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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Privacy statement

Personal information

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