Terms and conditions

Data usage

The Scottish Government has published these data as Environmental Information on the energy performance of buildings in Scotland. Publication is intended to contribute to delivering the Scottish Government’s policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide data to facilitate improvements in the energy efficiency of buildings through research, improved management, and innovation.

Non-Address Data

All data fields other than the address and postCode data exposed by this service are licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Address Data

Any use of address data which is not specified in Royal Mail’s copyright notice or covered by one of the copyright exceptions will require an appropriate licence. For further information, please visit: OSG | One Scotland Gazetteer.

Royal Mail Copyright Notice

These data include post town and postCodes in which intellectual property rights are owned by Royal Mail Group Limited (‘address data’). The Scottish Government has published the address data with the consent of Royal Mail Group Limited, which reserves all its copyright, database rights, trade marks and other intellectual property rights.

Royal Mail Group Limited permits the use of ‘address data’ for specific purposes related to the energy performance of buildings which are as follows:

• The effective management of properties in the private or public sector with a view to promoting energy efficiency (through consideration of factors such as patterns of use, maintenance, repairs, improvements and upgrades of building structure or energy using systems).
• Research to provide data, analysis and statistics intended to improve the understanding of energy efficiency of buildings or to facilitate innovation and improvement in use, design, materials, and equipment to this end.
• Research into the effectiveness or impact of energy efficiency improvements including those delivered through Government or other energy improvement programmes.
• Promoting and marketing energy efficiency improvements that may be made through a Government energy efficiency programme or initiative.
• Promotion and better understanding of the current energy efficiency of buildings and potential improvement in the building sale or rental markets and/or by building occupiers or users.
• To enable enforcement authorities to carry out enforcement duties as required by The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2008, as amended.
• By local authorities in the exercise of their duties under the Building (Scotland) Act 2003.
• For the prevention or detection of crime, the apprehension or prosecution of alleged offenders, any proceedings in a court or tribunal or complying with an order of a court or a tribunal.

In addition to the purposes set out above there are certain exceptions to copyright relating to Royal Mail postal information which permit you to use copyrighted material for specific and limited purposes. These include non-commercial research and private study, subject to compliance with certain conditions. Further information about these exceptions can be found here: Exceptions to copyright - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Where you publish or otherwise share address data with any other person for any of the purposes permitted under this copyright notice, you must include a copy of this copyright notice with the data.

Any use of address data which is not specified in this notice or covered by one of the copyright exceptions requires an appropriate license and is subject to Royal Mail Group Limited’s relevant terms and conditions listed at: PAF - UK’s most accurate and up-to-date addressing database (poweredbypaf.com).

By using address data on this website you will be taken to agree to the terms set out in this copyright notice. Failure to comply with this copyright notice may lead to Royal Mail Group Limited taking legal action against you.

You can contact Royal Mail at: address.management@royalmail.com.

Privacy policy

The following is to explain your rights and give you the information you are entitled to under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

Cookies

We use cookies for user session management. These cookies do not store personally identifiable information and are not forwarded to third parties.

In addition, we use Google reCAPTCHA to protect from bots sending emails via this website. reCAPTCHA gathers user behaviour and device data and sends this to Google for analysis.

Information we collect and why we have it

The following information is collected, processed and stored from people visiting the website:

• Email addresses of users who have signed up and created an API key. API keys are associated to email addresses, which are stored securely in our self-hosted database. We will use your email address to give you (as a registered user) advanced warning of any changes to the published data or the functionality of the service. We may also use it for optional user feedback surveys. Deleting all API keys associated to an email will remove your email from our systems.
• Feedback and support requests that people leave, including email addresses. Your emails will go to our Gmail mailbox (see their privacy policy) and will never be forwarded to any third party. Correspondence emails are stored until they are asked to be deleted.
• Visitors’ session information (device, operating system, browser, referrer website and actions taken on this website) excluding any personally identifiable information, such as IP Addresses. These are stored securely in a self-hosted analytics platform and are never forwarded to any third party. This is used to improve the service.

Your rights and contacting us

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Right to object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at support@digitalsociety.coop if you wish to make a request.

Our postal address is Digital Society Ltd, Flat 2 10 Tinto Place, Edinburgh, EH6 5FL.

Complaints

You can complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk