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Access to and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you
of these Terms and Conditions that take effect from the date of
first use.
Disclaimer
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products and services (or to third party information, products and
services), is provided 'as is', without any representation or
endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express
or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of
satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose,
non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
Intellectual Property
The names, images and logos identifying HSE are proprietary
marks of the Health and Safety Executive. Copying of our logos
and/or any other third party logos accessed via this website is not
permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright
owner.
Requests for permission to use our logo should be directed to
The Licensing Manager (see below for contact details). Tell us how
and why you wish to use our logo. Please include your contact
details: name, address, telephone number, fax number and email.
Copyright
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The material featured on this website is subject to Crown
copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. You may use and
re-use the material featured on this website (not including logos
or images) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms
of the Open Government
Licence. For further information or to enquire about licensing
any other HSE material please contact:
salescontracts@hse.gov.uk or write to: The Licensing Manager,
Room C.1.17, HSE Science and Research Centre, Harpur Hill, Buxton,
Derbyshire, SK17 9JN.
Where we have identified any third party copyright material you
will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders
concerned.
Hyperlinking Policy
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages
hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to
the information that is hosted on our site. However, we do not
permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. HSE pages
must load into the user's entire window.
Where we link to other websites, we are not responsible for the
content or reliability of these linked websites. Listing should not
be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these
links will work all of the time and we have no control over the
availability of linked pages.
Privacy
If you are a user with general public and anonymous access, this
website does not store or capture personal information, but merely
logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the
web server. The system will record your email address and other
information only if volunteered to us by you (e.g. by completion of
a form field, etc.). This shall be treated as proprietary and
confidential. It may be used for internal review and to notify you
about updates to the website or products/services.
This privacy statement only covers the HSE website at
solutions.hse.gov.uk and www.hsl.gov.uk (they are the same
site). This statement does not cover links within this site to
other websites.
Virus Protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of
production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program
on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept
responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or
your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived
from this website.