Royal Mail PAF ® terms

Client may freely use PAF® Data in Solutions in accordance with these Client Terms.

Client must not make copies of PAF® Data except as permitted by these terms or reasonably necessary for back-up, security, business continuity and system testing purposes.

Client may use PAF® Data for Data Extraction but Extracted Data:

(i) may only be accessed by Users, and

(ii) must not be supplied or any access to it provided to any third party. Client must not permit access to, display or communicate to the public any Solutions, except for the purposes of capturing or confirming address details of third parties.

Except as set out in these terms, Client must not:

(i) transfer, assign, sell or licence Solutions or their use to any other person,

(ii) use Solutions to create a product or service distributed or sold to any third party which relies on any use of PAF® Data, including copying, looking up or enquiring, publishing, searching, analysing, modifying and reformatting, or

(iii) copy, reproduce, extract, reutilise or publish Solutions or any of them. Client may provide PAF® Data to their subcontractors who may use it to the extent necessary for: (a) the provision of information technology services to the Client, or (b) acting on behalf of the Client, in each case for the Client’s own business purposes and not those of the sub-contractor and provided that each such sub-contractor agrees to observe the restrictions on use of PAF® Data contained in these Client Terms and that the Client is responsible for any breaches of those terms by such sub-contractor.

Client rights are personal, limited and non-transferable.

The Client acknowledges that Royal Mail is the owner of the intellectual property rights in PAF® Data and the PAF® brand and it does not acquire and is not granted any rights to use those intellectual property rights other than as set out in these Client Terms.

Client must cease use of PAF® Data if their right to use PAF® Data is terminated and also destroy any copies of PAF® Data they hold. Client must ensure that: (a) these Client Terms bind their Users, (b) only their Users exercise the use rights of Solutions and PAF® Data granted to Client further to these Client Terms, and (c) in the event of termination or expiry of Client’s rights to use Solutions and PAF® Data, the rights of Users to use them also terminate. 

User: an individual authorised by Client to use a Solution; Royal Mail: Royal Mail Group Limited, acting by its Address Management Unit; 

PAF® Data: Royal Mail’s database known as PAF®, and including the database known as the “Alias File”; 

Data Extraction: the extraction of PAF® Data or any part of it for the generation of new address records in a new or existing database; 

Solution: a product or service or other solution which benefits from or includes PAF® Data (including the provision of PAF® Data itself), in whatever form, however produced or distributed and whether or not including other functionality, services, software or data.