy statement

The Council and SLLC are required to comply with the Data Protection Act Scotland 2018. The personal information we collect, e.g. object donor information, is information that users have given voluntarily and the Council and SLLC shall comply with DPA in relation to the personal data (as defined in the DPA) collected and the Museums Association Code of Ethics.

We have software on this website that collects statistics from IP data to determine what times of day people access our site, which country they access this from, how long they visit the site for etc. It is our policy not to pass this information on to any third party. However there may be occasions when we are required to disclose this information in order to comply with the DPA and/or other statutes to third parties including, but not limited to, government agencies. By browsing this website you accept that this information may be disclosed by SLLC without obtaining your prior consent.

If you feel any of the data on this site has caused or is likely to cause substantial damage or distress to you or any other living person, please contact us at the address given on this website.