Mmm, well this is one approach to take to the internet:
TERMS & CONDITIONS
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Do you want to add a link from your website to the Shropshire Council website? Do you want us to add a link to your website through our Community Directory?
Please email the Community Directory Officer () with ALL the following details:
link TO www.shropshire.gov.uk or a link FROM www.shropshire.gov.uk?
organisation
job title or position
name
address (including postcode)
telephone (including area code)
domain name of your website
brief description of the purpose and contents of your website
reasons for requesting a link
Alas, Shropshire Council have so far declined to respond to my request for a comment explaining the reason for this policy. Far be it from me to ignore it though, so if you want to find the source of the above copy and paste this address: http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/websiteinfo.nsf/open/2F5121395E2D0EE5802574C20047E748
Time methinks for a freedom of information request asking for the number of such requests the council has received and how many times it has taken action for links that don’t meet these conditions…
(For my previous post along similar lines about Hyndburn see here.)
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Far be it from me to ignore it though, so if you want to find the source of the above copy and paste this address: http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/websiteinfo.nsf/open/2F5121395E2D0EE5802574C20047E748
You do realise you’ve breached their copyright by quoting from their terms and conditions without permission?
LOL the commenting system has automatically turned that into a link. #tubesfailwin
Oh no! I never thought of that …
A policy designed by someone with about the same level of understanding as Jen in the IT Crowd from the look of it. I’m getting flashbacks to the episode with “the internet” in a black box with a red light on it at the moment.
Actually, there’s another little gem on that page we’re not allowed to link to:
“Images on this website are provided for the enhancement of this website only. Users of the website are not permitted to download any of the images provided on this website.”
Mark really should have warned us to adjust our browser settings accordingly before visiting the site.
comment from a friend on twitter: “they may want to update their robots.txt file in that case, or have Google and co filled in the paperwork.”
I’m impressed – you read all the Ts&Cs…