These Terms and Conditions govern your use of the Mapdata.uk website and any services provided through it. By accessing or using this site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions in full.

This site is owned and operated by Mapdata.uk, a trading name of Chuangyi Limited, registered in England and Wales under company number 10476824 (“Mapdata.uk”, “we”, “us”, “our”). All services, data products and transactions offered through Mapdata.uk are supplied by Chuangyi Limited.

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. If you do not agree with any part of them, you should stop using the site and our services immediately.

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In these Terms and Conditions, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

• “Business Hours” means 9.00 am – 5.00 pm on any Business Day.
• “Business Day” means Monday to Friday, inclusive, but does not include national, public, or bank holidays.
• “Customer”, “you”, “your” means the business that has registered to use the Site (and any individual registrant is deemed to act on behalf of their business).
• “Data” means any information contained on the Site, in the Products and the Services.
• “Data Reports” means the reports available on the Site.
• “Data Suppliers” means our third party data suppliers who provide Products or Services including, but not limited to: British Geological Survey; Oceanwise; Getmapping; HM Land Registry and/or Ordnance Survey.
• “Distributor” means the organisation in which this service is integrated into. Find is the distributor.
• “Intellectual Property Rights” means all copyright, patent rights, trade or service marks, design right, rights in or relating to databases, rights in or relating to confidential information, and any other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world.
• “Licence” means the licence granted by Mapdata.uk to you under these Terms and Conditions in respect of the Products and the Services.
• “Ordnance Survey Data” means data which is provided by Ordnance Survey.
• “OS” means Ordnance Survey.
• “PMCL” means Paper Map Copyright Licence.
• “Price List” means the price of each of the Products and the Services for which Mapdata.uk shall charge.
• “PAF Data” means the database, or any part of it, known as the ‘Postcode Address File’ containing all known address and Postcode information in the United Kingdom as may be amended from time to time. ‘PAF’ is a registered trademark of Royal Mail Group plc.
• “Plot” means the representation of Data on (i) a hard copy medium; or (ii) a file capable of electronic storage which does not allow interaction with any other Data, and in particular, does not allow access to that part of the source Data which identifies the National Grid coordinates of any of the Ordnance Survey Data represented.
• “Products” means any product available on the Site.
• “Services” means any services available on the Site.
• “Site” means the web site located at the URL www.mapdata.uk or any other additional or replacement site(s) from time to time.
• “Terms and Conditions” means these terms and conditions which govern your use of the Site, and the Services and the sale and purchase of Products.

1. General use of the Site

1. You agree and acknowledge that when you are using the Site and purchasing or receiving any Products or Services, that you are legally bound by these Terms and Conditions. Some of our Data Suppliers also apply additional specific terms and conditions which are available below and on the Site. You are also bound by these where relevant.
2. Mapdata.uk on behalf of Mapdata.uk may, from time to time, amend or update these Terms and Conditions without notice to you. As such, you should check these Terms and Conditions each time you access the Site. In using the Site (and purchasing or receiving any Products or Services), you agree to any updates or amendments to these Terms and Conditions.
3. Mapdata.uk on behalf of Mapdata.uk may, in its sole discretion, suspend or terminate your use of the Site if, in Mapdata.uk’s reasonable opinion, it believes that you may have contravened these Terms and Conditions.
4. This Site and the use of the Products and the Services are intended for use by businesses only and not for non-professional or non-business use.
5. These Terms and Conditions, together with any Data Supplier specific terms of use and together with Mapdata.uk’s Privacy Policy contains all the terms applicable concerning your use of the Site and the purchase or receipt of Products and Services.
6. When you use this Site, and when you purchase or receive Products or Services, you do so on behalf of the business for whom you work and these Terms and Conditions constitute a contract between us and that business. That business is responsible for all your acts and omissions and reference to “Customer”, “you” and “your” means you on behalf of that business.
7. You must keep your account details (including, in particular, contact details) up-to-date at all times and update them, as necessary, by contacting the “Distributor” through any of their specified methods.

2. Relationship between Mapdata.uk and Data Suppliers

1. Unless otherwise expressly stated, Mapdata.uk is not and does not represent, that it is in partnership with, that it has entered into a joint venture with, or that it is an agent of, any Data Supplier (nor does it hold itself out as doing so).
2. Mapdata.uk does not have (nor does it hold itself out to have) the authority to enter into any agreement on behalf of a Data Supplier, make any representations, undertakings or warranties on a Data Supplier’s behalf nor does it seek to otherwise bind or oblige a Data Suppliers in any way. This does not affect the enforceability of any Data Supplier specific terms between you and a Data Supplier.

3. Scope of licence

1. You may only use the Site, the Products or the Services within the scope of the Licence below. For the avoidance of doubt, any reference to the Licence shall include reference to any Data Supplier’s specific terms and conditions. If it comes to the attention of Mapdata.uk that you have acted outside of the scope of the Licence, Mapdata.uk reserves the right without exception to suspend and or terminate your use and access to the Site. In doing so, this shall not prohibit Mapdata.uk from taking any other action it considers necessary and appropriate in order to protect its Intellectual Property Rights, or the Intellectual Property Rights of its Data Suppliers.
2. In the event that you wish to use the Site or any Products or Services for any purpose outside of the scope of the Licence and these Terms and Conditions, you must first contact Mapdata.uk in writing describing in full the intended use of the Site, the Products or Services (as applicable). Mapdata.uk and its Data Suppliers are not under any obligation to allow any such use.
3. Mapdata.uk on behalf of Mapdata.uk grants you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the Site, the Products and the Services for business use, subject to the following. Unless otherwise stated (including those set out in “Additional requirements, exceptions and variations to the Licence” at Section 6) you shall have no right to:
   • resell access to the Site or Services, or resell the Products (including copies of the Products), or any part of the same; or
   • modify, merge, market, translate, publish or alter the Site, the Products or the Services; or
   • use the Site, the Products or the Services together with any product provided through the Site other than for internal business purposes only; or
   • display the Site, the Products or the Services (including copies of any part of them) to third parties; or
   • create any product containing, derived from or based on the Site, the Products or the Services, nor allow anyone else to do the same; or
   • sub-licence any of the Intellectual Property Rights (or purport to own any Intellectual Property Rights) contained in the Site, the Products or the Services.

4. General Intellectual Property Rights provisions

1. All Intellectual Property Rights in the Site, the Products and the Services are and shall remain at all times the property of Mapdata.uk and/or its Data Suppliers and/or its other third party licensors.
2. No provision in these Terms and Conditions shall act in a way to effect the assignment or transfer of any Intellectual Property Rights in the Site the Products and/or the Services.
3. You may not and shall not delete, remove, alter, amend, obscure or add any copyright notice, logo, trade or service mark from the Site, the Products and/or the Services, unless any other part of these Terms and Conditions expressly oblige you to do so.
4. You may not and shall not modify, adapt, reverse engineer or enhance the Site, the Products and/or the Services.
5. You must immediately notify Mapdata.uk (i) if you suspect that use of the Site, the Products and/or the Services may infringe any third party Intellectual Property Rights or other third party rights; and, of any claims or proceedings brought against you that may affect the rights and interests of Mapdata.uk or any of its Data Suppliers in respect of any Intellectual Property Rights in the Site, the Products and/or the Services. In each case, you will permit Mapdata.uk in the name of the Customer to have full conduct or control of any related proceedings or negotiations.

5. Licence period

1. Unless otherwise stated, you may use the Plot for a period of 12 months from the date on which the Plot was purchased.
2. The Customer must hold a valid Ordnance Survey Paper Map Copyright Licence in order to make further copies or re-use any Ordnance Survey Plots supplied from this Services. A PMCL can be purchased here.

6. Additional requirements, exceptions and variations to the Licence

1. HM Land Registry:
   • You will not use, process or forward the product or service provided by the HM Land Registry through this Site for any purpose other than for marketing literature.
   • The provisions in Section 15 shall not restrict or affect a person’s entitlement to claim indemnity from HM Land Registry under section 103 and Schedule 8 of the Land Registration Act 2002.
   • The provision and use of the HM Land Registry elements through this Site are subject to the provisions in the Land Registration Rules 2003 and Land Charges Rules 1974 and the conditions contained in the Notice of the Chief Land Registrar relating to the Connect Direct service provided to you through this Site.
2. Ordnance Survey:
   • You acknowledge and agree that the Crown (or, where applicable, Ordnance Survey’s suppliers) owns the Intellectual Property Rights in the Ordnance Survey Data. All Ordnance Survey Data licenced to Mapdata.uk shall remain the property of the Crown (or, where applicable, Ordnance Survey’s suppliers) and Mapdata.uk’s use or possession of any Ordnance Survey Data does not give Mapdata.uk any ownership of or other interest in any of the Ordnance Survey Data. Title to any copies that you or Mapdata.uk make of Ordnance Survey Data shall pass to Ordnance Survey on their creation.
   • You agree and acknowledge in respect of the Service on this Site unless the Customer holds a valid OS PMCL that:
     • each Plot file is limited to a maximum term of twelve months from the date of creation; and
     • you are only licenced to use each Plot file internally for your own business use; and
     • you may only print one copy from a Plot file; and
     • you are not permitted to photocopy any hard copy medium Plots under this Licence.

7. Pricing

1. You shall pay the price for the Products and the Services in accordance with the Price List which can be requested from Find. In each case, the price shall be paid without any deduction, set off, counterclaim, abatement or other similar deduction.
2. Where Mapdata.uk invoices you for a number of Products or Services at the same time, any failure by Mapdata.uk or the Data Supplier to provide any one of those elements shall not entitle you to withhold payment for the remainder which it has received.
3. Invoices are due for payment on grant of the Licence, and shall be submitted at the discretion of Find. Mapdata.uk reserves the right to charge interest at the rate of 5% per month accruing daily if payment is not received within 30 Days.
4. All prices contained in the Price List shall be exclusive of VAT unless otherwise stated.
5. Mapdata.uk may, at its absolute discretion, change the pricing structure and/or the Price List at any time without notice.
6. You agree not to circumvent the charging procedure operated through the Site.

8. Termination and consequences of termination

1. Subject to any other provision in these Terms and Conditions, you may continue to use the Site providing your account remains active with Find. If your account is inactive for a period of 12 consecutive months we reserve the right to deactivate your account.
2. If Mapdata.uk on behalf of Mapdata.uk terminates your use of this Site where you are in breach of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions, you will not be allowed to access the Site.
3. Expiry or termination of these Terms and Conditions however caused, and for whatever reason, shall be without prejudice to any rights or liabilities accrued at the date of termination or expiry and in particular without limitation to any foregoing right to recover damages from each other.

9. Passwords

1. You must keep your password confidential at all times, and must not disclose the password or permit anyone else to use your password. Any breach of any of this term by anyone to whom you disclose the password will be treated as if the breach had been committed by you, and will not relieve you of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
2. We reserve the right to disable access to the site, at any time, if in our opinion you have breached any of these Terms and Conditions, including if any details you provide for the purposes of registering to use the Site prove to be false. In the event of any failure or error in the operation of a password, you shall cease using the password and exit the Site immediately, and notify Mapdata.uk of such failure or error. You must cease to use and delete the password from any of your records upon expiry or termination of your subscription for whatever reason.
3. Mapdata.uk reserves the right to change your password and username at any time in its sole discretion and you agree to notify Mapdata.uk promptly of any changes to your registration details.

10. Information on the Site

1. Mapdata.uk and its Data Suppliers reserve the right (without any obligation) to update the information, the interface and/or the services provided on or through this Site at any time with or without notice. Mapdata.uk will work with the Data Suppliers to update the information on the Site so that it is accurate and up to date within reason. However, you acknowledge that the type of Data displayed on the Site is subject to constant change and that as such it quickly become out of date and neither Mapdata.uk nor the Data Suppliers warrant the accuracy, completeness or currency of the Data provided through the Site.
2. Where possible, and within reason (but subject at all times to Mapdata.uk’s sole discretion) Mapdata.uk shall work with its Data Suppliers to inform and give notice to you, where reasonably possible, of any updates or inaccuracies in the Products, the Services or on the Site.
3. You acknowledge and agree that you shall not rely on the currency and accuracy of the Products and the Services and that you shall make your own independent enquiries or procure the services of professional advisers where you wishes to rely on such information.
4. It is your responsibility to ensure that the Products and Services are fit for the purpose that you require.
5. You agree that you are responsible for inputting data which is relevant to your search and requirements, and that neither Mapdata.uk nor the Data Suppliers shall have any liability in the event that any information is submitted incorrectly or incompletely. You agree that you will bear any costs already incurred or which will be incurred for any Products or Services where you have submitted incorrect or incomplete data.

11. Website availability and maintenance

1. Mapdata.uk is under no obligation to provide the Services on the Site outside of Business Hours (and in any event the Site will be subject to downtime from time to time including for maintenance as specified below).
2. Mapdata.uk may suspend the operation of the Site for repair or maintenance work or in order to update or upgrade the content, Data or functionality of the Site from time to time. Access to or use of the Site, the Product, the Services or pages linked to it will not be uninterrupted or error free.

12. Liability

1. We are not allowed to exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud, or that we will use reasonable care and skill in providing the Services, or for any other liability which may not by applicable law be excluded or limited and we do not do so.
2. Subject to Section 14.1, Mapdata.uk shall not be liable to you or any third party (whether for breach of contract, negligence or for any other reason) for any: loss of profits; loss of sales; loss of revenue; loss of any software or data; loss of use of hardware; loss of use of software or data; loss of business resources; wasted management or staff time; any inaccuracy or incompleteness in, or delays, errors or omissions in the delivery of the Service, Product; any decision made or action taken by you in reliance upon the Service, Product or Data Report; or any indirect loss, consequential loss or special loss.
3. Subject to the preceding paragraphs in this Section 14, if Mapdata.uk is in breach of any of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions, Mapdata.uk’s liability shall be limited to the lesser of (i) £2,000; and (ii) 125% the fees paid by you (in respect of the Site, the Product and the Services) in the 12 months preceding the date upon which the act gave rise to the liability occurring.
4. If you discover that there is a defect within the content of the Product or the Service, you shall contact Mapdata.uk in writing notifying it of the defect. Subject to Section 14.1, Mapdata.uk shall have no liability to you if you do not do so within (i) 7 days of discovering the defect; or (ii) 90 days from receiving the Product, Data, Data Report or Service.
5. Subject to Section 14.1, Mapdata.uk shall not be responsible for errors or corruption in the Products and the Services resulting from inaccuracy or omission in information and/or data, inaccurate processing of information and data by third parties including the Data Suppliers, or for computer malfunction or corruption of data whilst in the course of providing the Products and the Services.
6. Mapdata.uk warrants that the Services will be provided with reasonable care and skill. Subject to the foregoing, all representations, guarantees, warranties, undertakings, conditions and any other term (whether express or implied by statute or common law) as to fitness of the Site, the Products and the Services for a particular purpose or satisfactory quality are expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted under English law.

13. Indemnities

1. You shall indemnify Mapdata.uk against all claims, losses, costs, liabilities, expenses and damages (whether direct or indirect) for the following:
   • any losses that Mapdata.uk discover or may incur following its undertaking of a compliance audit of the Customer (which shall be undertaken in accordance with the auditing provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions), including in relation to any losses which may arise as a result of non-compliance with these Terms and Conditions;
   • any use of the Site, the Products or the Services (i) outside the scope of the Licence; or (ii) in contravention of these Terms and Conditions.

14. Compliance with applicable law

1. You will comply with all requirements under applicable law in relation to the Site, the Products and the Services.

15. Auditing rights

1. You shall be obliged to maintain and keep copies of records relating to the purchase and use of the Products and the Services through this Site.
2. You agree that Mapdata.uk, upon the provision of reasonable written notice, shall be entitled to inspect your records and you grant access to all relevant personnel for the purposes of conducting a compliance audit in order to ensure that the Products and the Services it has provided is being used in accordance with these Terms and Conditions including the Data Supplier specific terms and conditions. You agree that, where required to do so, Mapdata.uk shall be entitled to provide your details to a Data Supplier for the same purposes and generally for the purposes of enforcing the Data Supplier’s rights.

16. Disputes and governing law

1. In respect of any disputes concerning anything which is covered by these Terms and Conditions you agree that disputes shall first be attempted to be resolved amicably by your senior management and Mapdata.uk’s senior management.
2. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by English law, and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

17. General

1. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions are deemed void, unlawful or otherwise unenforceable for any reason, that provision shall be severed from this agreement and the remaining provisions of this agreement shall remain in force.
2. In the event that any provisions within these Terms and Conditions conflict with the Data Supplier specific terms and conditions, these Terms and Conditions shall prevail. When one set of terms is more restrictive than another in respect of the same subject matter, the more restrictive set will apply.
3. You shall not, unless expressly otherwise permitted, contact the Data Suppliers directly.
4. Mapdata.uk shall not be liable for failure to perform its obligations under these Terms and Conditions if caused by or resulting from force majeure which shall include, but not be limited to events which are outside of its reasonable control.
5. Unless the parties expressly agree otherwise in writing, if a party either (i) fails to exercise or delays exercising or only exercises partially any right or remedy provided under these Terms and Conditions or by law or (ii) agrees not to exercise or to delay exercising any right or remedy provided under these Terms and Conditions or by law then that party shall not be deemed to have waived and shall not be precluded or restricted from further exercising that or any other right or remedy. Unless the parties expressly agree otherwise in writing, no right, power or remedy under these Terms and Conditions or otherwise available to a party is exclusive of any other right, power or remedy under this agreement or otherwise available to that party.
6. Mapdata.uk may assign or transfer any part or the whole of its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions at any time without the obligation to provide written notice. You shall not be entitled to assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions, without first having obtained the written consent of Mapdata.uk.
7. A person who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions shall have no right under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of these Terms and Conditions unless expressly stated in these Terms and Conditions. Any Data Supplier may enforce these Terms and Conditions, or any Data Supplier specific terms and conditions against you in accordance with Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
8. Any notices to Mapdata.uk must be made in writing to the following address: Chuangyi Limited, 6 Sun Street, Rugby, CV21 3NN. Any notices to you will be made either (i) in writing to you; or (ii) posted on this Site.
9. If you have questions regarding these Terms and Conditions, please email: support@mapdata.uk.
10. To review Mapdata.uk’s Privacy Policy, click here - Privacy Policy
11. These Terms and Conditions were last updated on 1st August 2026. '