Site Information
ModelR is an independent website which aims to provide a resource of information relating to model railways in the UK. ModelR isn't intended to be in competition with other websites; rather, it is intended to complement them.
Design and programming is by Good Stuff.
Contact Details
For general enquiries: info@modelr.co.uk
To submit event or organisation details (if you are unable to use the online form): submit@modelr.co.uk
Please send press releases to: media@modelr.co.uk
Terms and Conditions
By submitting data to ModelR you are granting ModelR an irrevocable, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce and distribute the information submitted. You warrant that you are authorised to submit the data to ModelR, and that the information submitted is, to the best of your knowledge, accurate.
Privacy Policy
Published Listings
Material displayed in the club, shop and event listings is, to the best of our knowledge, published with the intent of permitting public use. If any details are incorrect or you would like to remove them from public display, please either submit an entry update using the link on the entry detail page, or email us at info@modelr.co.uk to request removal.
Entry Submitter Contact Details
Submitter names and contact addresses will not be made public or passed to any third party. We may, if necesary, use your email address to contact you ourselves for the following purposes:
- For new and updated entries, we may email you to inform you that your submission has been made live on the site.
- If any part of your submission is unclear, incomplete or appears to be inaccurate, we may contact you to ask for further information.
- For club and shop entries only, we may contact you if your entry has not been updated for more than a year in order to ensure that our listings are kept up to date.
User statistics and "Cookies"
This site uses automated software to obtain usage statistics. This includes the use of "cookies" on your web browser to track your use of this site. No personal information is obtained by this method.
Copyright
Where possible, the textual and database content of this website is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
Exclusions to the above licence
Product images and press releases are the copyright of the respective manufacturers/distributors and are used under fair dealing provisions of UK copyright law.
Auction listings, including images, are the copyright of eBay and are used under licence.
The content of the bookshop page is copyright Amazon.co.uk and used under licence.
FAQ
- Where does your information come from?
The club, shop, event and visitor attraction listings are compiled from a variety of sources, including:
- Data submitted to ModelR through the add information page.
- Promotional material published by the organisation or event organiser, including club websites, show posters/flyers and press releases.
- Media reports in modelling and general publications.
- Information distributed via online discussion forums, including Usenet posts and web forum threads.
The product pages are based on the various supplier catalogues. Auction listings (eBay) and bookshop data (Amazon) come from their affiliate schemes. News comes from press releases and Google News. Website listings are primarily from DMOZ but enhanced with data aded manually. Articles, gallery photos and the ModelR blog are original to the site's contributors unless otherwise stated.
- Where do the website screenshots come from?
Where possible, they're retrieved automatically from the Open Thumbshots Project. If Open Thumbshots doesn't have them, then they're generated manually using WebShot and uploaded to the server.
- Why isn't [whatever] club/shop/exhibition listed?
Because no-one has told us about it, and it hasn't been published anywhere else! We can only include information that we know about, and we don't know everything (yet!).
- Can I add or update a listing for a club/shop/exhibition that I know about, even if I'm not directly associated with it?
Yes, although we prefer to get information from the organisation concerned as far as possible. If you're not associated with the organisation, then you must include the organisation's or event's website address in your submission, so that we can verify the details against that before publishing them. For organisations that do not have a website, we can only accept submissions directly from someone with authority to speak on behalf of the organisation.
- Can I use your listings on my website?
Yes, provided you do so under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence. You'll need to read the page at the other end of that link to get the full details of what that implies, but the summary of it is that you can re-use the material presented here provided that you don't use it for commercial purposes (ie, you don't try to sell it or charge for access to it), and you re-publish it under the same licence as this one (ie, you have to allow people to re-use it from your website as well).
The only explicit exceptions to this are the auction listings and bookshop pages. These are published on this site under the terms of the affiliate schemes which provide the data, and it would be a breach of the scheme conditions to allow other sites to use them. In any case, if you want something like that on your site then you'd want your own affiliate scheme so that you get the money from it instead of us! Also, the product data and press releases are not original to this site and hence are not covered by this site's copyright. You are welcome to take product and news data from ModelR if you want to, but you should credit it to the original source rather than us if you do.
- Do you have an RSS feed of the data?
Not yet. That's planned as a future enhancement, time permitting. A regularly updated csv file (for those who like to do their own programming) and Javascript-based listings (for those who don't!) are also in the pipeline, but probably not in the immediate future.
- How does ModelR make money?
From Google Adsense adverts on the site, and from affiliate earnings on product sales from ebay, Amazon and OnTracks. Here are some links if you want to set up similar schemes:
