Terms and Conditions

Use of this website is subject to the terms and conditions which follow.

This website and the user

This website is a UK Government website managed by the Department named at the top of this page, henceforth referred to as "We". In entering our site you, the user ("You"), are accepting our Terms and Conditions.

Using our website

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

Intellectual Property

The names, images and logos identifying government departments, third parties and their information, products and services are proprietary marks of the Crown and/or third parties.

Copying or use 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.

For permission to use our logo(s) use the Contact link at the bottom of this page.

Tell us how and why you wish to use our logo(s). Please include your contact details - name, address, telephone number and email.

Hyperlinking

Linking to us at this website

You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site.

This website's pages must load into the user's entire window.

Links to external websites

Links on this website will lead to other websites which are not under our control. We are not responsible for the content of any linked site. Listing and linking should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind and we accept no liability in respect of the content. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and 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. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus programme 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.

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are available from the trafficwatchni.com website. Traffic feeds may be freely used on commercial sites subject to the following conditions:

• DfI Traffic Information and Control Centre is credited as the information source.
• All URLs in the feed are preserved and remain functional. These take users to pages on trafficwatchNI containing further information on each item.
• No guarantee is given as to availability or uptime of the feeds but we use our best endeavours to make the information available at all times.
• In the event that a degradation of the trafficwatchNI service is experienced as a result of a user or web sites direct use or linking to an RSS feed, DfI reserves the right to remove access to all RSS feeds.

Social Media

If you follow trafficwatchNI on our social media accounts, we do not automatically follow back. We will use hashtags and mention other social media accounts where appropriate. Being followed, using hashtags or mentioning other accounts does not imply endorsement of any kind.

We will retweet, like and share where we think it is useful but, again, this is not an endorsement.

Our social media accounts may occasionally be unavailable and we accept no responsibility for our lack of service due to any downtime.

We are not able to reply individually to all messages we receive on social media. Emerging themes or helpful suggestions are routinely passed on to policy colleagues in the department.

When you like, share or comment on one of our posts, you should be aware that this will be publicly available. If you post publicly on social media, we may share/retweet your post with our followers. Usernames of our followers are publicly available on our social media channels.

We may also receive information about you from third parties such as other social media users if they mention you or tag you.

We may use analytics or third parties to analyse our social media channels for trends, insights and engagement.

You may unsubscribe/unfollow us at any stage.

We expect our users to offer us the same level of courtesy that we offer them, and as such adhere to the following rules:

• all users must comply with the social media platform’s Terms of Use
• you are wholly responsible for any content you post, including content that you choose to share
• we will report and seek to remove any social media profiles that are set up using departmental imagery without permission

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