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.

Here you can find out what personal information we collect, how we use this information, and who has access to it. Also covered here are the following topics: security, cookies, and how to contact us for further information.

We will keep a record of the data provided by customers on registration, together with the details necessary to administer your account.

For customers, we may also keep a record of those parts of the service or parts of site you use most often, to enable us to monitor and improve our service and to know which parts of the service are of most interest to you.

We may also keep track of pages visited by non-customers, in order to monitor which parts of the site are most popular.

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Registration details and customer information will be used to administer your account, to keep a record of which services you have subscribed to and to deliver the services you have requested.

Except where you have opted out of such use, we may also use your information to send you information about the Met Office and other Met Office offers or services which we believe may be of interest to you. If at any time you wish to opt out of such use then you may contact our Data Protection Officer at the address below.

We do not sell or rent out personal information to any other organisations.

Non-customers' site viewing information will be used to monitor and improve the layout of the site and the service we offer via these pages.

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The Met Office is responsible for the processing of your data and is the 'data controller' for all information. Access to your data is limited solely to the Met Office and authorised employees.

Our technology services provider, Wireless Information Network Ltd, or other contracted service providers, may also have access or store data for us, but solely for use on behalf of the Met Office in accordance with our instructions and under our control. Secure credit card and payment authorisation is handled by our payment provider.

You may also access your registration details through the relevant customer administration page, using your customer password. Access is strictly controlled and password-protected.

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The Met Office takes great care to ensure the security of this site and your personal information. Where credit card information is collected, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or equivalent secure technology.

SSL is the industry standard method of encrypting personal information and credit card details so that they can be securely transferred over the internet. This means that you can purchase on-line with complete peace of mind. Further information is available on our security policy.

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Our site also uses ad servers (such as DoubleClick) to serve the advertisements that you see on our web pages. Our advertising agent, AdLINK, uses cookies to help target advertisements to you. You can read more about AdLINK's use of cookies, and the information-gathering practices and opt-out procedures on AdLINK's web site.

Managing cookies
For pages which require registration, cookies need to be enabled. You can set your browser to either accept cookies or to prompt to accept cookies so that you can access these pages. The browser you are using should have specific instructions on how to control the acceptance of cookies and also how to delete unwanted cookies from your hard drive.

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The Met Office is an Executive Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence. Met Office is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 (in the name of the Ministry of Defence), Registration No. G0626166.

Access to personal data which we may hold about you can be requested in writing to the Data Protection Officer at the address below. We may require proof of identity in relation to any such request.

Your information will not be transferred abroad, but you may be able to access your own registration details over the Internet from locations abroad. This policy covers just processing by the Met Office and does not cover any processing which may be carried out by your cellular network provider.

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please write to:

This policy may be updated or amended from time to time.