> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Meta's New Commercial Terms Start 30 October. What Australian Businesses Should Check - URL: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/news-meta-commercial-terms-australia-2026/ - Published: 2026-10-24T20:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-24T19:59:59.000Z - Description: From 30 October, Meta's business terms let it crawl websites associated with your business, and say its AI features may make mistakes at your risk. - Author: Adam - Tags: News, AI Assistants & Chatbots, Meta AI, #news > **TL;DR:** From 30 October 2026, Meta's business terms let it crawl websites associated with your business and put the risk of its AI features on you. **Posted:** 25 October 2026 · **By Adam** · **Category:** AI Assistants & Chatbots ## What changed Meta's updated Commercial Terms "will come into effect on 30 October 2026", replacing the 6 March 2024 version. We read both on 23 October 2026. Four changes stand out: - **Automated access to your website.** You authorise Meta to "use automated software (such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers and user agents)" and "create test credentials" on domains "associated with your products or services", or made available through your or users' use of Meta's products. Purposes include to "provide, develop, improve, research and maintain" Meta's ads and business products. The current terms have no such clause. - **AI features at your risk.** A new AI Features clause says AI features "may make mistakes". You assume "any and all risks" of those features and their output, and must not remove AI watermarks. - **An Australian clause.** If you are a small business and "reside, or your business is located in Australia", Australian law applies to your claims against Meta and Australian courts can hear them. The terms do not define small business. The current terms send claims from outside the US to courts in California or Ireland. - **Notice of changes.** Meta now commits to at least 30 days' notice of material changes, except for safety, security or legal changes. ## Who it covers Any business use of Meta's products: ads, Pages, catalogues, Ads Manager, Meta Business Suite and measurement. Supplemental terms cover Business Agents and the Meta AI business assistant. ## Why it matters for Australians The OAIC's AI products guidance, updated 17 January 2025, says privacy obligations apply to personal information put into an AI system and to output containing it. It says due diligence is not "set and forget". Treat the Meta AI business assistant like any other AI product. ## What to do before 30 October 1. Read the new terms and any AI supplemental terms. 2. Review what your public pages expose. The terms do not say whether Meta honours robots.txt. 3. Set a rule for staff: no customer personal information in Meta AI tools, and a human checks AI-generated ads before they run. 4. Save a dated copy of both versions. ## Does this change our recommendation? No. Our [Meta AI review](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-meta-ai-australia-2026/) stands. The new terms place AI-output risk on the business. The terms also say small businesses keep statutory rights that cannot be excluded in some countries. This is general information, not legal advice. ## Sources 1. Meta, Commercial Terms (updated version, effective 30 October 2026): https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial\_terms\_preview (Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20261022231437/https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial\_terms\_preview; capture dated 22 October; same-day save submitted 23 October but not yet indexed; live text read 23 October 2026). Local text capture: AI-Directory/Dossiers/captures/meta-commercial-terms-2026-10-23.txt. 2. Meta, Commercial Terms (current version, effective 6 March 2024): https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial\_terms (Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20261018201710/https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial\_terms; capture dated 18 October; live text read 23 October 2026). 3. OAIC, Guidance on privacy and the use of commercially available AI products, published 21 October 2024, updated 17 January 2025: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-guidance-for-organisations-and-government-agencies/guidance-on-privacy-and-the-use-of-commercially-available-ai-products (Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20261022220058/https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-guidance-for-organisations-and-government-agencies/guidance-on-privacy-and-the-use-of-commercially-available-ai-products). Read 23 October 2026. --- *Read the full* [*Meta AI review*](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-meta-ai-australia-2026/) *→*