Conditions of Use Policy

The General Register Office website is maintained for your personal use and viewing.

Visitors to this website are granted permission to access the information on condition that it is for personal use (including research) and searching is not made through automated means. By registering on this website you are agreeing to the conditions of use and GRO reserves the right to remove access where it is believed the conditions are not being met.

Intellectual property

The names, images and logos identifying the General Register Office are proprietary marks of the General Register Office. 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.

Linking to our information

We do not require you to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We actively welcome other sites linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on other sites. The General Register Office's pages must load into the user's entire window.

Links to other websites

The General Register Office is not responsible for the contents or reliability of linked web sites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Virus protection

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production for viruses. 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 your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Disclaimer

The General Register Office website and material relating to government information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), is provided 'as is', without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the General Register Office website.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.