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Some substantial items of text on this website have come from external sources - such as reproductions of newspaper articles and press releases.  Most of these are copyright.  Normally, we have obtained the permission of their publishers to include them, and we are grateful to the publishers for their co-operation.  Bear in mind that the organisations don't necessarily endorse or support our site.

See later on this page for details of the waiving of Crown copyright by HMSO - eg in respect of Acts and Regulations.

We've included small extracts from some external sources, such as legislation, and local authority guidance notes.  Our understanding is that permission for this is not required.  In some cases we mention the source.  In others we don't - for good reasons.  For instance with our summary of the law, we augmented our own wording with a blend of snippets from various official sources, because their wording is likely to be more fluent and correct than our attempts.

In some cases, we understand you're entitled to reproduce copyright material without express permission - for example for the purposes of criticism and/or review under S.30(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.  See Plain Figures - Examples and Tips  .  Also, we understand you can reproduce certain material if it relates to news.

General

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We may have inadvertently reproduced some information from copyright sources without permission.  If so, please accept our apologies, and (if you feel it necessary) contact us so we can rectify matters.

Running the website is time-consuming - and the less time we have to spend on obtaining copyright approval, the more time we can devote to improving the site - and raising more money for charities.

If you believe you're the copyright holder of the material we've used, we ask you to consider the following :

• We're not lawyers and we're not expert in copyright law.
• Is the material really subject to copyright? - or is it (for example) out of copyright, in the public domain or Creative Commons?
• Even if it is copyright, we may have the right to use it under 'fair use' rules, newsworthiness etc (see above).
• We may already have obtained permission from someone in your organisation to use it.
• We take care to reproduce material accurately.
• Normally we don't use material in a negative way - for instance criticising the material or its authors (except with misleading or bogus collection leaflets).
• Usually we're open about where we obtained it from, and we aim to give due credits.
  (Anyone copying it from our site would know who produced it.)
• We try to express gratitude to the source.
• Please bear in mind that our aim is to raise extra money for genuine charities.  We don't gain financially from the site - we're volunteers, running CharityBags in our spare time.
• Our use of the material adds to the effectiveness of the website - and so it helps raise more money for "good causes".

A note on externally-produced documents reproduced on the website

These are newspaper articles, press releases, legislation etc which are on our site.

Methods of reproduction

We've tried to reproduce them as faithfully as possible, using the following methods :

• In some cases we've been supplied with the document in electronic form (such as email attachments).  So the copy on our site should be identical to the original.
• In other cases we've used copy-and-paste in our browser to copy from the original on the Internet into our web design software.  This also should ensure that our copy is identical.
• 
  Image of computer scanner
  from SCRAN / Saul Gardiner
  Reproduced with permission
  When the above methods weren't possible, we've scanned a hardcopy of the document and either :
  • put it on the website as an image (eg the 1939 Act), or
  • used optical character recognition (OCR) software to convert it into electronic form.  We've checked the output against the original.
• With very small documents or extracts, often we've just retyped them.  Again, we've checked the output against the original.

Authenticity

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© SCRAN / James Gardiner

The copies on our website should be the same as the originals, apart from the following :

• Extracts - Some of our documents are only extracts.  If so, we state this.
• Errors in the originals - Where we have spotted crucial typo errors in the originals of the documents (telephone numbers, web addresses etc) we've corrected them if appropriate (in accordance with normal practice), and sometimes added a note to say we've done it.
• Markup - In a few cases we've emboldened or coloured some key words in the text to make it easier to read.  Usually we've added a note to say what we've done.
• Wrapping of lines (within paragraphs) - This may be different to the original.
• Anonymising - In a few instances we've anonymised certain items such as names, places and telephone numbers - to protect people's privacy.  See About us for details.

Title page of the
House to House Collections Act 1939
(Crown copyright HMSO)

Waiving of Crown copyright by HMSO

Acts and Regulations (and other central government publications) are © Crown copyright.  The copyright is administered by OPSI / Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).

However, copyright has been waived in the public interest, and HMSO allow (and encourage) people to copy/reproduce Acts and Regulations (and many other documents), subject to certain minor provisos.  See their website www.opsi.gov.uk for details (eg "Crown Copyright Policy Guidance").  So you don't need permission to :

• photocopy them
• reproduce (publish) them in printed publications or on websites