Terms and conditions

• Access

  Some areas of the website, University network and University services are available only to University staff, students, alumni or other authorised University users. The use of this website is subject to the University's computer and IT support.

  While the University tries to make these services (including the website) available 24 hours a day, it reserves the right to suspend or withdraw access, without notice, to either the whole or part of these services, for any reason.

  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, then you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. For more information about your computer account see the computer and IT support web pages (staff and students).

• Accessibility

  The University is committed to making its website as accessible and usable as possible, irrespective of the browser or platform used. Our central website has been designed to conform to Section 508 and W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) standards.

  See the University's accessibility statement.

• Complaints

  The University of St Andrews recognises that there may be occasions when a student or member of the public feels that the level of service or treatment that they have received from the University has fallen short of what might reasonably be expected.

  The University has developed and implemented a complaints procedure that is compliant with the Scottish Higher Education Model Complaints Handling Procedure, published by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO). 

  See the University's complaints handling procedure. 

• Cookies

  Please see the cookie notice.

• Copyright

  Unless stated otherwise, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images and other material on this website are owned by the University of St Andrews or its licensors and may not be reproduced without prior written permission.

  See also the copyright overview.

• Data protection and privacy

  The University of St Andrews recognises that personal privacy is an important issue, and we support the protection of internet privacy as required by UK legislation. Find out more about privacy and data protection at St Andrews.

• External websites

  Any links to external websites provided by this website have been included for convenience only.

  The provision by the University of a link to another website does not constitute any authorisation by the University to you to access materials or services held at that location.

  The University of St Andrews is not responsible for the content, availability or quality of any material contained on external websites and links to external sites should not be taken as an endorsement by the University of opinions expressed or services offered by those sites.

• Governing law and jurisdiction

  These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland and any disputes that may arise will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.

  You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which you are accessing this website.

  If any provision of these terms shall become or be declared illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be divisible and shall be deemed deleted from these terms.

• Hosting

  The University operates this website from St Andrews, Scotland, and makes no representation that the information contained herein is appropriate or available for use in other locations outside the United Kingdom. You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which you are accessing the website.

• Liability

  To the fullest extent permitted by law, the University will not be held liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage arising out of the use, reliance upon content, delay, variation or failure in the provision of information held on these pages.

  The University takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the University services and the University network are error and virus free. Every effort is made to ensure downloadable content is free from viruses. The University accepts no liability for damages resulting from virus infection.

• RSS feeds

  By downloading or using a University of St Andrews RSS or Atom Feed (the "RSS feed") you agree to be bound by the terms of the following licence (the "licence terms").

  The University of St Andrews may amend the licence terms from time to time, and you should therefore review the licence terms each time you download the RSS feed. By using the RSS feed after such an amendment, you agree to be bound thereafter by the amended licence terms.

  Copyright

  Unless stated otherwise, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images and other material within an RSS feed are owned by the University of St Andrews or its licensors and may not be reproduced without prior written permission.

  See also pages on copyright.

  Disclaimer

  While all reasonable efforts are made to ensure that the content of the University's RSS feeds are accurate and up to date, all content, services and materials are provided "as is" and the University reserves the right to amend, add to or remove these at any time.

  While the University tries to make RSS feeds available 24 hours a day, it reserves the right to rename, suspend or withdraw access, without notice, to either the whole or part of these services, for any reason.

  Licence

  Subject to these licence terms, the University grants you a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to display on your website the headlines, links and other information or materials that you select to receive from the University via the RSS feed ("University content").

  Except as expressly set out in these licence terms, you do not gain any ownership rights over the University content or the RSS feed. You may not use any University crest, logo or trademark on your website without the University's specific and written consent. Nothing in these licence terms shall be treated as giving any such consent.

  Relationship with the University's website terms and conditions

  The terms set out in the University's website terms and conditions document apply to the RSS feed in addition to these licence terms. If there is any conflict between the terms and conditions and the licence terms, the licence terms shall prevail.

  Use of the RSS feed

  1. You may not use the RSS feed or display any University content on any website that displays or contains information in the following categories:
     • information that the University considers is likely to incite hatred or that constitutes or encourages discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, religion, political affiliation, social class or otherwise
     • information that promotes, facilitates or condones anti-social behaviour; criminal or illegal behaviour; intimidation; violence, terrorism; vigilantism; or that risks UK national security
     • information that is misleading, defamatory, pornographic or actionable at law.
  2. You must not pass off University content as your own or anyone else's and must ensure that the University is clearly credited for University content on your website. Accreditation should be "From the University of St Andrews"; under no circumstances should the University be referred to as "St Andrews University".
  3. You must not make any commercial use of the feed, and University content and must not make any charge (including in-kind) for accessing the University content and using the RSS feed.
  4. You must provide a functional link back to the University website.
  5. You must not change the University content in any way or add any material to it.
  6. You may use the RSS feed in a 'mashup' application (an application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single application) so long as these licence terms are adhered to.
  7. You must pass on the same licence terms to anyone gaining access to the RSS feed or University content via the website.
  8. Should you receive any enquiries which relate to the University of St Andrews or the University content, you should promptly refer such enquiries to itservicedesk@st-andrews.ac.uk.

  Endorsement by the University

  Nothing in these licence terms shall be treated as an endorsement by the University of the website or any material on or accessible via the website and you must not state or imply anything to the contrary.

  Warranty and liability

  You agree that:

  • you have fully complied with and will continue to comply fully with all applicable laws and regulations
  • the website shall not contain information that is actionable at law, obscene, pornographic or that may, in the University's sole opinion, bring the University into disrepute
  • you agree to indemnify the University and keep the University fully and effectively indemnified in respect of all losses, costs (including legal and professional fees), damages, monies paid in settlement and other liabilities whatsoever, arising out of or in connection with a breach by you of the licence terms or use of the RSS feed and University content.

  Termination

  You may terminate this licence at any time by destroying or removing all copies of the RSS feed and all University content from your website, hard drives, networks and other storage media.

  The University may terminate this licence at any time for any reason without liability to you. You agree to destroy all copies of the RSS feed and University content upon receiving notice of such termination.

• Trademarks

  The University of St Andrews crest, logos and trademarks used and displayed on our website are the University's registered and unregistered trademarks, or those of others. You may not use these trademarks without our prior written consent, or that of the relevant owner.

• Use of content

  All text, images and other content on this website is copyright of the University of St Andrews unless explicitly stated otherwise. You may only download or copy it for the purposes of teaching, administration and research within the University, or for personal, non-commercial use. You are required to seek written permission from the University for any other use or purpose; please contact the digital communications team at itservicedesk@st-andrews.ac.uk.

  You may link to any page on the website. You are not permitted, however, to frame or page-jack the website (that is, copy keywords, meta tags, content or code from this website and place it on another website causing users or search engines to be redirected to that other site). You are not permitted to use any robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy the website or the content expressed herein, other than for search engine indexing. Such search engines are expected to comply with the robots exclusion protocol as set out in any robots.txt files on the website.