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By depositing photos and/or other materials you take full responsibility: </p> <ul> <li> to ensure that all photos and/or other materials being deposited are owned by you (or you have all necessary permissions to deposit them); and </li> <li> to understand that liability regarding use/re-use of anything you deposit may lie with you as depositor. </li> </ul> <p> If there are doubts about ownership, check first and resolve all outstanding issues before making a deposit on the UKSO. Should the ownership of any deposited content be questioned at any time, it will be removed from the UKSO until the matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties involved. </p> <p> Crowdsourced records submitted to the UKSO are made available under the <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/" target="_blank">Open Government Licence</a>, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced materials: "Contains UKSO materials 漏UKRI [year]". </p> <p> Records submitted up to and including 30th June 2016 are licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License</a>. </p> </section> <section class="grid-single transition"> <h2> Terms of use & privacy policy </h2> <p> The UKSO website is hosted by the British Geological Survey (BGS), an institute of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and as such is subject to the BGS <a href="https://www.bgs.ac.uk/help/terms_of_use.html" target="_blank">terms of use</a> and UKRI <a href="https://www.ukri.org/privacy-notice/" target="_blank">privacy policy</a> for websites. </p> </section> <section class="grid-single transition"> <h2> How we use cookies </h2> <p> The UKSO website does not use cookies or other forms of information software to obtain information from visitors to our sites. 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