Copyright

The material featured on this website (www.scottishdocuments.com) is essentially of three kinds:

• (a) the written content of the website and small images for illustration purposes,
• (b) digital images of church court records, and
• (c) design and software applications which encompass the structure of the website.

Written website content and associated (small) images
The written content of the website and small, illustrative images are Crown copyright protected unless otherwise indicated. The Crown copyright protected material may be reproduced free of charge according to the permitted use paragraph below. The permission to reproduce Crown protected material does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Digital images of church court records
The purpose of the Scottish Documents website is to allow testing of the online delivery of digital copies of historical records to authenticated users. The images are derived from the records of church courts (kirk sessions, presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland), and of courts of secession churches which rejoined the Church of Scotland at various times. The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) administers copyright in the original records on behalf of the Church of Scotland. The digital images of the church records are Crown copyright protected unless otherwise stated.

Design and software applications
This website was designed by the National Archives of Scotland. All copyright and any and all other intellectual property rights in and to the design of this website and the software applications utilised on this website are Crown copyright protected and visitors to this website are not permitted to copy, modify, adapt or use any aspect of the design of this website or the software applications utilised on this website without permission.

Image Viewer
Portions of the Scottish Document Image Viewer were developed using the OpenSeadragon open-source image viewer. These portions of the site are Copyright © 2009 CodePlex Foundation and Copyright © 2010-2013 OpenSeadragon contributors.

Permitted use
Visitors to this website are granted permission to access this material, to download and copy such material on to electronic, magnetic, optical or similar storage media and to make printed copies of any such downloaded material, provided that such activities and copies are for non-commercial private study and research. The Crown copyright protected material may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided it is reproduced accurately, not used in a misleading context and is acknowledged. For a suggested form of acknowledgement see under ‘acknowledging copyright’ below.

Acknowledging copyright
When reproducing information on this website which is Crown Copyright, the acknowledgement “National Archives of Scotland” should be used along with the generic website address (www.scottishdocuments.com). When reproducing digital images of church court records the acknowledgement should be in the form of “National Archives of Scotland” along with the reference number of the image, for example “CH2/123/4”.

Linking to this website
The NAS encourages users to establish hypertext links to the Scottish Documents website but recommends that the generic website address (www.scottishdocuments.com) should be used, rather than specific page addresses.