Terms and Conditions

The parties to this agreement are any customer who uses the Portal (The User) and Historic Environment Scotland (the Provider).

The Portal are those pages on this website which are clearly labelled "Portal".

These Terms and Conditions apply solely to the Portal Pages. The Historic Environment Scotland Website Terms and Conditions also apply and are incorporated into your use of the Portal.

Data Provision

Data provided on this site is intended for information only. Professional advice should be sought from us at the earliest opportunity of planning proposed development or land management changes, or any other activity that could potentially affect a heritage asset. Please contact us for further advice as proposed development may require permissions in advance of any works.

Reliance on search function

Although this search function has been provided for convenience, if you intend to rely on the list, it is your responsibility to check the list as a whole and not rely exclusively on the search function. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of a reliance on the search function and failure to check the full list of designations.

Listed buildings

Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided.

Scheduled monuments

The legal document constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Further details are provided in the scheduled monument record for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.

Spatial Downloads

Spatial Downloads includes heritage data in a spatial format. All spatial downloads, except for Historic Landuse Assessment data, are available for use under the Open Government Licence for public sector information.

Please use the following attribution statement when re-using data licensed under the Open Government Licence: Contains Historic Environment Scotland and OS data © Historic Environment Scotland and Crown Copyright and [database right] (year), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Historic Landuse Assessment data is provided under an End User Licence, which you must register for.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Intellectual Property Rights for documentation supplied as part of an application are not held by Historic Environment Scotland. Permission to use this data must be sought from the relevant party.

Intellectual Property Rights for all maps are held by Ordnance Survey. Please see Use of maps section below for terms and conditions. Permission to use this data in any other way must be sought from the relevant party.

All other Intellectual Property rights in the material on this site belong to us.

Use of Maps

Use of maps, either on screen or in documents, is subject to the following terms and conditions.

You are granted a non-exclusive, royalty free, revocable licence solely to view the Licensed Data for non-commercial purposes for the period during which Historic Environment Scotland makes it available.

You are not permitted to copy, sub-license, distribute, sell or otherwise make available the Licensed Data to third parties in any form.

Third Party rights to enforce the terms of this licence shall be reserved to Ordnance Survey.

Use of Data

The material may be downloaded to file or printer for private or non-commercial uses only. You are not permitted to modify, adapt, arrange, alter, adjust or make any additions to any material.

Permission to reproduce copyright material on this site does not extend to any material identified as being the copyright of a third party.

Any other proposed use of the material is subject to the approval of Historic Environment Scotland. Please contact us to make an application.

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