Terms and Conditions

Introduction

THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS WERE LAST UPDATED ON 29th November 2024

These terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”) govern your access to and use of 

• guinnessworldrecords.com, gwrstore.com, related sub-domains, counterpart sites in other languages and any other GWR website that links to this Privacy Policy; and
• the GWR Verify app and other GWR digital applications

which together are referred to in these Terms of Use as the “GWR Services”

The Guinness World Records privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) and cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) also apply to your use of the GWR Services. 

By accessing and using the GWR Services you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to use and/ or contribute to the GWR Services. We may modify these Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy at any time and such modification will be effective upon posting to this website. 

If you do not wish to grant consent to the use of cookies by us or third parties in relation to the GWR Services, please see our Cookie Policy for details on how to remove or disable them. 

If you sign up for a user account on the GWR Services or apply to attempt an official Guinness World Records record attempt, additional policies may also apply. These will be explained to you prior to your registration for those services.

Your Use of the GWR Services

The GWR Services are provided to you by Guinness World Records Limited (“GWR” or “us” or “we” or “our”), in collaboration with our partners, service providers, advertisers, sponsors, or other affiliates (“Service Provider”). 

The GWR Services contain material, such as software, text, graphics, images, video, audio and other material (collectively referred to as the “Content”). The Content may be owned by us or may be provided through an arrangement we have with others, including other users of the GWR Services, and any Service Provider. 

The Content is protected by copyright under United Kingdom, United States and international laws. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You have no rights in or to the Content, and you may not use the Content except as permitted under these Terms of Use. No other use is permitted without prior written consent from us or the owner of the Content. 

You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content on any copy you make of the Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. You are expressly prohibited from using or posting any Content on any other website, social media account, or publication for any purpose is expressly prohibited. If you violate any part of these Terms of Use, your permission to access or use the Content and GWR Services automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the Content. 

Various company, product, and service names displayed on the GWR Services may be trademarks or service marks owned by others (the “Third Party Trademarks”). Nothing on the GWR Services should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Third Party Trademark displayed on the GWR Services. The Third Party Trademarks may not be used to disparage any applicable third-party, any of their products or services, or in any manner in which, in our reasonable judgment, may damage any goodwill in the Third Party Trademarks. 

The GWR Services may contain links to third party websites (“External Sites”). These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us of the content on such External Sites. The content of such External Sites is developed and provided by others. You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or any content located on such External Sites. In addition, the GWR Services contains content posted, stored, or displayed at the direction of users of the GWR Services, for which we cannot accept any responsibility or liability. 

The GWR Services are for personal use only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavours except those that are specifically approved by us. The following activities are expressly prohibited: (i) collecting usernames and/ or email addresses of other users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or other communications, (ii) any use of the GWR Services, which in our sole judgment, degrades the reliability, speed, or operation of the GWR Services or any underlying hardware or software thereof, and (iii) any use of the GWR Services which is unlawful or in violation of these Terms of Use. 

You agree to use the GWR Services for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of the GWR Services. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within the GWR Services. 

By using the GWR Services, you represent and warrant that you are 13 years of age or older, unless we have your parent’s consent to such use. Your account may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are less than 13 years of age. 

Membership of the GWR Services is subject, in our sole discretion, to termination at any time.

GWR’s Intellectual Property

All copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on the GWR Services and all content (including all applications) located on the GWR Services shall remain vested in GWR or its licensors (which includes other users).

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use the GWR Services’ content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any of the GWR Services’ content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of the GWR Services’ content requires the prior written permission of GWR. 

The names, images and logos identifying GWR or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of GWR and/ or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of GWR or any other third party.

Your User Content

To participate in and contribute to any community features (for example messaging features) in the GWR Services (“Community Features”), you must register with the applicable GWR Services. Any personal information supplied to GWR via the GWR Services as part of this registration process or any other interaction with the GWR Services will be collected, stored and used in accordance with the Guinness World Records Privacy Policy. 

You agree to use any Community Features in accordance with these Terms of Use and any other specific rules set out in the relevant GWR Service.

The GWR Services also permit the submission of user-generated Content at the direction of users of the GWR Services and the hosting, sharing, and publishing of such content.  Any text, photographs, video, artwork, or other material of any kind that you submit to the GWR Services, including any Community Feature posts, are referred to herein as “User Content”.  We do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any submissions, regardless of whether they are published on the GWR Services or not. 

You must not submit any User Content that:

•  copyright, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third-party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of those rights or have permission from the owner to post the material and to grant us all of the rights granted to us in these Terms of Use; 
• are lies or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party;
• is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libellous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; 
• are advertisements or solicitations of business; or
• impersonate another person. 

You must not engage in any serious or repeated disruptive behaviour on the GWR Services.

You are solely responsible for User Content you submit and the consequences of our posting or publishing such User Content. You affirm, represent, and warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to publish, copy, distribute and otherwise use all User Content to in the manner contemplated by the GWR Services and these Terms of Use; and (ii) you have the written consent or permission of every identifiable person depicted or mentioned in the User Content (including, where relevant consent of the parent or guardian of anyone under 18 years of age) to allow GWR to use their name, image or likeness  in the manner contemplated by the GWR Services and these Terms of Use. We may maintain copies of any User Content for purposes of backup, security, or maintenance, or as required by law. 

By submitting  User Content to the GWR Services, you hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, modify, display, and perform all or any portion of the User Content in or in connection with the GWR Services, the Guinness World Records book, any video productions produced by GWR or its licensees and partners, any GWR social media accounts  and otherwise in connection with GWR’s business in any media whatsoever.  We may maintain copies of any User Content for purposes of backup, security, or maintenance, or as required by law. 

You also hereby grant each user of the GWR Services a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the GWR Services, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the GWR Services and under these Terms of Use. 

In addition to the foregoing licenses, you hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Content in connection with other websites that make use of services provided by any Service Provider. 

If you do not want to grant us the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to the GWR Services.We do not endorse any User Content or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with any User Content. 

If your User Content or behaviour on the GWR Services does not comply with these Terms of Use, GWR reserves the right to:

• check any User Content posted by you before allowing its publication on the GWR Services;
• delete any User Contentl
• temporarily or permanently suspend of your access to any part of the GWR Services 
• use whatever information is available to GWR about you to stop any further such breaches, which may include informing relevant third-parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s); or
• take action against any user, at any time, for any reason without notice

Your Safety

Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks, or break any laws when creating content you may subsequently share with GWR. 

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home address, email address, or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified) in any User Content.

Copyright Infringement

If you are a copyright owner and believe that any User Content or other Content infringes your copyright, you may submit a notification to us as detailed below with the following information in writing: 

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; 
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyright works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; 
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and  sufficient information to enable us to locate the material; 
4. Reasonably sufficient information to enable us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail; 
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and 
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. 

Please send notifications of claimed infringement and other notices relating to User Content or violation of these Terms of Use (e.g. violations of criminal laws) to Guinness World Records Limited, Ground Floor, The Rookery, 2 Dyott Street, London, WC1A 1DE, United Kingdom  or by email to: dpo@guinnessworldrecords.com

Your Guinness World Records Account

If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts. 

All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. Accounts registered with someone else’s email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address. 

GWR reserves the right to close accounts if any user is seen to be using proxy IPs (Internet Protocol addresses) in order to attempt to hide the use of multiple GWR accounts, or disrupts any of our services in any way. 

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from your breach of these Terms of Use or your uploading of, access to, or use or misuse of the Content or the GWR Services. 

We shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter which is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defence of such matter.

Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability

WE, OUR AFFILIATES, AND OUR AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS, MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE CONTENT (INCLUDING THE USER CONTENT), INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ITS ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, OR RELIABILITY. WE SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO LIABILITY FOR TRUTH, ACCURACY, OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONVEYED TO THE USER OR FOR ERRORS, MISTAKES OR OMISSIONS THEREIN OR FOR ANY DELAYS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF THE DATA OR INFORMATION STREAM FROM WHATEVER CAUSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU USE THE GWR SERVICES AND THE CONTENT AT YOUR OWN RISK. 

THE USER CONTENT IS CREATED BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. ANY VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE THEIRS AND UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED ARE NOT THOSE OF GWR. GWR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT POSTED BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON THE GWR SERVICES OF FOR THE AVAILABILITY OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY GWR SERVICESS THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE GWR SERVICES. ANY LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBGWR SERVICESS DO NOT AMOUNT TO AN ENDORSEMENT OF THAT GWR SERVICES AND ANY USE OF THAT GWR SERVICES BY YOU IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. 

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE GWR SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR FREE OR THAT THIS GWR SERVICES, ITS SERVER, OR THE CONTENT IS FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. IF YOUR USE OF THE GWR SERVICES OR THE CONTENT RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, WE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.

THE GWR SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE GWR SERVICES AND THE CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF A WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 

Some U.S. states do not allow exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. 

Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be deemed to exclude liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence.

General

These Terms of Use, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by us without restriction. 

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes. 

We may translate these Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy into multiple languages, and in the event there is any conflict between the English version and any other language version, the English version shall prevail. 

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be replaced by similar terms to the extent enforceable under the laws of the subject state or country. However, in the event no such similar terms are available then the applicable terms shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable. 

The failure or delay of GWR to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive GWR’s right to enforce that right. 

Except as expressly agreed by the us and you, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter, and supersede all previous or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. The section headings are provided merely for convenience and shall not be given any legal import. These Terms of Use will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns, licensees, and sub-licensees.