Terms and Conditions

Copyright
This page contains information on copyright and what you should do if you want to link to our website or use our news feeds.

Crown copyright 2007
The material featured on this website is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. The material may be downloaded to file or printer for the purposes of research and private study. Any other proposed use of the material is subject to a copyright licence available from the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) in accordance with standard Crown copyright licensing policy. Copyright licences can be obtained from:

Office of Public Sector Information
The Licensing Division,
St Clements House,
2-16 Colegate,
Norwich,
NR3 1BQ.
Fax: 01603 723 000
Email: licensing@opsi.x.gsi.gov.uk

The permission to reproduce Crown protected material does not extend to any material on this website, which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
For further information on Crown copyright policy and licensing arrangements see the guidance featured on the OSPI website.

Linking to our website
We welcome and encourage other websites' to link to the International group: Visa Services website. You do not have to ask permission to link to our website, however you must comply with the conditions below:
• the link to us must not imply explicitly by description or implicitly by location of the link or logo on the page that the services or products your organisation supplies are endorsed by the International Group: Visa Services;
• if you use the International Group: Visa Services logo it must not changed or edited in any way;
• if you use the logo you must always include an alt tag;
• if the logo itself is used as a hyperlink, it must only link to the International Group: Visa Services home page - www.ukvisas.gov.uk; and
• the link to our website must not load the page into frames - the page must load into the user's entire window.

News feeds
If you wish to use our news feeds on your website you must make it clear that they come from the International Group: Visa Services or www.ukvisas.gov.uk. Please let us know if you set up a feed by contacting us.

We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of International Group: Visa Services content.


Privacy Policy
The International Group: Visa Services reserves the right to gather information relating to site usage. Any information gathered is primarily for internal use to allow us to refine and improve our customer service. Where disclosure of information to a third party is likely we will, where possible, endeavor to ensure that this is clearly indicated. This does not affect your statutory rights.

This site uses an online measuring package called SiteStat which uses cookies to identify repeat visits. Our site is also carrying banner advertising for government services which use cookies in order to avoid you seeing the same advertisements repeated over and over, and to allow us to gauge the number of people viewing a campaign or particular web page.

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies used by the International Group: Visa Services contain no personal information about the user, nor does our website elicit or store any information from users other than the Internet Protocol address of the computer used to access the site. Cookies on this site may safely be turned off by users without affecting how pages are displayed.

Disclaimer
The information available on this site is not intended to be comprehensive, and many details which are relevant to particular circumstances may have been omitted. It is not a complete statement of immigration and nationality law or policy.