Warning! Do not link to Shropshire Council website without first completing paperwork

Mmm, well this is one approach to take to the internet:

TERMS & CONDITIONS

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 ([email protected]) 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)

email

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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7 Comments

  • Anthony Aloysius St 23rd Jul '10 - 12:59pm

    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?

  • Anthony Aloysius St 23rd Jul '10 - 1:22pm

    Oh no! I never thought of that …

  • Victoria Cleaton 23rd Jul '10 - 2:46pm

    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.

  • Anthony Aloysius St 23rd Jul '10 - 2:51pm

    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.

  • Victoria Cleaton 23rd Jul '10 - 3:15pm

    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…

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