Legal Notices

Introduction

This website is operated by the Research and Development department of the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the United Kingdom and Ireland comprising Trinity House, the Commissioners of Irish Lights and the Commissioners of Northern Lights operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board.

Terms of Use

By using this website you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use this website.

The Terms of Use may be updated at any time without notice. You should check this page from time to time to review the current Terms of Use. Specific legal notices or terms may be located on particular pages of this website and are in addition these Terms of Use. Connected GLA websites that can be accessed via links from this website are also subject to separate terms and conditions.

Access to Website

You will be able to access most of this website without registering your details. However certain areas of the website are only open to you if you are a registered user.

We endeavour to ensure that access to this website is available at all times. However, from time to time, access to some parts of the website or the entire website may be suspended or restricted without notice. The GLAs will not be liable if for any reason the website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

If you choose or are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise stated the GLAs are the owners or the licensees of the copyright or other intellectual property rights in the website and materials on it including without limitation text, illustrations, logos, photographs, graphics or video or audio sequences.

You are permitted to print and download extracts from this website for your own personal use or for internal business purposes only provided that you do 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, logos, photographs, graphics, video or audio sequences separately from any accompanying text. The copyright or other intellectual property rights in such materials must be accredited to the GLAS or the relevant licensor as appropriate at all times.

You must not use any part of the materials on this website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from the GLAs or the licensors.

Except as permitted above you must not copy, store in any medium, distribute, transmit, broadcast or show in public any part of this website without the prior consent of the GLAs.

All rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Use are reserved.

Our liability

The material displayed on this website is provided “as is” for information purposes only and your use of this website and information in it is entirely at your own risk. You assume full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from the use of this website or information in it.

This website is intended to provide general information only and cannot be guaranteed to be error free. Information on a particular subject is not exhaustive treatment of that subject. Accordingly, the information on this website is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

The GLAs and associated third parties give no warranties of any kind either express or implied in respect of the website and, to the extent permitted by law, expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, title, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with this website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of this website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

If any of the foregoing is not fully enforceable for any reason the remainder shall nonetheless continue to apply.

Links to our website

If you wish to link to our website please address your request to enquiries@gla-rad.org.

Links from our website

Certain links in this website may lead to other websites, resources or information that are provided and maintained by third parties over whom the GLAs have no control. We accept no responsibility for the content, availability or accuracy of any links or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Privacy statement and data protection

The Research and Development department (GRAD) is not a legal entity in itself. It works on behalf of, and reports to, all three of the General Lighthouse Authorities that cover the United Kingdom and Ireland, and some associated territories: that is Trinity House (for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar), the Northern Lighthouse Board (for Scotland and the Isle of Man) and the Commissioners of Irish Lights (for the whole of the island or Ireland). Trinity House provides the legal framework within which GRAD works: as such the legal notices provided by Trinity House also cover GRAD. These notices [including the Website Privacy Notice] can be found here.

Collection and use of technical information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by us for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

• The IP address of the visitor’s web server
• The top-level domain name used (for example: .com, .org, .net)
• Click stream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
• The type of web browser used by the website visitor.

The GLAs will make no attempt to identify individual visitors from the technical details listed above or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. The GLAs will not disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless obliged to disclose such information by law. The technical information will be used only by the GLAs and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which the GLAs cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection legislation in force in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

General

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.