Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions for your use of this website, including copyright information and link policy.

Accuracy

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) makes every effort to ensure that the information published on this website is accurate. However, the Ministry cannot accept any liability for the accuracy of content. Visitors who rely on this information do so at their own risk.

Copyright

© Crown copyright. The material featured on this site is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. The Crown copyright protected material (other than logos and images) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged.

Any enquiries regarding the use and re-use of this information resource should be sent to marketing@communities.gov.uk

The permission to reproduce Crown protected material does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

The video material featured on our website and our YouTube channel is subject to Crown copyright.

Linking policy

Hyperlinks to us

We encourage users to establish hypertext links to the site. You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on our website. We do not object to you linking directly to our information. However, we do not permit the use of our logos as promotional or hypertext objects.

Hyperlinks from us

We are not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked websites and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. 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 the linked pages.

Virus protection

While we make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production, it is always wise for users to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet.

We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material from this website.