Access to and use of www.rmg.co.uk and content provided on these pages is provided by the National Maritime Museum (NMM) on the following terms:

  • By using www.rmg.co.uk you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of www.rmg.co.uk. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to www.rmg.co.uk.
  • The NMM may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of www.rmg.co.uk will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms.
  • If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on www.rmg.co.uk then the latter shall prevail.

Permitted uses

We encourage you to use www.rmg.co.uk to extend your knowledge of the Museum and its topics. Subject to certain limitations, there is no copyright infringement by 'fair dealing', which includes use of www.rmg.co.uk content for one of the following purposes:

  • private study 
  • non-commercial research
  • inclusion of content in thesis produced by students who are attending an educational establishment
  • criticism and review (and news reporting)
  • downloading content and storing a copy on a temporary basis for the sole purpose of viewing such content without alteration or addition.  

Where the NMM has the right to do so, and where indicated, it has also made its collection records and images available for non commercial reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence requires any adaptations of NMM collections works to be re-licensed under the same licence terms.

The NMM has developed an Application Programming Interface (API) to make it easy for individuals and organisations to share its collection records and images with the public. If you need to download more than 25 images at a time, you are encouraged to use the API.

  • Collection images must always credit ‘National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London’ and link to the original collection record on the NMM collections online website.
  • Some collection images have a more restricted licence than Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence, which you must comply with. Please see our full API documentation for advice on how to exclude such images. 
  • Do not make an unreasonable number of API calls or compromise the experience of other users. As a guide, you should make no more than 3000 calls per day and no more than one request per second. We may place more formal limits on the API in the future.
  • The maximum allowed enlargement of images is 1200 pixels along the longest length of the image. Do note that these images are made available for non-commercial use only.

The NMM invites you to contribute to parts of the www.rmg.co.uk website, by sharing tags and feedback and creating your own collections. By making a contribution to the collections online website, you grant to the NMM a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use the material under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. The NMM reserves the right to share your contributions via its API and to remove any contributions it deems unsuitable. If you would like to use the National Maritime Museum collection records under different conditions get in touch with our Image Licensing team.

Non-permitted uses

Other than as expressly permitted by these terms of use, you may not copy, download, reproduce, publish, republish, post, transmit, modify, adapt, translate, manipulate, add to, delete from, adapt, distribute or otherwise use any content in whole or in part, in any medium without the National Maritime Museum's prior written permission or without the written permission of the relevant copyright holder. Unauthorized attempts to deny service, upload information, change information or to attempt to access non-public data from this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable to the full extent of the law of England and Wales.

National Maritime Museum collections API terms of use

The National Maritime Museum collections application programming interface ('NMM API'), was developed to maximise the use of the National Maritime Museum content with as few barriers as possible. By using the API you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access or use the API. The National Maritime Museum may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly.

Your continued use of the API will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms.The National Maritime Museum may also suspend or discontinue any aspect of the NMM API at any time, including the available of the NMM API. The API is provided for historical, educational and information purposes only is provided on an as is and as available basis.

To the extent permitted by law, the NMM excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. Where the National Maritime Museum has the right to do so, and where indicated, it has also made its collection records and images available for non commercial reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Images must always credit 'National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London' and link to the original record on the NMM website. This licence requires any adaptations of NMM collections works to be re-licensed under the same licence terms.

  • Collection images must always credit ‘National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London’ and link to the original collection record on the NMM collections online website.
  • Some collection images have a more restricted licence, which you must comply with. Please see our full API documentation for advice on how to exclude such images
  • Do not make an unreasonable number of API calls or compromise the experience of other users. As a guide, you should make no more than 3000 calls per day and no more than one request per second. We may place more formal limits on the API in the future.
  • The maximum allowed enlargement of images is 1200 pixels along the longest length of the image. Do note that these images are made available for non-commercial use only, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

The National Maritime Museum encourages a fair use policy and reserves the right to require the use of API keys or other forms of authentication in the future.

Disclaimers

The www.rmg.co.uk website and its content are provided on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis. To the extent permitted by law, the NMM excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

While we try to ensure that all content is correct at the time of publication, no responsibility is accepted by the NMM for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

The content of the website is subject to change without notice. If you cite the website as a reference, we recommend that you include the URL and the date you accessed it.

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of materials included on this website. If you consider materials to be your copyright and have not been contacted by the National Maritime Museum, please contact us.

On occasion, the NMM will link to external websites for further information or comment. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of external websites, even when we link to them.

The NMM does not warrant that www.rmg.co.uk will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the website or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) on your personal computer to satisfy your particular requirements.

Limitation of liability

The National Maritime Museum shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever, whether in contract, Tort (including negligence) or otherwise, arising from the content or the website.

The National Maritime Museum, for the purposes of this notice, shall include its departments, employees, partners, principals, agents and representatives and any third-party providers or source of information or data.

Copyright

The content of the National Maritime Museum website, including all text, images, media and designs, is protected by copyright. The website includes items that are both in and out of copyright, as well as works protected by Crown Copyright.The names, marks, images and logos identifying the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, or third parties are proprietary marks of these organizations and may not be reproduced without their prior written permission.Anyone republishing material from the NMM website without permission is liable for any resulting infringement of copyright.

Third party copyright

The website includes some materials that are not the copyright of the NMM. Every effort has been made to locate the copyright holders in order to obtain the appropriate permissions and correctly attribute them. We welcome any information that would help us to update or complete our records.

If you wish to make a complaint regarding potential copyright infringement by the Museum, please fill out this form.

Crown Copyright

Crown Copyright works may be copied and reproduced without seeking prior permission, but should include an acknowledgement of the source and the copyright status. Please refer to the Open Government Licence delivered by The National Archives for more details.

Creative Commons

Where the NMM has the right to do so, and where indicated, it has also made its collection records and images available for non commercial reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Images must always credit 'National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London' and link to the original record on the NMM website. This licence requires any adaptations of NMM collections works to be re-licensed under the same licence terms. Records that are available under this licence will be clearly marked with the CC logo.If you would like to use the National Maritime Museum collection records under different conditions get in touch with our Image Licensing team.

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