Advisory Notice

When placing a copyright notice at the bottom of a page on your website, please remember that it only relates to any content that you have personally created, and not to any material created by any other person and which you are using with their permission. Whilst the owner's terms for reproducing their material may vary, it is generally recommended that you should always include a text acknowledgment on the same page as their material is used to clearly identify who the real owner is, and that the material is being used with their permission. If you do not follow this guideline, then you are misleading visitors into thinking that the work is by you.

Accordingly, it is a condition of applying for the Witheridge Award that copyright ownership to all work should be noted on the page where the work resides. Therefore, any image or other material which you use and which you KNOW belongs to another and which is not covered by a written credit on the page where it is situated will be considered as being a copyright violation. The use of a separate credits page will not be considered sufficient to cover this.

A word of caution: If you make use of material which you believe is in the public domain, you should be aware that  I take the view that the placing of such disclaimers as, "If you find anything on this page that belongs to you please contact me or if you feel that I may be violating another persons copyright please let me know" as an admission that you are unsure of the legality of the material.

If you do not know who owns the material in question, then you should not be using it, and as such any such use will be regarded as a copyright violation.

Some of the graphics used on this site come from Offwell Woodland and Wildlife Trust, from whom I hold written permission to reproduce images from their site on this website. These will be indicated on the page on which the graphics appear as Copyright Offwell Trust. Other images are used with the kind written permission of semi-professional wildlife and landscape photographer John Gardner, and again will be marked on the page on which the graphics appear as Copyright John Gardner @ wildscenes.com. I also hold written permission from Devon County Council to make use of any material from their website as it is already in the public domain, and this will be marked on the page on which the graphics appear as Courtesy of DCC.

All Awards are copyrighted to the respective owners or issuing award programs and are reproduced unaltered. Compliance logos are reproduced in line with that organisations declared policy, and are not separately indicated.

Many, if not all, of the remaining pictures were either taken by myself, and will be indicated on the page in question as Copyright by DCT. Ownership of all other local pictures will also be acknowledged on the page in question. Advertisements for accommodation may include information previously published on another site, but reproduced here with the permission of the owner of the said information. These will be clearly acknowledged on the relevant page. No images reproduced on this site come from an unknown source, if I do not have permission, then in line with this sites declared policy, I will not use the said image.