Terms of Use
Data license and conditions for usage
General information
The Danish Meteorological Institute (“DMI”), which holds the intellectual property rights to meteorological data provided through "DMI's APIs and Bulk Download Services" (“data”), provides the right to use data on the terms set forth below.
By using data, the user accepts the terms of use of DMI’s meteorological data, irrespective of whether the user himself has obtained the data via DMI’s APIs or Bulk Download Services. If the user uses DMI’s data, the user has further accepted the terms of use set forth below for the use of DMI’s APIs and Bulk Download Services to retrieve data.
The terms are governed by Danish law and Danish jurisdiction, and any dispute between the user and DMI in connection with these terms of use, including disputes concerning the existence or validity of the terms of use, shall be solved in accordance with the terms.
Any disputes between the user and DMI the parties shall initially seek to resolve amicably between them. If a dispute fails to be resolved amicably, it shall be settled before the Danish Institute of Arbitration in Copenhagen in accordance with the rules of arbitration procedure adopted by The Danish Institute of Arbitration and in force at the time when such proceedings are commenced.
The data
Data provided through DMI’s APIs and Bulk Download Services, includes meteorological observationdata consisting of point measurements from DMI’s measuring stations in Denmark and Greenland. The data provided also includes oceanographic observation data from tide gauge stations owned by DMI and the Danish Coastal Authority. Observation data are raw, not quality assured meassurements, which may be faulty due to the way they are collected. The use of observation data shall be with regard to the fact that the measurements may be faulty. You can read more about the data, the collection of data, the sources of error and the quality of the data here
Data in DMI’s databases may change over time, for instance due to the identification of errors resulting in the repopulation of a given database.
License
DMI's Open Data are distributed under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 (external site).
In short, you are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially
DMI, the licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Data users must comply with the following terms:
- Attribution - You must give appropriate credit (external site), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made (external site). You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures (external site) that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation (external site).
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights (external site) may limit how you use the material.
DMI’s API's and Download Services for retrieval of data
Use of DMI’s API’s and Bulk Download Services retrieval of data is open and user registration is no longer required.
When using DMI’s data for development of applications for mobile units, continuous updating of the application with data via DMI’s web service must be avoided. Applications for mobile units may not update with data via DMI’s web services when the application is not active.
DMI’s web services are placed on a platform which is designed to support many users at the same time. At the same time, quick response times are expected. However, you share DMI’s web services with many users, and you may therefore experience variations in the response time and capacity.
DMI’s APIs and Bulk Download Services are generally designed to be available 24/7, and DMI will endeavour to ensure such availability at all times. DMI reserves the right to have service windows for maintenance but will seek to limit this to an absolute minimum.
DMI reserves the right to set up detailed terms in relation to “fair use” (i.e. normal and reasonable use) of DMI’s open data services, including the right to adjust the bandwidth for individual IP addresses if these strain DMI’s services to a disproportionately wide extent.
DMI’s rights and responsibilities
The data are made available "as is", and DMI is not liable for the contents and origin of the data nor is it liable for any errors and omissions in the data, including for any loss or damage caused by use of data or breakdown on the distribution platform.
DMI does not guarantee the continued availability of data and may at all times change the right to use the data and the terms in this respect and the right to use the web services.
The license terms were changed November 30th 2023.
Fair use guidelines
To ensure a stable and reliable service for all users, our APIs are subject to fair use guidelines.
We will monitor traffic patterns and may apply rate limiting, if misuse is detected. To avoid this, please apply the following guidelines, when calling our API’s:
- Use filtering and query parameters to request only the the data you actually need
- Avoid unnecessary polling to check for new data. Instead find the actual API’s update cycle and refresh your data according to this.
- Cache your API requests where possible
- And last but not least, always feel free to contact our Open Data team on friedata_kontakt@dmi.dk , if you have complex requests that you find difficult to solve by yourself.
Privacy policy
DMI is data controller in relation to personal data registered in connection with your use of DMI’s APIs and Bulk Download Services. DMI ensures that your personal data are processed in accordance with legislation.
DMI’s contact details are the following:
DMI
Sankt Kjelds Plads 11
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Telephone: +45 39 15 75 00
Types of personal data
Logging of your traffic, i.e. your requests to DMI’s APIs and Bulk Download Services covers:
- IP-address
- Query parameters used (URL)
- The time of the request
Purpose of data processing
We collect and process the above personal data for the following purposes:
To guide, maintain and optimize
- We use your data to be able to guide you on the use of DMI’s open data services.
- We use your data to ensure that our web services work as intended, for instance by locating and fixing any problems.
Development of new services
- We use data from existing services in order to help us develop new services and improve our non-commercial services.
Legal basis
The legal basis of our processing is Article 6 (1)(e) of the General Data Protection Regulation.
For how long will we store your data?
Logging of requests to DMI’s APIs and Bulk Download Services is stored for up to 60 months and is thereafter deleted.
With whom do we share your data?
DMI has an implemented IT security policy, and we will protect your data against loss or change.
We use a number of external suppliers of e.g. operation of IT systems, including Staten's IT. These suppliers may have access to your personal data, and DMI has concluded processor agreements with these suppliers in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
What are my rights?
You are entitled to get access to the personal data processed about you, to have incorrect personal data corrected and to have data deleted if you no longer wish to use DMI’s open data service.
You may also object to our processing according to the conditions of Article 21 of the Data Protection Regulation.
In certain situations, you are entitled to have the processing of your personal data limited.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the data protection legislation, you may contact us via the contact form on dmi.dk.
Do you have any questions concerning your data?
If you have questions concerning your data, you may contact DMI or the data protection officer of the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, phone no. +45 72 54 57 41.
How do I complain?
You are also entitled to complain about our processing of your personal data to the Danish Data Protection Agency.
Danish Data Protection Agency
Borgergade 28, 5.
DK-1300 Copenhagen
E-mail: dt@datatilsynet.dk
Phone no.: +45 33 19 32 00
