Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
1. Why this notice exists
Friam Limited builds compliance products for regulated UK industries. To do that, our products reproduce and summarise UK legislation and official guidance — for example, the text of Acts and Regulations, and the official guidance that explains how those rules apply. We do this so that the firms we serve can understand the duties that apply to them, and evidence that they have met them.
That source material is Crown copyright. The UK government makes the large majority of it available for reuse under the Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0. This notice records our reliance on that licence and gives the attribution the licence requires.
2. The sources we draw on
The public sector information our products reproduce or summarise comes principally from:
- legislation.gov.uk — the official home of UK legislation, published by The National Archives. Legislation text is Crown copyright and is made available for reuse under the Open Government Licence.
- GOV.UK — official guidance, statutory codes of practice, and regulator publications. Most of this material is Crown copyright and is likewise available for reuse under the Open Government Licence.
Where a specific regulator, scheme, or other body publishes its own material under different terms, we honour those terms; this notice covers the public sector information we reuse under the OGL.
3. The attribution
As required by the Open Government Licence, we acknowledge the source of the public sector information we reuse with the following attribution statement, which appears in the footer of our Legal & Trust Centre and is reproduced here:
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The full text of the licence is published by The National Archives at nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
4. What the licence permits — and our responsibility to you
The Open Government Licence is a permissive licence: it lets us copy, publish, adapt, and build on the licensed information, including for our products, provided we acknowledge the source as above and do not use the information in a misleading way.
Reproducing or summarising legislation is not the same as giving legal advice, and the licence does not warrant that the information is accurate or up to date. We take care to keep the material we surface current, and we tell customers what changed and why when we update it — but you should always refer to the primary source on legislation.gov.uk or GOV.UK, and take your own legal advice where your specific obligations are in question. How we use AI to help draft and summarise compliance content, and the human oversight we apply, is set out in our AI Ethics & Transparency Policy.
5. Trade marks and our own content
The Open Government Licence does not cover departmental or public body logos, crests, or trade marks, and we do not reproduce those under it. It also does not extend to our own original content — our software, templates, scoring criteria, training material, and design assets remain the property of Friam Limited or its licensors, as set out in our Terms of Service.
6. Questions
If you have a question about our reuse of public sector information, or you believe we have reproduced something incorrectly, contact us at legal@everyguard.uk and we will review and correct it promptly.