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External web links guidelines

We include links to organisations that users may find helpful, across a range of subject areas - including to external websites or third parties.

These links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

If you have any queries about information accessed through links, please check directly with the organisation concerned.

External links on our website are reviewed regularly. But if you find a broken link or a link directing you to website material you feel is unsuitable, please provide feedback.

Due to the large number of marketing emails we receive, we don't generally accept new requests for links to be added to our pages. We do not accept links for commercial or political organisations.

Our criteria:

  • Information is relevant to specific content on this site or to the council as a whole
  • Up-to-date and authoritative information
  • Free from offensive material, political or religious bias
  • Free to access
  • A government organisation, public organisation, charity or other publicly known and trusted organisation
  • Transparent with respect to its ownership, funding and purposes
  • Non-commercial (unless supporting the council to meet its aims and priorities - i.e. sponsorship)
Directory request

Please do not contact us again if your link does not appear on our site. Each site will be looked at in the context of the other information we provide and will only be added if it is considered to meet the criteria as set out above, and meets government-mandated accessibility standards. It should also meet the standards laid out in the DCLG Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity, and not conflict with the Constitution of North Northamptonshire Council.

We reserve the right to remove links without notice or explanation (in particular if a website is not well maintained and up-to-date) or does not meet reasonable accessibility and usability requirements.

Using our support directories and what we include on them
  1. Our directories are intended to provide a convenient (but non-exhaustive) list of organisations and services that provide support in various areas. By using this website the user is deemed to accept
    the following terms and conditions
  2. We may add private local businesses or companies if they are working with us on certain projects and if its deemed suitable (at our discretion)
  3. We are not an agent of any businesses or organisations listed on this website and it is not affiliated to (or a partner of) any listed business or organisation. The listing of the details of any organisation or business on this website should not be seen as an endorsement of that business or its products or services
  4. Although the information displayed on this website is listed by us in good faith, the council has not itself checked the goods and services of any organisation or businesses listed
  5. Accordingly, the council does not warrant or guarantee that any goods or services that organisations or businesses offered are:

    (a) fit for purpose
    (b) suitable
    (c) safe or
    (d) that they the offer best value available.

    Any liability of the council is excluded to the fullest extent possible in law
  6. We recommend that users check the qualifications of people, companies and organisations offering the goods or services. This website should not be relied upon for advice about the goods and services listed
  7. Further this website is not intended to supplant or replace other sources of information including those of educational or social care providers (e.g. the primary source for the rating of care homes in the United Kingdom is the Care Quality Commission
  8. We do not rank organisations or businesses in a preferred or recommended order
  9. Where the listing contains hyperlinks to websites we do not control, and are not responsible for, any other websites
    linked to. Users access and use these sites at their own risk.
  10. Although we are not in a position to indemnify users for any alleged failings of the organisations listed, it nevertheless wants members of the public to be able to use this website with confidence. Accordingly, we will not knowingly tolerate the use of this website as a platform for the promotion of fraudulent or illegal trading activity.
  11. In the event of any users consider that their consumer rights have been infringed by any business or organisation listed on this website they are encouraged to disclose their concerns to us and report the
    improper trading activities.
  12. In appropriate cases, we will remove the listing of any organisation if we believe it has breached
    consumer legislation or trades unlawfully or acted inappropriately

If you have a website, you are welcome to link to the North Northamptonshire Council web site without requesting permission.

Our homepage address is www.northnorthants.gov.uk and should be labelled 'North Northamptonshire Council'. You can also link to any other page within the site using the appropriate URL.

You may link to us from your site as long as our site appears in its normal form (i.e. it does not appear inside your own frameset, with any advertising, or in such a way as to pass off the material as your own).

Please respect our copyright.

Our logo is subject to copyright law.

You must seek our permission before using it in any links to this site.

Last updated 04 September 2025