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The Royal Navy Research Archive website is a not for profit historical resource for your personal viewing and use. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance of these Terms of Use, which take effect from the date of first use. The Royal Navy Research Archive makes all the content available on this website free of charge to users under the following conditions:

 

Permitted

1. You may use the content solely for your own private study, research, and instructional or educational purposes, either as printed copies or by downloading on to your personal computer.

&2. The licence granted to you to reproduce content permits the incorporation of material from the web site, with due acknowledgement of the copyright holder and The Royal Navy Research Archive, into any non-commercial, personal research, instructional or presentational compilation for private or educational use, whether in hard copy or electronic or any other form. This includes use on an educational intranet restricted to non-commercial users.

Not permitted

1. Without the written permission of the relevant copyright holder, no part of these web pages may be published in any medium or transmitted to, or stored in, any publicly accessible website or other form of electronic retrieval system, nor accessed in such a manner as to make them appear part of any third party's web site or electronic database or retrieval system.

2. The names, marks and logos identifying the Royal Navy Research Archive, or third parties are proprietary marks of these organisations and may not be reproduced without their prior written permission.

Hyper linking Policy

Hyper linking to the Royal Navy Research Archive: You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to your 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. The Royal Navy Research Archive pages must load into the user's entire window.

Hyper linking from the Royal Navy Research Archive: We are not responsible for the content or reliability of any 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.

Virus Protection Awareness

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 any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material downloaded from this website.
 

Disclaimer

Quality & Fitness for Purpose: the content of this web site is provided for information purposes only. Whilst every care has been taken in its preparation, the Royal Navy Research Archive website and material relating 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 accuracy, reliability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. Site visitors who rely on this information do so at their own risk.

Copyright: Every effort has been made to locate copyright holders of material included on this website in order to obtain their permission to publish it. However, if any visitor considers material to be their copyright, please email info@royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk- with details together with any supporting documents.

Data Protection: By its nature, this web site contains a large amount of personal information. It is our prime concern to ensure that we operate within the confines of the Data Protection Act. If you feel any of the data on this site causes or is likely to cause substantial damage or distress to you or any other living person, please contact us - info@royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk - with specific details. Please see the privacy statement for further information. Service: we do not warrant that the functionality of this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, and reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Royal Navy Research Archive website.

Links: The Royal Navy Research Archive is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked web sites and does 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.

Endorsement: The Royal Navy Research Archive does not necessarily endorse the views of those people submitting material for publication on the website
 

Personal Contributions to the Royal Navy Research Archive

1. The Royal Navy Research Archive is under no obligation to publish any text or photos submitted to the site.
2. The editors may alter the text of material accepted for publication for the sake of clarity, without the author being notified.
3. Digital versions of images submitted with the story may need to be cropped by the editors to facilitate the creation of thumbnails. This cropping will be done with sensitivity to the subject of the image.
4. The Royal Navy Research Archive reserves the right to reject material on the grounds of copyright infringement, offensiveness or other legal considerations.
5. The Royal Navy Research Archive cannot accept contributions of a commercial, marketing or advertising nature. We will, however, accept editorial content from commercial organisations (for example, the memories of a shop owner).
 

The Royal Navy Research Archive is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License

 

GENERAL

Unauthorised attempts to deny service upload information, change information, or to attempt to access non-public data from this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable to the full extent of the laws of England and Wales. 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. Please note that the site guidelines on copyright or data protection issues do not constitute legal advice.

Privacy statement

Personal information

No personal information supplied to t the Royal Navy Research Archive website will be given to any other organisation without your explicit permission. E-mail address and other personal details will only be used to contact you about matters specific to this website. It will not be supplied to third parties and is not displayed on the site.

Use of cookies: The Royal Navy Research Archive site does not require cookies to be accepted during normal browsing. We do not use cookies for storing information about you or your usage of the site.

Web site tracking: Whenever you visit our web site, our host server automatically records each page you visit and the IP address from which you are connecting to us. It also records other information, including your operating system, your web browser, and the web site from which you followed a link to the Royal Navy Research Archive (if any). This information is only gathered to establish general usage trends for the site, not to find out information about individual users.

Other sites: This site may contain links to other sites which are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. If you access these sites using the links provided, the operators of the sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy.



 

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