Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
Who we are and how to contact us
www.nationaltrail.co.uk is a site operated by Natural England (We).
To contact us, please email nationaltrails@naturalengland.org.uk.
By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
There are other terms that may apply to you
These terms of service refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
We may make changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
We may make changes to our site
We may update and change our site from time to time.
We may suspend or withdraw our site
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of service and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
You must keep your account details safe
If you choose, or you 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. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of service.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at nationaltrails@naturalengland.org.uk.
How you may use material on our site
The works on our site are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
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.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of service, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these terms of service).
No text or data mining, or web scraping
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
Rules about linking to our site
You may link to our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
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 to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects our acceptable use standards as set out in [INSERT AS LINK TO ACCEPTABLE USE CLAUSE BELOW].
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact nationaltrails@naturalengland.org.uk
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Our trade marks are registered
The National Trails Acorn logo is a UK registered trademark of Natural England and Natural Resources Wales, under trademark numbers UK0000229603, UK00003101345 and UK00002552727. The following are all Countryside Code UK registered trademarks of Natural England and Natural Resources Wales: English language Countryside Code roundel – trademark number. UK00003577947, Welsh language Countryside Code roundel – trademark number UK00003577952, Linear Countryside Code – trademark number UK00003964179, Bilingual Linear Countryside Code (English/Welsh) – trademark number UK00003964185 and Countryside Code roundel only – trademark number UK00003964176. You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under How you may use material on our site [INSERT AS LINK].
Acceptable Use Standards & uploading content to our site
When you are uploading content to the site, such content will be submitted to the relevant National Trail’s Trail Officer or to us for review. The Trail Officer, or we, will determine in their, or our, sole discretion whether your submitted content can be published to the site.
The acceptable use standards set out below apply to any material you upload or share to our site or generate on our site (User Content). Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to create content directly on our site, you must comply with the standards set out below.
We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether any User Content or your use of our site breaches these standards.
You may not use our site:
In any way that breaches any local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
To upload, share, post or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
User Content:
Must be accurate (where it states facts).
Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is posted and to which the website is targeted.
Must be relevant for users of the National Trails.
User Content must not:
Be defamatory of any person.
Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
Be likely to deceive any person.
Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or duty of confidence.
Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.
Be in contempt of court.
Give the impression that the User Content emanates from Natural England, if this is not the case.
Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
You warrant that any such contribution complies with the above standards, and you are liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
We will consider any content you upload to our site to be non-confidential and not protected by any trademark, patent or copyright (“non-proprietary”), that is, in the public domain. You own your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to others. The rights you license to us are described in [INSERT AS LINK TO RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD CLAUSE].
We also have the right to disclose your identity to anyone who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
We reserve the right to contact you at any time about the content you upload to our site.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out above, or if complaints are received regarding the service provided to National Trail users.
If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact nationaltrails@naturalengland.org.uk.
Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote our site or the service forever.
A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for our partners or advertisers to use the content for their purposes forever.
User-generated content is not approved by us
Our site may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
Ordnance Survey Mapping API
All Ordnance Survey base mapping used to display information on our site has been approved under the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA)Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) with the Ordnance Survey and is subject to Ordnance Survey copyright: © Crown copyright and database rights 2024 OS 100022021EUL.
You are granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable licence solely to view the licensed data for non-commercial purposes for the period during which Natural England makes it available. You are not permitted to copy, sub-license, distribute, sell or otherwise make available the licensed data to third parties in any form. Third party rights to enforce the terms of this licence shall be reserved to Ordnance Survey.
For further information on Ordnance Survey licensing, please visit: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/licensing-agreements/copyright-acknowledgements
We do not supply any identifying information to Ordnance Survey.
Do not rely on information on this site
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
We are not responsible for viruses
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not introduce viruses
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. 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 or any other equipment or network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. 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.
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
If you are a business user:
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
use of, or inability to use, our site; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer user:
We only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our [LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY].
Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. We both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business, these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.