Terms of Use
These terms govern your use of the Deep Almanac website and any data, API or other service made available under the Deep Almanac name (together, the Service). The Service is operated by Total Metrics Pty Ltd (we, us), a company registered in Australia. By using the Service you agree to these terms.
1. What the Service is
Deep Almanac collects publicly available reference datasets, such as property, financial market and education data, into one place so that software, including AI agents, can find and consult them. We are a secondary source. Each record identifies its original source and the date it was collected where we can.
2. Reference only
The Service is provided for general information and reference. It is not financial, investment, legal, valuation, educational or other professional advice, and it is not a substitute for checking the original source. You are responsible for any decision you or your software makes in reliance on the Service.
3. Accuracy and availability
We try to keep the data accurate and current, but we do not guarantee that it is complete, correct, up to date or free of errors, and we do not guarantee that the Service will be available or uninterrupted. Data may be delayed, revised or withdrawn by its original source at any time.
4. Permitted use
Subject to these terms you may access the Service, including by automated means, and use the data for your own purposes. You must not:
- use the Service in a way that breaches any law or infringes anyone's rights;
- place unreasonable load on the Service or attempt to circumvent access limits;
- remove or obscure source attributions attached to the data;
- present the data as an official publication of its original source;
- use the data in a way that breaches the licence terms of its original source, where those terms are indicated;
- use the comment box, or the comment endpoint behind it, to send unlawful, abusive, misleading or automated bulk content, or anyone else's personal or confidential information (except as needed to ask us to correct or remove a record, under section 10).
We may stop accepting comments from a sender, or discard a comment, without notice.
5. Data licences
A dataset, and often a single record, combines data from several sources, each on its own terms. Every dataset's index.json lists them under licences: each source, the fields it covers, its licence (or why there is none) and the attribution it asks for. If you reuse a field, you must meet the terms of the source that covers it.
Our own work. What we create, such as rankings, estimates, derived, normalised and summary fields, counts, flags and the selection and arrangement of the data, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Credit it as “Deep Almanac (deepalmanac.com)”, link to the licence and say if you changed it.
Openly licensed sources. Data from government agencies such as APRA, ASIC, the Reserve Bank, the Australian Energy Regulator, the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman and the Victorian Department of Education is used under the Creative Commons licence each one publishes it under, and you must give the attribution it asks for.
Product data and providers' own pages. Consumer Data Right product data is reproduced as the bank or the regulator published it. Facts read from a provider's own pages and documents, such as a bank's terms, an insurer's policy wording or an agency's sold listings, are reproduced with the address they were read from; the wording we quote remains its publisher's copyright, and we grant no licence to it.
Restricted sources. Some sources allow only limited use: the VCAA's school results, for example, are used for research with acknowledgement, and are not licensed for any other use. Ask the source before reusing those fields.
Nothing in these terms grants you rights in third-party data beyond what its own terms allow.
6. Intellectual property
The Deep Almanac name, logo, site design, documentation and the selection, arrangement and enrichment of the datasets are owned by us or our licensors. Rights in the underlying third-party data remain with their owners.
If you send us a comment, a correction or a suggestion, you keep whatever rights you have in it and you give us permission to use it to run and improve the Service, including to correct or extend a dataset. We do not publish comments on the site; a comment and our replies appear only on its private chat page, whose address is given to the sender alone. If that ever changes we will say so here first, and we will not attribute a comment to you.
7. Liability
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability for any loss or damage, including indirect or consequential loss and loss of profit, data or business, arising from the Service or your use of it.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy conferred by the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be excluded. Where our liability for a breach of such a guarantee can be limited, it is limited, at our option, to resupplying the relevant service or paying the cost of having it resupplied.
8. Changes and termination
We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Service, and may update these terms, at any time. Continued use after a change means you accept it. We may restrict or end your access if you breach these terms.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria and the courts that hear appeals from them.
10. Corrections and removal requests
If you think a record is wrong, contains personal information that should not be published, or reproduces material in breach of your copyright or of a source's licence, tell us through the comment form. Please give the address of the page or file, the record concerned, why you think it should be corrected or removed, and, if you act for someone else, whom you act for. You may include the personal information needed to identify the record.
A person reads every request. We will review it promptly, reply on the comment's private chat page, and correct or remove the record where we agree it is wrong or should not be published. If we decline, we will tell you why. Removing a record from the Service does not remove it from its original source.
11. Contact
Questions about these terms: use the comment form.