Terms and disclaimer

Copyright

All rights, including copyright and database right, in Barnet Council's website (the Website) and its contents, are owned by or licensed to Barnet Council, or otherwise used as permitted by applicable law.

In accessing the Website, you agree that you will access the contents solely for your own private use but not for any commercial or public use.

You can download and use the service on a single computer at a time and you can print out a single hard copy of any part of the content on the Website for your personal use.

Except as permitted above, you undertake not to copy, store in any medium (including in any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify, or show in public any part of the Website without the prior written permission of Barnet Council or in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Barnet Council owns the copyright in its logo, coat of arms and all other promotional logos which appear on this website or elsewhere. Unauthorised use of these by others is prohibited.

Requests for permission to use our logo should be directed to the Communications Manager, North London Business Park (NLBP), Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP. Telephone 020 8359 7796 or email webmaster@barnet.gov.uk. Please tell us how and why you wish to use our logo, and include your name and contact details. If appearing on a website our logo should be a link to the homepage of our website.

Privacy Statement

Your privacy is paramount to the London Borough of Barnet and we are committed to protecting your privacy online. We will treat any personal information by which you can be identified (i.e. name, address, email etc.) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act of 1998.

We will not sell, trade or rent your information to other third parties.

We will not collect any personal information without your knowledge. This information will be collected for a known purpose that you understand and will not be used in future for any other reason other than the one it is being collected for in the first instance.

The collection of information is for the purpose of communicating with you in regards to an online query and/or your benefiting from our online transactional services.

This information is collected by you filling an electronic form and is encrypted in all those cases. Your trust and confidence in Barnet's online system is key to our success and would welcome any comments / doubts / suggestions that you may have.

Terms and Conditions

Access to and use of this site is provided subject to the following Terms and Conditions:

Use of this site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions which take effect on the date which you first use the site. Barnet Council reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for reviewing regularly information posted online to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes.

Material may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way except for your own personal non-commercial home use. Any other use requires the prior written permission of Barnet Council. You agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any of the material contained in this site or use it for any other purpose other than for your personal non-commercial use. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may deny the contents of this Website for lawful use.

This site and the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Barnet Council, or to any third party products or services, is provided "as is", without any implied warranties or endorsements.

Guidelines for linking to our websites. You may place a link from your website to any of Barnet Council’s websites provided you follow these guidelines: You must not replicate (eg, duplicate, copy or reproduce) content from Barnet Council’s websites, except where permission has first been obtained. You must not create a frame or border environment around Barnet Council’s website content. You must not deep link to any Barnet Council website content in such a way that by doing so you pass it off as your website content. If you use any of our web pages (in full or in part) in any documentation or report, we would appreciate appropriate recognition of the origin (that is, to Barnet Council) be documented, together with a link to our home page at www.barnet.gov.uk.

You must not imply that Barnet Council is endorsing your website, or your products or services. You must not present false information about Barnet Council. You must not use any of Barnet Council’s logos without prior written consent of the Council. You must ensure that your website does not include content which would be construed as distasteful, controversial or offensive. You must ensure that your website does not infringe any intellectual property or other rights of any third parties. Barnet Council expressly reserves the right to request that any link in breach of these guidelines be removed and to take whatever other action it deems appropriate. Need more information? If you have any queries about these guidelines please email webmaster@barnet.gov.uk.

In no event will Barnet Council be liable for any damages including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use of the site. Barnet Council does not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in 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 bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

If these Terms and Conditions are not accepted in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of this Website and therefore should cease using this website immediately.

Disclaimer

While every care has been taken in the compilation of this information, Barnet Council will not be held responsible for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of inaccuracy or error within these pages. The council does not endorse any external linked sites and is not responsible for their content.