Legal & Credits

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Terms of Website Use

Intellectual property rights

University College Oxford is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights on our site and in the material published on it; these are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

Without prejudice to the generality of the above paragraph, the trademarks, logos and service marks (collectively the Trademarks) displayed on our site are the registered or unregistered trademarks of the College or third parties.

Page headers, graphics, icons and scripts are the College’s intellectual property and together with the Trademarks may not be copied, used or imitated in any way without the prior written consent of the College. Nothing contained on our site should be constructed as granting, by implication, or otherwise, any licence or right to use any of the Trademarks or other material displayed on our site without the College’s express written permission or that of the relevant third party. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on our site, or any other content on our site is strictly prohibited.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, or any pages from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others to material posted on our site. Images and graphics may not be downloaded separately from the page in which they are presented in context.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or contents of our site without our permission.

College’s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

Reliance on information posted

Our site is intended to be for general information only and an indication of the services that the College may be able to provide. Information, commentary or other materials posted on our site is not intended to amount to advice or representations on which reliance should be placed. Although the College makes reasonable efforts to update the information on our site we make no guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We cannot guarantee that our site will be free from bugs or viruses.

Linking to our site

You may link to any of our pages, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw any linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in the terms of use. If you wish to make any use of material on our site please address your request to Communications@univ.ox.ac.uk

Links from our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Variations

We may amend these terms of use at any time. You are expected to check these terms of use from time to time to take notice of any changes we have made. Some of the provisions in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.