PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

Who we are and how to contact us

www.raremap.co.uk is a site operated by LifeArc (“we”, “our”, “us”). LifeArc is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under registration number 1015243 and a charity registered in Scotland with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator under registration number SC037861. LifeArc is also a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales under company number 2698321 whose registered office is at Lynton House, 7-12 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9LT.

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

• Our Privacy Policy www.raremap.co.uk/privacy-policy-2 which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
• Our Cookie Policy www.raremap.co.uk/cookies, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 15 July 2026.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to ensure that the information provided remains accurate and up to date.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for organisational and operational reasons.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms of use, and that they comply with them.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will aim to notify you if this happens by way of a notice on the website.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or licensee of the intellectual property rights in our site, which are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

As LifeArc is a registered charity, the content on our site is intended for the public benefit and any private benefit to any person arising from use of the content from our site is only incidental.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these terms of use).

No text or data mining, or web scraping

Unauthorised automated access or data extraction is not permitted.

You must not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any large-scale or systematic text or data mining, web scraping, or automated extraction of data from this site for commercial purposes or for the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of artificial intelligence systems or models, without our prior written consent. This includes the use of robots, bots, spiders, scrapers or other automated tools to access, copy, monitor or republish substantial portions of the site or its content.

However, this restriction does not apply to:

• legitimate search engine indexing in accordance with our robots.txt file; or

• reasonable non-commercial use of the site in line with these terms.

Contributions to our site

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to the site (including any text, graphics, trade marks) you agree, by submitting your contribution, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, remove, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with our Privacy Policy https://raremap.co.uk/privacy-policy-2/.

If you do not want to grant us the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to the site.

By submitting your contribution to the site you warrant that your contribution:

Is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available for all the purposes specified above and it complies with the requirements imposed by these terms.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact contact@raremap.co.uk.

Our trade marks are registered

”LIFEARC” (figurative) and “LifeArc” (word) are UK registered trade marks of LifeArc. You are not permitted to use them without our prior written approval.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is not a form of association, approval or endorsement of any third party. We accept no responsibility for losses arising from re-use of content on our site without conducting your own due diligence.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

We do not endorse, control or assume responsibility for the content, accuracy, legality or completeness of any information, products or services offered by these external sites. We shall not be liable for any loss, damage or harm arising from your use of these links or reliance on the information provided by third parties. Please note that third-party websites may have different security, privacy and data protection practices than ours, and accessing such websites is entirely at your own risk. We are not responsible for the protection of any information you provide to these external sites. We strongly recommend reviewing the terms of use and privacy policies of any third-party website before engaging with them.

We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We only provide our site for non-commercial information purposes only. We accept no responsibility for losses arising from reliance on information contained on our site or other sites that we may link to from time to time. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any:

• loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with our site.
• loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity or indirect or consequential loss or damage.

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

Which country’s laws apply to a dispute

Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims), are governed by English law and the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.