Terms and Conditions

The Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild (“Guild”) was established by the Ulster Historical Foundation (“UHF”) in 1978. Membership is open to all applicants. Membership subscriptions are due on the yearly anniversary of your acceptance into the Guild.

The Ulster Historical Foundation may change benefits to Guild members without notice. Membership of the Guild should not imply any permanent benefit or warranty. The primary function of the Guild is to provide a forum for the self-defined Irish and Scots-Irish genealogical community. Guild membership is not required to access the primary birth, marriage and death databases, for which transcriptions can be purchased on a pay-per-view basis.

Payment of Guild membership will not be refunded. Membership subscriptions are treated as donations to UHF, which is registered with The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland NIC100280.

The websites are owned and operated by the Ulster Historical Foundation (UHF). “You” or “your” means an adult user of the Service for itself and you as parent or guardian for any minor which you allow to access the Service, for whom you will held strictly responsible. Your use of the Service indicates that you are bound by this agreement with us. If you do not agree with any of these terms and conditions, do not use the site. UHF may alter this agreement at any time. Check each time you use the site for changes to the agreement. Your continued use of the site after any change indicates your acceptance of that change. If you do not accept the change, do not use the site.

All material on the websites (content) is owned, copyrighted or licensed by UHF. AncestryIreland.com, BooksIreland.org.uk, HistoryFromHeadstones.com and HistoryOfTheIrishParliament.com are protected by copyright as a collective work, compilation, and/or original work, pursuant to United Kingdom copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws.

You are licensed to review, download, and print the content only for your personal or professional genealogical and family history research. You may not publish material from this site in whole or in party in any electronic, print or other medium, except as unique elements that are part of a unique family history or genealogy. You may not use this site or content therein (including names and contact information for those who submit information) for any purpose other than your personal or professional client family history research, including, but not limited to, contacting individuals for purposes other than genealogical research, selling or promoting products or services, soliciting clients or any other commercial purpose.

The bulk purchase facility for buying credits for use in viewing birth, marriage and death records is for personal use only. Excessive usage will be monitored and anyone found to be exploiting this facility for commercial purposes may have their account terminated.

Violation of this license may result in immediate termination of your account/membership and may result in legal action for injunction, damages, or both.

The websites contain links to other websites that UHF believes will be of assistance to you in your genealogical research. These sites are not maintained or controlled by us, and we are not responsible for their content. Although we have made a good faith effort to link only to tasteful, appropriate sites, some may contain inappropriate or objectionable material. If you find such material while using the websites, please notify us immediately.

The information, products and services included on this Web Service may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein. UHF provides all content “as is”, and without any warranty of any kind.

The Ulster Historical Foundation makes no representations concerning the suitability, reliability or accuracy of the content or the service provided on the websites for any purpose. We disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, in connection with the content and the services provided, including conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. If no case will we be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, special or other damages including, without limitation, lost or delay of use, lost profits, loss of data or any other damage in contract, tort, equity or any other legal theory, even if advised of the possibility thereof.

If you are dissatisfied with this website or any of the websites or any terms of their use, your sole remedy is to discontinue using it.

All material on this site and any linked site is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, to the fullest extent permissible by law. We do not warrant that the functions on this site will be uninterrupted or problem free, that errors will be corrected or that this site or sites or server(s) that make it available are free of viruses or other damaging materials.

AncestyIreland.com, BooksIreland.org.uk, HistoryFromHeadstones.com, or HistoryOfTheIrishParliament.com, Ulster Historical Foundation, UHF and the UHF logo are trademarks of the Ulster Historical Foundation. They may not be used without the express permission of the Board of Trustees of the Ulster Historical Foundation.

All prices quoted are in Great Britain Pounds (GBP) Sterling (£). Any prices quoted in other currencies are approximate estimations, and are not to be accepted as exact prices. We accept payments in GBP, US Dollars and Euro.

Any credit cannot be refunded or transferred to another customer’s or Guild member’s account.

Guild membership is not required to access the primary birth, marriage and death databases, nor does it allow free access to birth, marriage and death records. Transcriptions can be purchased on a pay-per-view basis at full price for non-guild members or at a discounted price for guild members.

Guild membership is not required to access inscriptions from the HistoryFromHeadstones.com website; Guild members receive a discounted price per inscription.

You can pay by the following credit/debit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Delta. All offers and products are subject to availability. The Ulster Historical Foundation (UHF) reserves the right to change prices without prior notification before, but not after, accepting your order. We undertake to honour any price quoted at the time of order (subject to availability).

Online payments are processed by PayPal and Stripe for which UHF will not be deemed liable for any malfunctions or errors. Payments occur by encryption on a secure server. UHF has taken every reasonable precaution to ensure the integrity and security of payment transactions. The security measures within the payment system are designed to protect UHF and all of its customers from fraud.

The Ulster Historical Foundation will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions of the products and services it sells. While UHF will seek to redress matters of grievance, refunds will be granted at the sole discretion of UHF management.

As a self supporting charity we are not in the position to refund delivery costs in the event of service interruptions or failures caused by events beyond our control. We will however treat all cases as sympathetically as possible.

If a package is refused by the recipient a refund will not be offered.

Due to postal services in areas outside of the UK, in some instances your parcel could take up to 5 weeks to arrive.

Because of this we cannot issue a refund or replacement copy until at least 5 weeks after the order was placed.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you.

We will only use personal information you supply to us for the reason that you provided it for.

We will not pass your information to any other parties unless this is made clear to you at the time you supplied it.

All employees and contractors who have access to your personal data or are associated with the handling of that data are obliged to respect your confidentiality.

The above Terms & Conditions do not affect your statutory rights.