Copyright

Find out about legal requirements when using content from the Bureau of Meteorology website

In this copyright notice, these terms refer to the Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Bureau of Meteorology:

  • the Bureau
  • we
  • our
  • us.

Content on this site is owned by us and others

We make a range of material available on this website under:

  • Australian Government policy and legislation, including the Copyright Act 1968, the Meteorology Act 1955 and the Water Act 2007
  • collaborative, research and other arrangements with third parties.

We own most of the content but some is owned by third parties. You must ask them directly for permission to use their content, unless it states they allow us to let you use it.

Using content from this website

Authorised use

The use of content on our site is subject to terms of use. We give permission for use of some content through licences, such as a:

When content has different or additional terms of use, we include these with that content. It's your responsibility to check the terms of use for the content you want to use.

If there are no specific terms of use, you can download, copy and use that content for personal use, or use within your organisation. You must not supply it to any other person or use it for any commercial purpose.

If you would like to use our content in a different way, contact us.

Unauthorised use

We do not allow you to access and/or use our content in a way that:

  • is unlawful or misleading
  • disrupts or otherwise interferes with our site, products and/or services. This means that we do not allow you to use automated or manual techniques to hack, scrape or otherwise extract material from our site.

In this notice, we have described how you can use our content. Unauthorised use may breach the law.

If we suspect unauthorised use, we may:

  • immediately end your access to and use of our content
  • stop you from accessing our site, including by blocking an IP address.

We can do this without telling you, and in addition to any of our other legal rights.

Commonwealth of Australia Coat of Arms, name and marks

For information and guidelines on the use of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, visit the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet website.

You must not use our name, abbreviation, marks, symbols, logo, social media handles and hashtags unless we expressly allow you to.

 

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