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83 sources in the catalog, triaged by content-reuse licence (83 done) — openmeans we may extract & store the content, restricted means link-only, unknown means no clear signal was found. Filter by area or licence.
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- HRPlaybooks/guides/toolkitsRestricted
Free HR factsheets
Free HR factsheets
Roots HR ↗Licence: none found (all rights reserved)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
Roots HR (Roots Human Resources CIC) is a paid HR consultancy serving the UK social sector; its "free resources" (factsheets, toolkits, webinars, bulletins, blog) are lead-generation content obtained by submitting an email form, not open content. The sitewide footer states "All Rights Reserved," and the linked Terms & Conditions PDF is explicit: clause 12.1 says Roots HR "reserves all copyright, intellectual property and any other rights" in its documents and that materials are "licensed to you for your internal use only," while clause 12.3 prohibits copying, publishing or distributing them to any third party without prior written consent. Clause 15.3 expressly names "factsheet" among the pre-packaged content covered, and clause 13.8 forbids using their content to train AI/LLMs. I found no Creative Commons badge, OGL, public-domain, or any "free to share/adapt" statement on the homepage, the factsheets page, the free-resources hub, or the toolkits page; the only sense in which the factsheets are "free" is zero-cost access, not reuse rights. Caveats: the IP clauses sit in T&Cs framed around purchased consultancy services rather than a standalone website-content licence, so a strict reading leaves a small ambiguity about whether they bind a non-client downloader — but combined with the sitewide "All Rights Reserved" and internal-use-only language, extracting and storing this content is clearly not permitted; this is triage, not legal advice.
- HRPlaybooks/guides/toolkitsRestricted
Free HR toolkits
Free HR toolkits
Roots HR ↗Licence: All Rights Reserved (no reuse licence; materials "for your internal use only")evidence ↗Why this verdict?
Every page on rootshr.org.uk carries an "All Rights Reserved. Company Number: 6793479" footer, including the homepage, the target "Free HR toolkits" page, and the /free-toolkits index; none display a Creative Commons badge or any "free to use/share/adapt" statement, and /terms-of-use, /copyright and /license return 404. The site's Terms & Conditions PDF (linked sitewide) is decisive: clause 12.1 states "Roots HR reserves all copyright, intellectual property and any other rights... which includes, but is not limited to, generic and tailored documents... Any such materials shall be licensed to you for your internal use only," and clause 12.3 requires users "not to copy, publish or distribute any such... materials or documents to any third party without Roots HR's prior written consent" (clause 13.8 also forbids using the content to train AI). The toolkits themselves are not openly downloadable — they are gated behind an email request form and sent individually — reinforcing controlled distribution. Caveat: the T&Cs are framed around paid consultancy engagements rather than the free toolkits specifically, but the sitewide all-rights-reserved notice plus the absence of any reuse grant anywhere means extracting and storing this content is not permitted; link-only is the safe course. This is triage, not legal advice.
- HRToolsRestricted
Free payroll, accounting software for charities
Free payroll, accounting software for charities
Benchmark ↗Licence: none found (all-rights-reserved copyright)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
Both the homepage and the source resource page carry only an all-rights-reserved copyright in the footer ("© 1978 – 2026 Benchmark Software Limited") with no Creative Commons badge, OGL, public-domain, or "free to use/share/adapt" statement for the site's content. The one legal document, the "Terms & Conditions" page, is a software EULA (sections: Grant of Licence, Upgrades, Term and Termination, Warranties, Disclaimer, General) that declares all IP "in the Software and in the Manuals are the exclusive property of Benchmark" and forbids copying except a single backup — clearly proprietary. Note two caveats: (1) the "free software for charities" framing refers to the software being free of charge for nonprofits, NOT an open content licence — a distinction worth flagging; (2) the formal terms only expressly cover the Software/Manuals, so the website prose itself is governed by default copyright rather than an explicit reuse clause, but with no permission granted anywhere the conservative read is restricted (link-only), not unknown. /copyright, /legal, and /terms-of-use return 404.
- HRTemplatesRestricted
Grievance policy templates
Grievance policy templates
CharlieHR ↗Licence: none found (all rights reserved — proprietary Terms & Conditions)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
CharlieHR's footer carries a plain all-rights-reserved notice ("© CharlieHR 2026. Charlie OS Limited...") with no Creative Commons badge, and its Terms (https://www.charliehr.com/terms) explicitly reserve all rights: "All rights not expressly granted to the Client are reserved," CharlieHR owns "all right, title and interest... in and to... the Content," users get only a "non-exclusive, limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable" licence "solely for the Client's own internal business purposes," and "the Client shall not... distribute or otherwise commercially exploit or make available to any third party the Service or the Content... modify or make derivative works... or 'frame' or 'mirror' any Content on any other server." Extracting and storing the article/template in a resource library is exactly the redistribution/mirroring these clauses forbid, so this is restricted (link-only). Caveat: the blog article does invite readers to "download, customise and use" / "edit and adapt" that one grievance-policy template for their own team — but this is a narrow, end-user, internal-use permission for the template itself, not a site-wide grant to republish or store CharlieHR's content elsewhere; templates may also contain embedded third-party material, and no /license or /legal page exists (the latter 404s) to broaden the grant.
- HRTemplatesRestricted
HR templates
HR templates
Croner ↗Licence: none found (all rights reserved)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
Across the homepage, the /free-downloads/ page, the privacy policy, and two actual template pages (social-media-policy-template, return-to-work-interview-form), the only IP statement is the proprietary copyright line "© 2026 Croner is a trading name of Croner Limited registered in England & Wales No. 10878116" — no Creative Commons badge, OGL, public-domain, or open-reuse statement anywhere. There is no working terms-of-use/licence page: /terms-of-use/, /terms/, /legal/, /disclaimer/ all 404, /copyright/ returns 410 Gone, and /terms-and-conditions/ silently resolves to the homepage with no terms content. The only usage signal is "Download and use these templates for your business," a narrow permission to use templates within one's own business — not a grant to extract, store, and redistribute content in a third-party internal library; a web search also showed sibling site croner.com reserving all rights and granting only a non-transferable personal licence. Caveat: this is a site-wide assessment from front-end pages and search; individual downloaded files were not opened and could in principle carry their own (likely more restrictive) terms, so this is conservative triage, not legal advice.
- HRPlaybooks/guides/toolkitsRestricted
Tracking law changes: Employment Rights Act 2025
Tracking law changes: Employment Rights Act 2025
CIPD ↗Licence: none found (all rights reserved — © The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
CIPD (cipd.org) is all-rights-reserved with an explicit prohibition on reuse — there is no open or Creative Commons licence. Every page (homepage, the source Employment Rights Act article, and factsheet/knowledge pages) carries "© Copyright The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 2026" with no CC/OGL badge or "free to use/share/adapt" statement. The Terms and Conditions, Section 5 (Intellectual Property), states all IPRs in the published material are owned by or licensed to the CIPD, and clause 5.2 explicitly forbids reuse: save as incidental to authorised access, "you must not reproduce, download, transmit or retransmit, manipulate or store on paper, electronic (including ... any database ...) ... in whole or in part ... the information or material published on the pages of it, nor hypertext or otherwise link to it, without the prior written consent of the CIPD." There is no personal/non-commercial or fair-dealing carve-out, and the restriction even extends to linking. Caveat: the prohibition is site-wide for CIPD-owned editorial content (factsheets, guides, knowledge articles); a separate clause governs user contributions to CIPD Professional Communities (IP stays with the contributor, licensed to CIPD), but that does not grant the library any right to extract CIPD's own content. Verdict: extraction/storage is not permitted — link-only, or seek prior written consent. This is triage, not legal advice.
- HRValidated professional servicesRestricted
Volunteering hub
Connecting platform for volunteers
Reach Volunteering ↗Licence: All rights reserved (no reuse permission); CC BY-SA 4.0 reference applies only to a third-party legal-text template incorporated into Reach's Terms, not to site contentevidence ↗Why this verdict?
Reach Volunteering's Terms of Use, Section 6 ("How you may use material on the Website"), explicitly reserves all rights: 6.1 states Reach owns or licenses all IP in the Website and its published material and "All such rights are reserved"; 6.2 bars using any part of the content for commercial purposes without a licence; 6.3 terminates usage rights and requires destruction of copies made in breach. The homepage footer carries only a charity-registration line with no copyright symbol, CC badge, or reuse grant, and two sampled resource pages (/build-dynamic-trustee-board, /trustee-recruitment-cycle) carry no per-item licence, so the all-rights-reserved site terms govern them. The single creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 link on the Terms page is an acknowledgement that Reach's own Online Safety Act 2023 wording was adapted from a CC BY-SA template by Neil Brown — it is the inbound licence on a legal-text template, not an outbound licence on Reach's content. Caveat: verdict is site-wide triage, not legal advice; embedded third-party material may differ.