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Terms and conditions

These terms and conditions (terms) explain the how you may use the CLOSER website, including the sub-sites Learning Hub and the Covid-19 Tracker. We may amend these terms at any time, so you should regularly check this page.

When using this website it is important that you read and understand the CLOSER privacy policy, cookie policy and accessibility statement.

CLOSER

This website is managed by CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research. We are the interdisciplinary partnership of leading social and biomedical longitudinal population studies, the UK Data Service and The British Library.

Any references to ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ in these terms refer to CLOSER. We are based at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London (UCL). Our office address is 55-59 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0NU.

Disclaimer

We make all reasonable effort to ensure that the content of this website is up-to-date and accurate at the time of publication or subsequent modification, but we accept no responsibility for any errors, omissions or changes that are made at a later date.

We can accept no liability for loss or damage that results either directly or indirectly by users of any information published on this site, or any pages/sites that are linked to from this website.

Intellectual property

All content on the website is the property of CLOSER, unless otherwise stated, including names, images, artwork and logos. All content that is the property of CLOSER is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and must not be duplicated, unless for personal research use, educational or other non-commercial purposes. Under this licence, non-commercial users may:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

We request that you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that CLOSER endorses you or your use.

If you wish to use our logos or other content on this website, you must seek prior approval from our Policy and Dialogue team.

We welcome you adding links to the CLOSER website on your website, without seeking prior approval.

Acceptable use

You must only use this website and the information that it contains for lawful purposes and must not breach these terms.

You must not infringe copyright or other proprietary rights, disrupt how the website works, interfere with how it works (such as breaking security), or facilitate transmission of a virus or material that could potentially damage the website.

By using this website you also agree not to use information from the website for any unrequested purpose such as spamming or sending bulk emails.

For any further information, please contact CLOSER.