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Wize GROUP General Copyright Open License (“WGGCOL”)

You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions.

Using Information under this licence

Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under this licence (the 'Information') indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.

The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below.

This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.

You are free to:

  1. copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
  2. adapt the Information;
  3. exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

You must (where you do any of the above):

  • acknowledge the source of the Information in your product, service, work or application by including an attribution statement linking to the source of information specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;
  • If there isn’t a specific attribution statement provided, you must use the following: “Copyright © WizeGROUP. Information provided under the WGG Copyright Open License by WizeIP™

If you are using Information from several Information Sources and listing multiple attributions is not practical in your product or application, you may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statements.

These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence granted by the Licensor, will end automatically.

Exemptions

This licence does not cover:

  • personal data in the Information;
  • information that has not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
  • third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to licence;
  • other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; and
  • identity documents such as the Passports, IDs, etc.
  • information, has special extension mark or badge

Non-endorsement

This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider and/or Licensor endorse you or your use of the Information.

No warranty

The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider and/or Licensor excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider and/or Licensor are not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued supply of the Information.

Governing Law

This licence is governed by the laws of England and Wales

Definitions

In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:

  • 'Information' means information protected by copyright or by database right (for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code) offered for use under the terms of this licence.
  • 'Information Provider' means the person or organisation providing the Information under this licence.
  • 'Licensor' means any Information Provider which has the authority to offer Information under the terms of this licence.
  • 'Use' means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database right, whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes without limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying as may be technically necessary to use it in a different mode or format.
  • 'You', 'you' and 'your' means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporated, acquiring rights in the Information (whether the Information is obtained directly from the Licensor or otherwise) under this licence.

About the General Open Copyright Licence

We have developed this licence as a tool to enable everyone to licence the use and re-use of Information under a common open licence. The Information under this licence is on our websites: www.wizeip.com.

This is version 1.0 of the Wize Group General Open Licence. We may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Copyright Licence. If you are already using Information under a previous version of the Licence, the terms of that licence will continue to apply.