Site Terms of Use

Last updated: 4 July 2023

Your access to, and use of, this website (the “Site”) constitutes your acceptance, without limitation or qualification, of these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, either in full or in part, you should cease using the Site immediately.

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Who runs the Site?

Thank you for accessing the Site which is owned and operated by DTV Services Limited (“DTVS”) and Digital UK (“DUK”) (together “Freeview”).

  • DUK are responsible for maintaining and operating the Freeview platform.
  • DTVS are responsible for the promotion of the Freeview platform.
  • DTVS is a company incorporated in England (registered number 04435179) whose registered office is at DTV Services Limited, Everyone TV, Triptych Bankside (North Building), 185 Park Street, London SE1 9BL.
  • DUK is a company incorporated in England (registered number 05422613) whose registered office is at Everyone TV, Triptych Bankside (North Building), 185 Park Street, London SE1 9BL.

If you have any questions about these Terms of Use please contact us at the above address.

Who may use the Site?

The Site is for visitors who wish to find out more about the business and products of Freeview by using the Site (“you”). You should read these Terms of Use in conjunction with the Privacy Notice and Cookie Statement, which is incorporated in these Terms by reference.

Changes to the Terms of Use

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, add to or delete any or all of these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice, and will post these changes on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after such changes have been posted will constitute your acceptance of those changes. You are therefore advised to visit the Terms of Use on a regular basis to consult the current version.

Lawful use

You may only use the Site for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Site by any third party. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Site in any way.

All rights, including copyright, trade mark and database rights, in the Site and its contents, are either owned by us or licensed to us, or otherwise used as permitted by applicable law. You may access and download webpages from the Site for your own private use but not for any commercial or public use. Except as permitted for your own private use, you undertake not to access, download, copy, store in any medium (including in any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify, or show in public any part of the Site without our prior written permission.

Reservation of rights

Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, we do not grant any express or implied right to you under any patents, trademarks (including the “Freeview”, “Freeview Play” and “Freeview+” words and logos), copyright or database rights in any material published on the Site and you must not use any such material without the prior written consent of one of our authorised officers.

Transferring your data outside Europe

We may transfer your data outside Europe. This transfer will be in accordance with our Privacy Notice.

No warranty

We provide the Site and its contents on an “as is” and an “as available” basis, without any representation or warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, accuracy, merchantability or title in relation to the Site.

While we take reasonable care to ensure the accuracy of the information on the Site, including the Service Checker, we and the owners of any such information will not be held responsible for any losses or liabilities arising from the use of such information. We do not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of our Site.

Third party sites and content

As a convenience to you, we may provide on the Site, links to sites operated by other entities. If you use these links, you will leave the Site. If you decide to visit any linked site, you do so at your own risk and it is your responsibility to review the terms of use and privacy policy of the relevant site and to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements. All information contained on the linked sites contain the views, opinions, statements, offers, and other material of the respective site owners, users, participants or authors.

We make no warranty or representation regarding, and do not endorse, any linked sites or information appearing thereon or any of the products or services described thereon. The use of links does not imply that we or our licensors, endorse, are affiliated or associated with, or are legally authorised to use any trade mark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible through the links, or that any provider of any linked site is authorised to use any of our or our licensors’ trade marks, trade names, logos, or copyright material.

Linking to the Site

All links to the Site must be approved in writing by us prior to the creation of the link, except that we consent to links in which: (i) the link is a text-only link containing only the URL: https://www.Freeview.co.uk; (ii) the link “points” the user directly to the home page only and not to pages accessible from the home page; (iii) the link, when activated by a user, displays the home page of the Site in a fully operable and navigable browser window and not within a “frame” on the linked site; and (iv) the appearance, position, and other aspects of the link do not create the false appearance that an entity or its activities or products are associated with or sponsored by us or our licensors nor damage or dilute the goodwill associated with our own or our licensors’ name and trade marks. We reserve the right to revoke this consent to link at any time at our sole discretion.

The Site may contain links to sites operated by other entities. We do not control the privacy policies or the terms of use of the websites reached through the links from the Site. These may differ from the policy and terms of use of the Site. You will need to determine if they are acceptable to you. We accept no responsibility for the content or the privacy practices employed by such other websites.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we, our affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers and our and their employees, agents, officers and directors will not be liable for direct, indirect, consequential or special loss and/or loss of profits, business interruption, loss of data, information or programs on your information handling system, pain and suffering or emotional distress arising out of or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, the Site, its content, materials or functions, whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action.

Changes to the Site

We may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site at any time. We may also impose limits on certain features and services and/or restrict access to parts or all of the Site without notice or liability. We reserve the right to terminate any secure log-in given to you and to suspend your access to secure areas of the Site upon becoming aware that you have breached these Terms of Use.

No waiver

No waiver by us of any breach of any obligation arising under these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any other breach and no failure of ours to exercise or to partially exercise any remedy shall constitute a waiver of the right subsequently to exercise that or any other remedy.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England. The courts of England are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes arising out of or in connection with the use of the Site.

Severability

If any of these Terms of Use should be determined to be illegal, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any jurisdiction in which these Terms of Use are intended to be effective, then to the extent that, and within the jurisdiction which that Term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms of Use and the remaining Terms of Use shall survive, remain in full force and effect, and continue to be binding and enforceable.