Terms of Service

Last updated 17 August 2026.

These terms apply when you use landbrief.com.au, buy a site report, or subscribe to development-application alerts.

What a Landbrief report is — and is not

A Landbrief site report is an automated information summary. It queries Queensland Government and local-council mapping services for a parcel and reports what those services published at the moment it ran.

It is not town-planning, legal, financial or valuation advice, and it is not a substitute for a licensed town planner, a solicitor, a surveyor, a building certifier, or the council itself. It does not tell you that a development will be approved, and it is not a planning certificate or any official council document.

Before you act on it — buying, selling, designing, or lodging an application — confirm the position with a licensed town planner or the relevant council.

Accuracy and data sources

• Mapping and register data is produced and maintained by state agencies and councils. We reproduce and interpret it; we don't author it.
• Those datasets change, contain errors, and are published at varying scales. Mapped boundaries are indicative, not survey-accurate.
• Our automated coverage varies by council. Every report discloses the coverage that applied to it.
• Development-application information is reproduced from public council registers and may lag the council's own record. The council's file is authoritative.

Reports you buy

• Price is shown before you pay. Payment is processed by Stripe.
• The report is generated and emailed to you, usually within minutes. For some councils an advisor completes the council-scheme verification by hand first — those reports are emailed within a few hours, and you may choose to receive the immediate state-data version instead.
• You may use the report for your own property dealings, including sharing it with your own advisers. You may not resell it or republish it as your own.
• We keep copyright in the report's format and wording; the underlying government data remains subject to its own licences.

Refunds

If a report fails to generate, arrives materially incomplete, or we can't service the address you paid for, email us and we'll refund it in full. Because the report is produced for your specific property on payment, we don't offer change-of-mind refunds once it has been delivered — but tell us if something's wrong and we'll make it right.

Nothing here limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law, including guarantees that cannot be excluded.

Free development application alerts

• Alerts are a free service, provided as-is, with no guarantee of timeliness or completeness. We add councils as their registers become available to us.
• We may not detect every application, and a council may publish late or not at all. Don't rely on alerts as your only means of knowing about a development.
• Unsubscribe any time from the link in any alert email.
• We may change or discontinue the free service.

Acceptable use

• Don't scrape, bulk-download or resell the site's content, or use it to build a competing dataset.
• Don't use the service unlawfully, or to harass anyone — including people named in public development-application records.
• We rate-limit requests to protect the government services we rely on.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, and except for rights under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded, our total liability for any claim connected with a report or with the alerts is limited to re-supplying the report or refunding what you paid for it. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profit or lost opportunity, arising from reliance on an automated information report.

Changes

We may update these terms; the date at the top shows when. The terms in force when you bought a report are the ones that apply to it.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia.