Copyright Policy
What is copyright?
Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to control the use of copyright protected works. All of the material marked as proprietary and published on our website, received via email and or other digital platforms is protected by copyright law and should only be used as set out in the 'How may I use Actum Group content?' section below. Use made without our permission may therefore infringe our copyright which can result in personal and corporate liability.
How may I use Actum Group content?
You may do the following
View our content for your personal or business use on any device that is compatible with actumgroup.com and store our content on that device for your personal or business use.
Print single copies of articles.
Share links to articles.
May I republish or redistribute Actum Group content?
Except as set out above, you may not copy Actum Group content from actumgroup.com or any third party source of Actum Group content such as news aggregators, and you may not republish or redistribute full text articles, for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including websites, newsletters or intranets.
We recognise that users of the Internet want to share information with others. We therefore permit republishing and redistribution of Actum Group content as set out below, provided that this does not create a Substitute for Actum Group's own products or services. As long as you do not create a substitute, you may publish online the original Actum Group headline, original link to the full article and/or the first 150 characters of an article (teaser), and forward the original headlines, links and teaser to other individuals, provided that you accredit Actum Group as the source.
Summarising limited parts of Actum Group content
You may republish or redistribute a summary of Actum Group articles after receiving approval from Actum Group Limited by writing to communications@actumgroup.com and complying with the conditions set out below. A summary can be either an extract (30 words copied verbatim from an article, inserted into a larger original work) or an abstract (a 30-word non-verbatim summary of the news or facts reported, which does not misrepresent the original article).
Conditions you must comply with
You source Actum Group as the author of any article from which you have derived a summary, including a hyperlink from the words 'Actum Group' to the original story published on actumgroup.com.
You ensure that your summaries do not in whole or in part form a Substitute for Actum Group's own products and services. No individual or organisation may create, republish or redistribute more than four summaries in aggregate each day.
You do not use or create summaries that promote or endorse any product or service.
If Actum Group notifies you that it believes you are creating summaries outside of these parameters, you shall immediately cease doing so.
What you are not permitted to do with Actum Group content
You Cannot
Share your username and password with anyone else. A password is for one person's use only.
Copy, publish or redistribute full articles, photographs, graphics, tables or images in any way.
Create derivative works from our content, unless you are creating summaries as described above.
Photocopy or scan copies of articles.
Remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of Actum Group content.
Use spidering technology or other data mining technologies to search and link to actumgroup.com.
Frame, harvest or scrape Actum Group content or otherwise access Actum Group content for similar purposes.
If you have any questions on copyright or republishing our material, please contact our team at info@actumgroup.com.