UKSO website privacy and policies

Crowdsourced records submitted by the UKSO citizen science community

By uploading and depositing photos or other materials on to the UKSO, you, as depositor, do so on the understanding that anything deposited may be freely used/re-used by others accessing the UKSO. By depositing photos and/or other materials you take full responsibility:

  • 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
  • to understand that liability regarding use/re-use of anything you deposit may lie with you as depositor.

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.

Crowdsourced records submitted to the UKSO are made available under the Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced materials: "Contains UKSO materials ©UKRI [year]".

Records submitted up to and including 30th June 2016 are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Terms of use & privacy policy

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 terms of use and UKRI privacy policy for websites.

How we use cookies

The UKSO website does not use cookies or other forms of information software to obtain information from visitors to our sites. Cookies are defined as files containing small amounts of information that are placed by a website on a user's computer or mobile phone to improve services provided by the website. The UKSO does provide functionality via a number of third parties who may set cookies on their websites on its behalf e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. In addition, some UKSO web pages embed content from third parties that use cookies. The UKSO website is hosted by the BGS and as such is subject to the UKRI cookie policy.