Licences

Promap and the Ordnance Survey work together to ensure that mapping is protected under Crown copyright by virtue of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Copying of mapping can be authorised under different copyright licences depending upon the intended use.

Internal Business Use Licence

The Internal Business Licence is for businesses who to wish to use Ordnance Survey data as a tool to support their day to day administration and operations.

They key provisions of the IBU Licence are as follows:

• Use within your business as a tool to support your day-to-day administration and operations
• Limited rights to share data with other users (subject to additional licensing requirements)
• Limited rights granted to use the Ordnance Survey data for promotional purposes
• Licence is valid for 12 months only (from date of licensing)
• The production of reports for clients is allowed

Please note that this licence does not permit:

• Any rights to use the data for any other purpose after one year unless licence is renewed at end of the licence period
• Rights to archive data beyond the term of the licence
• Rights to commercially exploit the underlying OS data in any way
• Unlimited production of paper copies from data during licence period
• The use of Ordnance Survey trademarks