Terms and conditions

Access to and use of the Met Office web site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions, which take effect immediately on your first use of the site. The Met Office reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for regularly reviewing information posted online to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued use of this site after such notice shall be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such changes.

The Met Office has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that all information and data provided through the web site are accurate at the time of publishing. Information and data on the Met Office web site are subject to constant updates and changes. The Met Office cannot guarantee that any data or information, as seen by the user at a specific date and time, will be archived or will be retrievable after the official time period has lapsed.

In no event will the Met Office be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of this data.

These Terms of Use govern your use of the Met Office weather gadgets. RSS feeds and associated datafeeds. The use of the Met Office weather gadgets and RSS feeds is subject to our standard terms and conditions. These Terms of Use may be changed by the Met Office at any time without notice.

Met Office weather gadgets and RSS feeds are free services offered by Met Office for personal and non-commercial use only. Any other uses, including without limitation the incorporation of advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Content, are strictly prohibited. You must use the Met Office weather gadgets and RSS feeds as provided by the Met Office, and you may not edit or modify the text, content or links supplied by the Met Office.

The Met Office weather gadgets and RSS feeds may be used only with those platforms from which a functional link is made available that, when accessed, takes the viewer directly to the display of the web page on the Met Office website. You may not display the Met Office weather gadgets or RSS feeds in a manner that does not permit successful linking to, redirection to or delivery of the applicable Met Office site web page. You may not insert any intermediate page, splash page or other content between the link and the applicable Met Office site web page.

The Met Office retains all ownership and other rights in the Met Office weather gadgets and RSS feeds, and any and all Met Office logos and trademarks used in connection with them. You must provide attribution to the Met Office website in connection with your use of the Met Office weather gadgets or RSS feeds. If you provide this attribution using a graphic, you must use the appropriate Met Office website's logo.

The Met Office reserves the right to discontinue providing any or all of the datafeeds at any time and to require you to cease displaying, distributing or otherwise using any of them for any reason including, without limitation, your violation of any provision of these Terms of Use. The Met Office assumes no liability for any of your activities in connection with the Met Office weather gadgets or RSS feeds.

The logos featured on this site are registered trademarks. Authorisation to reproduce our logo(s) should be obtained from the Met Office IPR Officer. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. Requests for permission to use our logo should be directed to the Met Office IPR Officer, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB. E-mail ipr@metoffice.gov.uk. Tell us how and why you wish to use our logo(s). Please include your name and contact details.

Crown copyright
The material featured on this site is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. The material may be downloaded to file or printer for the purposes of private study and scientific research. Any other proposed use of the material is subject to a copyright licence available from the Met Office. Licences and further information can be obtained from the Met Office IPR Officer, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB. E-mail ipr@metoffice.gov.uk.

Permission to reproduce Crown-protected material does not extend to material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

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Links to external web sites
The Met Office web site contains links to internet sites maintained by others ('third-party sites'). These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the Met Office of the content on those third-party sites. The Met Office is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party sites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

External links to our site
You are allowed to have hypertext links directly to pages hosted on the Met Office web site as long as the link, when activated by a user, displays that page full-screen in a fully operable and navigable browser window and not within a 'frame' on the linked web site. The appearance, position, and other aspects of the link must not create the false impression that an entity or its activities or products are associated with or sponsored by the Met Office. Also it must not damage or dilute the goodwill associated with the name and trademarks of the Met Office. You may not link directly to or embed any Met Office image files in your web pages.

If you wish to link to pages on the Met Office web site, you are responsible for maintaining those links. The Met Office reserves the right to remove or move pages on its web site at any time without notice. To minimise the possibility of broken links on your own web site, the Met Office recommends links to the Met Office home page and the following channel home pages:

The Met Office takes the privacy of its customers very seriously. Any personal information that you provide through this site will be dealt with in accordance with this policy. We also comply fully with the Data Protection Act 1998.

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For services supplied under contract by the Met Office, standard terms and conditions apply.

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