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1.2 Subject to Clause 5 below (special conditions applying to the Comparative Tables section of the FSA website) you may print and download extracts from this site on the following conditions:
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5. Special additional terms and conditions applying to the Comparative Tables section of the FSA website.
5.1 You can print and download extracts from the Comparative Tables section of the FSA website on the following conditions. These apply in addition to, or (where indicated) in place of, the other conditions specified in this section headed Legal Information.
5.2 If you intend to publish material from this site, to use it in promotions, advertising or product literature or in some other form in the public domain, then you must comply with the following terms.
5.2.1. Our copyright notice (i.e. © The Financial Services Authority) must appear in all copies.
5.2.2. The date that we last updated the information (as indicated on the website) must be stated clearly on all copies, with the website address (www.fsa.gov.uk/tables); for example “Information taken from the FSA’s Comparative Tables (www.fsa.gov.uk/tables) as at [date]”.
5.2.3. The publication must not imply FSA endorsement of any company or product or of any conclusions drawn from the data.
5.2.4. Any tables must either:
- be presented complete and with no additions; or
- if one or more tables is not complete, state that the information is based on a limited selection taken from the tables prepared by the FSA; for example “Selected from a total of [total number of products shown on website or printed table] products”.
5.2.5. If you include additional data, you must distinguish it from the data provided by FSA and clearly identify its source.
5.2.6. If you present our data in non-alphabetical order, you must make clear the basis for the way you have ordered it and must not indicate or imply any FSA endorsement of the ordering.
5.3 Information from this site is freely available for research. However, if you use or quote this material to a client in connection with a financial product or service, then – in addition to complying with the conditions in 5.2 above – you must give the client a print of the appropriate table. This should be:
5.3.1. as filtered and sorted by you;
5.3.2. complete in that it should include all products that remain after filtering, not just any you have shortlisted;
5.3.3. accompanied by the supporting introduction and column explanation pages;
5.3.4. as created using the print function on this site, without amendment.
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