What is RSS?

What is RSS?

The letters RSS stand for 'Really Simple Syndication'.

RSS feeds are automatic news feeds designed to be read by computers rather than people.

You can subscribe to one of our RSS feeds and have information summaries delivered to your computer or browser without having to visit the site daily.

Getting started

The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks feeds you have requested and lets you read any new articles that have been added.

There are various types of news reader. You should choose one that will work with your computer’s operating system.

Some news readers are accessed using a browser, and let you view your RSS subscriptions from any computer.

Other news readers are downloadable applications and let you store content on your main computer.

Subscribing to our feeds

When you have chosen a news reader, you can decide what content you want to keep up to date with.

If you are interested in reading the latest news or blog stories from London 2012, you subscribe to the feed by clicking on the RSS button at the bottom of the News, Blog or Jobs sections.

You can subscribe to the feed in various ways. You can drag and drop the orange RSS button into your news reader.

Alternatively, you can paste one of the London 2012 RSS URLs into a new feed in your news reader.

The URL for the London 2012 news RSS feed is: http://www.london2012.com/news/archive/index.rss

The URL for the London 2012 blog RSS feed is:
http://www.london2012.com/blog/posts.rss

The URL for the London 2012 jobs RSS feed is:
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/work-for-2012/rss

The reader checks your subscribed feeds regularly for new content, and downloads any new content it finds.

Terms and conditions

Your use of London 2012 RSS feeds is subject to our Terms of Use. In particular, we do not accept any liability for the London 2012 RSS feeds (or your use of them), and we reserve the right to prevent the reproduction, distribution or any other use of London 2012 content.

Using London 2012 feeds on your website

If you are an individual and maintain your own non-commercial website or weblog, you are permitted to display London 2012 content derived the London 2012 RSS feeds (“our Content”) on your site/blog by incorporating the London 2012 RSS feeds on your site/blog.

It is a condition of such use that you agree to comply with our Terms of Use and with the RSS Rules of Use set out below (which are incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use). For the avoidance of doubt, your site/blog is “commercial” for these purposes if (among any other commercial activities) it carries advertising or other marketing communications.

We offer the London 2012 RSS feeds as a free service (“our RSS Service”) on a non-exclusive basis, subject to the following terms and conditions:

1. Your use of our RSS Service and of our Content will be for private, non-commercial purposes only. You may not transfer or sub-license your permission to use our RSS Service or our Content. You may not (whether directly or indirectly) charge your users for accessing our RSS Service or our Content or otherwise attempt to re-sell or in any other way commercialise our RSS Service or our Content.

2. You will ensure that the functionality of your site/blog allows immediate display of, or a prominent link to, our Content in full. You may not (except with our express prior written permission) edit, add to, summarise or in any modify our Content.

3. Your use of our Content or our RSS Service must be accompanied by a text-only attribution (i.e. credit) to London 2012 as the source. The attribution text should read (in the case of our Content) "From London 2012" or (in the case of our RSS Service) state “From http://www.london2012.com/news/archive/index.rss” or “From http://www.london2012.com/blog/posts.rss" or "From  http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/work-for-2012/rss" (as applicable). You are not permitted to use the London 2012 logo or any other Olympic or London 2012 mark(s) as part of such attribution. View our guidelines on Use of the Games' Marks.

4. You may not use our RSS Service or our Content as a method of creating an unauthorised association between an organisation, business, goods or services and London 2012, and you agree that your use of our RSS Service or our Content shall not portray us or any other official London 2012 organisations (or our or their activities, products or services) in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner.

5. You may not use our RSS Service and/or our Content on your site/blog if (whether in whole or in part) it is harmful or offensive in any way (e.g. incites hatred of any kind or promotes, encourages or facilitates violence, terrorism or other illegal activities or anti-social behaviour), discriminates against any section of society, is defamatory or violates the privacy of any person, or contains any content that contravenes applicable laws or regulations.

6. By accessing and/or using our RSS Service or our Content, you indicate your agreement that you will not use our RSS Service or our Content in breach of the above terms and conditions. We reserve the right to discontinue our RSS Service at any time without liability, as well as the right to request the immediate cessation of any specific use of our RSS Service or our Content. We also reserve the right to restrict, suspend or terminate the permission granted above or your access to our RSS Service at any time without liability. If notified of such termination, you shall promptly remove from your site/blog our feeds, our Content and all links to the same and shall destroy all copies of our Content.