BangerSkies Terms of Service

Last updated: 28 September 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Paul Ellison, trading as BangerSkies, in Australia (we, us), and apply to your use of the BangerSkies app (the App) and related services. By using the App you agree to these terms and to our Community Guidelines. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information.

If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

1. Your rights under Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy, or any guarantee, warranty or other term or condition, implied or imposed by the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer outside Australia, you also keep any protections that your local law gives you and that cannot be excluded by contract. Everything else in these terms applies only to the extent the law allows.

2. Who can use BangerSkies

• Anyone can use forecasts without an account.
• You must be at least 16 to create an account, post, chat or send reports.
• You must not use the App if you are barred from doing so by law, or if we have suspended your account.

3. What the forecasts are, and are not

BangerSkies estimates how colourful and dramatic a sunrise or sunset is likely to look, using weather model data from third parties and our own scoring model.

• The score is an estimate of sky quality, not a probability. A score of 80 does not mean an 80% chance of anything. It is our model's rating of how promising the conditions look, and it can be wrong.
• Weather forecasts are uncertain and change. Conditions on the day may be very different from what the App shows.
• The App is not a safety or weather-warning service. Do not rely on it to decide whether it is safe to travel, hike, boat, fly, drive or be outdoors. Always check official weather warnings (in Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology) and use your own judgement.
• Viewing spots are suggested automatically from public map data (OpenStreetMap) and terrain models. They may be inaccurate, out of date, on private property, closed, or unsafe, especially near cliffs, water, tides and roads, and in the dark before sunrise or after sunset. Check that a place is legal and safe to access before you go, and follow local rules and signs.

4. Your account

• Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us at support@bangerskies.com if you think someone else has accessed your account. You are responsible for activity on your account that you authorised or that results from you not keeping it secure.
• Give accurate sign-up information and do not impersonate anyone.
• One account per person. Do not create accounts to get around a suspension or a block.
• You can delete your account at any time in the App (Settings → Delete account). The Privacy Policy explains what is deleted.

5. Community content

Chat messages, sky reports, captions and photos you post (your content) are visible to other users of the App.

• You own your content. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display, format (for example, resize or compress) and distribute your content within the App, for as long as it is posted, so that we can run the community. We will ask you before using your content anywhere outside the App, such as on our website or social media.
• When you delete content or your account, the licence ends, except for copies in backups that expire in the ordinary course, and content other users have already seen.
• You must have the right to post your content. Only post photos you took or have permission to share, and do not post identifiable images of other people without their consent.
• We do not endorse user content and are not responsible for it, but we do moderate it as described below.

6. Community Guidelines (zero tolerance)

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. When you post, you must not share content that:

• is hateful, harassing, bullying, threatening or discriminatory, or targets anyone based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected characteristic;
• is sexually explicit, pornographic, or sexualises anyone, and in particular anything that exploits or endangers children;
• depicts or encourages violence, self-harm, suicide, or dangerous activities;
• is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
• shares someone's personal information without consent (including addresses, phone numbers or precise locations of other people);
• is spam, advertising, scams, links to malware, or repetitive or off-topic posts;
• deliberately spreads false information, including fake weather warnings;
• impersonates another person or organisation, including BangerSkies.

How we enforce these rules:

• Posts are automatically checked for prohibited words and patterns, and may be blocked, masked or held for review.
• You can report any message, sky report or user, and block any user, from within the App. Blocking hides their content from you and yours from them.
• Content reported by several people is hidden automatically until we review it.
• We review reports and aim to act within 24 hours. We may remove content and suspend or permanently ban accounts that break these rules, without notice. We may report illegal content to the authorities.
• You must not try to get around moderation, filters, blocks or suspensions.

To raise an urgent concern, report the content in the App or email support@bangerskies.com.

7. Using the App fairly

You must not:

• copy, scrape, harvest or bulk-download forecasts, scores, viewing spots or user content, or access our services other than through the App;
• interfere with, overload or disrupt the App, our servers or our providers, or bypass rate limits or security measures;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the App, except to the extent the law permits despite this restriction;
• use the App to build a competing product, or resell or commercially exploit it without our written permission.

8. Our content and data sources

The App, its design, scoring model and branding belong to us or our licensors. We give you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the App on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store's Usage Rules.

The App uses data from third parties, including weather data from Open-Meteo (licensed under CC BY 4.0) and Tomorrow.io, map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (available under the Open Database Licence), and Apple Maps. Their data is provided as is and is subject to their own terms.

9. Changes and availability

The App is currently free. We may add, change or remove features, and the App may sometimes be unavailable, for example during maintenance or if a data provider is down. If we introduce paid features, we will tell you the price and terms before you buy anything.

10. Liability

Subject to section 1:

• We provide the App with reasonable care and skill, but we do not promise that forecasts, scores or viewing spots will be accurate, complete or available at any particular time.
• We are not liable for loss or damage caused by relying on a forecast or viewing spot, by other users' content or conduct, or by events beyond our reasonable control.
• We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, data or opportunity (such as a missed photograph).

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

11. Suspension and ending these terms

You can stop using the App at any time and delete your account in the App. We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if the law requires it, or to protect other users. Sections 1, 5 (for content already posted), 10 and 13 continue to apply after these terms end.

12. Apple App Store

If you downloaded the App from Apple's App Store:

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App.
• If the App fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any). To the extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the App.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App, including product liability claims, claims that the App fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer protection or privacy claims.
• If anyone claims the App or your use of it infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. If you are a consumer living elsewhere, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts and rely on your local consumer laws.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example to reflect new features or legal requirements. We will update the date at the top, and if a change materially affects you we will tell you in the App before it takes effect. If you keep using the App after that, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, you can stop using the App and delete your account.

15. Contact

• Support and reports: support@bangerskies.com or bangerskies.com/support
• Privacy: privacy@bangerskies.com