Terms and conditions

If you do not agree with these terms, you should leave the site immediately.

The LEASE website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of our Terms and Conditions, which take effect from the date of first use.

The material featured on this site is subject to LEASE copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.

LEASE copyright protected material may be used in accordance with the Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information if it has been:

• published on this website
• published elsewhere by LEASE
• made publicly available under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or otherwise made publicly available with the consent of LEASE

Permission to reproduce the LEASE protected material does not extend to any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Logos identifying LEASE are proprietary marks of the Crown. Copying of our logos and/or any other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner.

Requests for permission to use our logo should be directed to the Chief Executive telephone 020 7832 2500; email [email protected]. Tell us how and why you wish to use our logo(s). Please include your contact details: name, address, telephone number and email.

We aim to make sure that our website, advice and services are up to date and accurate. However we do not give any guarantees or warranties that our website, advice or services will be current, secure, free from errors, complete, uninterrupted or free from bugs or viruses.

We provide initial summary advice. This does not replace independent legal advice. You should consider seeking professional or specialist advice before doing anything on the basis of our advice or services.

As far as the law allows, we will not be liable for any loss, damage or inconvenience that you may experience as a result of using or being unable to use our website, advice or services. This includes but is not limited to:

• any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage
• any loss of data or profits
• any loss or damage caused by tort

Nothing in this disclaimer shall limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence. For the purposes of this disclaimer, “negligence” shall mean a failure to exercise reasonable care and skill. For the statutory definition of negligence, see the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

Nothing in this disclaimer shall limit or exclude our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet.

We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Links from your website to the LEASE website

You are welcome to link to the LEASE website. However, please ensure you comply with the following conditions:

• You must not imply in any way that the Leasehold Advisory Service endorses your organisation.
• You may not use the Leasehold Advisory Service logo without written agreement from us – see ‘Use of the LEASE logo’ above.
• It is your responsibility to ensure deep-links to the LEASE website are kept updated. We will not notify you if we move content.

Links from the LEASE website to your website

At this time, LEASE only links to organisations that fit the following criteria:

• listing and linking of external websites should not be taken as endorsement of any kind
• external websites must have a clear aim, be highly relevant to the LEASE audience and must, in LEASE’s opinion, contain quality content
• government and public sector agency sites
• statutory bodies
• educational establishments
• sites that have some connection with government or established authority – for example the BBC or Land Registry
• selected voluntary bodies and charities with advocacy functions of national importance
• selected trade, professional associations and unions

Any links we add to our site must be directly relevant to specific sections or pages of the LEASE website.

LEASE reserves the right to refuse or include links to any website. Although we will endeavour to maintain links to other websites, we cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over the availability or reliability of linked pages.