Terms of use

Estyn.gov.wales is a government website managed by Estyn, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales, (‘We’). In entering our site you the user (‘You’) are accepting our Terms and Conditions.

We grant you a non-exclusive licence to use this website under the following terms and conditions. We may terminate this licence at any time without notice.

Intellectual Property

The names, images and logos identifying us are proprietary marks of Estyn. The other material contained in this website which includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics is protected by intellectual property laws including, but not limited to, copyright. Copying or use of the Estyn logo and/or any other third party logos or any other material accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner.

Use of our logo

The use of our logo is restricted. We do not allow schools or other education and training providers to use our logo for advertising or endorsement purposes.

The presence of our logo or name on any other website, publication or product should not be taken as endorsement of any kind by us.

If you are a working jointly with us on a publication or event, you can seek permission to use our logo by emailing 

You may view, use, download and store the material on this website for personal and research use only. Commercial use is not permitted. The re-distribution, re-publication, or otherwise making available of the material on this website to third parties is prohibited. Your unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

Hyperlinking to our website

You are welcome to link directly to pages hosted on this site and do not have to ask our permission. 

Portal owners

If you wish to include our web pages within a portal site then please contact the Stakeholder Engagement team at .

Linking from this website

We are not responsible for the content or reliability of links to other websites. Any links are not intended to be endorsements of those websites. Links to external sites may not always work and we have no control over this. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Virus protection

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from our website.

Disclaimer

Our website information, products and services (or third party information, products and services), are provided ‘as is’. We will be under no liability to you whatsoever whether in contract, tort, (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, restitution or otherwise for any injury, death, damage or direct, indirect or consequential loss (all three of which terms include, without limitation, pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and like loss) howsoever caused arising out of or in connection with the use of this website or the use, accessing, downloading or relying on any information or other materials contained in this website, including, without limitation, as a result of any computer virus.

These terms and conditions do not exclude our liability (if any) to you for personal injury or death resulting from our negligence, for fraud or for any matter which it would be illegal for us to exclude or to attempt to exclude from our liability.

Complete Agreement

These terms and conditions contain all the terms which we have agreed with you in relation to the use of the website.

Jurisdiction and Acceptance of these terms and conditions

This website is controlled and operated by Estyn, in Wales. The formation, existence, construction, performance, validity in all aspects whatsoever of these terms and conditions or of any term of these terms and conditions or any dispute in relation to the materials contained in this website, shall be governed by English law as applied in Wales. The English and Welsh courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with these terms and conditions or use of the website. 

In the event of inconsistencies between the English language version and the Welsh language version of these terms and conditions and privacy statement, the English language version will prevail. Your continued use of this website indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Translation

All content on this website has been translated by Trosol (English to Welsh).