Acceptable use policy

Please read the terms of this policy carefully before using the website

What's in this Policy?

This acceptable use policy defines the appropriate and inappropriate use of our Website and sets out the content standards that apply when you upload content to our Website, make contact with other users on our Website, link to our Website, or interact with our Website in any other way.

Who we are and how to contact us

https://hwb.gov.wales and https://hwb.llyw.cymru (the Website) is operated by the Welsh Government ("We" or "Us").

To contact us, please email hwb@gov.wales or write to us at:

Digital Learning Unit, Digital Learning Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ 

By using our Website you accept these terms

By using our Website, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Website.

Please note that the Terms of Website also apply to your use of our Website.

We may make changes to the terms of this policy

We may amend this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time.

Each time you wish to use our Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

Prohibited uses

You may only use our Website for lawful purposes.

You may not use our Website:

• In any way that breaches any applicable 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 commercial purposes without obtaining a licence from us to do so (or from our licensors, as applicable).
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards below.
• 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, send 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.
• To construct a database of any kind, or store the website (in its entirety or in any part) in databases for access by you or any third party or to distribute any database websites containing all or part of the website.
• In any way that involves:
  • Terrorism offences.
  • Child sexual exploitation or abuse offences including grooming and child sexual abuse material.
  • Encouraging or assisting suicide (or attempted suicide) or serious self-harm offences.
  • Harassment, stalking, making threats or abuse offences.
  • Hate offences.
  • Controlling or coercive behaviour offence.
  • Drugs or psychoactive substance offences.
  • Firearms or other weapons offences.
  • Unlawful immigration or human trafficking offences.
  • Sexual exploitation of adults offences.
  • Extreme pornography offence.
  • Intimate image abuse offences.
  • Proceeds of crime offences.
  • Fraud and financial services offences.
  • Foreign interference offences.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our Website
  • any equipment or network on which our Website is stored
  • any software used in the provision of our Website
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party

By breaching the provisions of this section, you may be committing criminal offences 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 Website will cease immediately.

How you may use material on our Website

Access to the Website is provided on a temporary basis and you acknowledge that you acquire no rights or licences in or to the website and/or the Content other than the limited right to use the website in accordance with this policy (or the Terms of Use) and to download on the terms set out in this section.

You may download pages of our website provided that:

• you only download and/or print copies of the website or the Content for educational purposes and provided always that such downloads or printed copies are only used at educational institutions located within Wales
• you retain on such download and/or printed copy all copyright notices and shall remain bound by the terms of such wording and notices
• you do 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 and
• our status (or any identified contributor) is acknowledged as the authors of content on our Website

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Website will stop immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our Website (Contribution).

These Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.

A Contribution must:

• Be accurate (where it states facts).
• Only contain opionions that are genuinely held (where it states opinions).
• Comply with the law applicable in Wales and in any country from which it is posted.

A Contribution must not:

• Be defamatory of any person.
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Promote sexually explicit material.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• 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 a duty of confidence.
• Contain illegal content or promote any illegal activity.
• Be in contempt of court.
• Be pornographic.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18.
• Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from us 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.
• Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
• Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other websites.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in this policy.

Breach of this policy

When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. 

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use

upon which you are permitted to use our Website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Website.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to our Website.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Issue legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by the laws of England and Wales as applied in Wales.

We both agree that the courts of England and Wales sitting in Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with these terms.