Terms and Conditions

1. What the service provides

UK Grounding provides structured lookup results and field descriptions drawn from identified source datasets. Each result should be interpreted alongside its source, release and attribution information.

2. Data accuracy and coverage

Results reflect the source datasets and releases identified in the response. They may contain historical, incomplete or unavailable information and are not a guarantee of present-day accuracy. Coverage and field meanings vary between services; consult the relevant endpoint documentation and returned source information.

A missing record does not prove that something does not exist. Where a service returns a result status, interpret it according to that endpoint's documentation, including any distinction between invalid input, unsupported coverage and no matching record.

An HTTP success status means the request was processed at the protocol level. It does not by itself mean that a matching record was found, that validation succeeded, or that the data is accurate, current or suitable for your purpose. Check authoritative sources before relying on results for consequential decisions.

Interpretation of response data. Different services and source datasets provide different fields and checks. If a response includes a status, date, validity indicator or other metadata, interpret it using the relevant endpoint documentation and the identified source information. Such fields may reflect an earlier source release rather than present-day conditions. The absence of a field, or a null or empty value, does not by itself establish that a record is valid, current, has ceased to exist, or that a particular check has been performed. Where supplied, a source release identifies the vintage of the data, not a live verification date; a processing-time measurement indicates speed, not data freshness. Do not assume that a field or check provided by one service is available from another.

Independent verification is essential. You are responsible for assessing whether a result, its source and its stated release are suitable for your intended use, and for independently verifying material information with the relevant authoritative source before relying on it for financial, property, legal, regulatory, safety or other consequential decisions. A historical record, a successful lookup or an identified source release must not be treated as a guarantee of current real-world conditions.

UK Grounding identifies and presents available source data, but does not independently validate every underlying record. Data may also be incomplete, delayed or affected by errors in source material or processing. These warnings do not remove any obligation on us to exercise reasonable care and skill where the law requires it.

3. Data licences and attribution

Source data remains subject to its applicable licence and third-party rights. These website terms do not replace those licences or remove the reuse rights they grant. Where the Open Government Licence v3.0 applies, reuse must comply with that licence, including its attribution requirements.

Preserve the applicable source and acknowledgement information when reusing or redistributing results. Applicable attribution statements are included in returned data. Access to this service does not grant rights beyond the applicable source licences or imply endorsement by source publishers.

4. Access, limits and availability

The public tools currently offered without authentication do not require an account or API key, and no payment is requested for their use. Any endpoint-specific access requirements are described in its documentation. Request limits apply across interfaces, and capacity may vary. See the access and rate limits information. Clients should handle HTTP 429 responses and temporary failures without repeatedly retrying at a rate that increases load.

The service has no published uptime or response-time guarantee. Maintenance, source updates, faults or protective measures may interrupt access. API keys or paid services may be introduced separately in the future; these terms do not authorise any charge or subscription.

5. Acceptable use

Use the service lawfully. Do not bypass rate limits or access controls, attempt unauthorised access, interfere with other users, or deliberately overload the service. Automated clients and AI agents must observe the same restrictions as other users. Access causing harmful or abusive traffic may be restricted to protect the service.

Do not use an unverified result as the sole basis for emergency response, life-safety decisions or other high-risk actions. If you publish, automate or incorporate results into your own product or AI-agent workflow, you must evaluate the suitability of the data and make its source and release information available as required by the applicable licences.

6. Cookies and analytics

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7. Limitation of liability for business users

This section applies only if you use UK Grounding wholly or mainly for the purposes of your trade, business, craft or profession. It is subject to section 8 and to any restriction on liability exclusions imposed by applicable law.

Aggregate financial cap: So far as the law permits, our total aggregate liability to a business user arising out of or in connection with UK Grounding services, whether in contract, negligence or otherwise, is limited to the total fees that business user actually paid to us for UK Grounding services before the event giving rise to the claim, excluding amounts refunded. This is one aggregate cap across all claims and events brought by that business user, not a separate cap for each claim or event.

So far as the law permits, we are not liable to business users for lost profits, lost revenue, loss of anticipated savings or business opportunities, business interruption, or indirect or consequential financial losses arising from use of the service.

We supply the service as described in the published endpoint documentation and do not promise continuous availability or that external datasets will be current, complete or suitable for a business user's particular purpose. Businesses remain responsible for their own checks and downstream decisions.

The fee-based cap is not intended to operate as an automatic £0 exclusion for a free service. For use without payment, liability is governed by applicable law and any valid restrictions, rather than an assumed zero-fee cap. These restrictions apply only where they are legally effective, including any applicable statutory reasonableness test.

8. Consumer and other non-excludable rights

If you use the service wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft or profession, the business-user liability cap in section 7 does not apply to you. Your statutory consumer rights and remedies are preserved, including where applicable the right to services performed with reasonable care and skill.

Nothing in these terms excludes or restricts liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted. No statement about the reliability of external data limits statutory data protection rights or remedies.

9. Future paid services and contractual acceptance

The public tools described above are currently free to use. If paid credits, accounts or subscriptions are introduced, prices, credit rules, cancellation and refund information will be presented before purchase, with a separate opportunity to accept the applicable terms. No purchase or ongoing payment obligation is created by this page.

Links to these terms help users find them but do not themselves prove that every anonymous website visitor, API client or AI agent has accepted a contract. Where a contract is required for paid services, acceptance must be obtained through the relevant account or checkout flow.

10. Changes

Updates to these terms will be published here with a revised date. Changes do not retrospectively alter rights you have already acquired under applicable law or a source-data licence. Check the published API documentation and source-release information when integrating or updating a client.