Privacy Policy: What Data We Collect and Why Australia 2026 New

Under Australian privacy law and comparable regimes you have the right to:

• Ask what personal data we hold about you.
• Ask for a correction if something is wrong.
• Ask us to delete your data from our systems.
• Withdraw consent for anything you previously agreed to.

To exercise any of these rights, write to the contact address in the footer. We respond within 30 days and tell you honestly what we can and cannot do under the law.

You do not need to give a reason when asking to see or delete your data — the law does not require it, and neither do we. Please include enough information to help us find the relevant records (for example, the e-mail address you wrote to us from), and expect a reply from the editorial inbox rather than from a legal team.

If you are unhappy with how we handled a privacy request, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) — their website explains the complaint process in plain language.

We rely on a small number of service providers:

• A static hosting provider that serves the pages you are reading.
• A content delivery network that caches images and CSS close to you.
• An analytics tool that reports aggregated traffic data.
• An e-mail provider that handles messages sent to the editorial inbox.

Operators we link out to are independent businesses with their own privacy policies — review the operator policy before you register there.

If a provider changes, we update the list on this page and, when the change is material (new jurisdiction, new category of processing), we note it at the top of the page for a month. You can always ask for the current list in writing — the contact page tells you how.

We do not share your personal data with advertisers, data brokers or any analytics tool that runs auctions on it. The analytics we use reports aggregated events — not individual sessions tied to an identity.

This site uses a small number of cookies and similar storage items:

• A session cookie set by the hosting layer — strictly necessary to serve pages.
• An analytics cookie that gives us aggregated page-view data. You can block it in your browser without losing site features.

We do not set advertising or tracking cookies. If we add any in the future, we will update this page before they go live.

Browsers also store local-storage items that are not technically cookies — a small amount of data the site keeps on your device to remember your preferences (for example, whether you dismissed a responsible-gaming reminder). You can clear this at any time from your browser settings; nothing on the site stops working if you do.

Operators we link to may set their own cookies on their own domains once you click through. Those are covered by the operator's privacy policy, not ours.

We collect a short list of items when you use this site:

• Server access logs (IP address, browser, request time, page visited) kept for a short window to debug the site and fight abuse.
• Analytics events (page views, broad country, device class) — we never collect names, e-mails or payment data through analytics.
• Any e-mail you send us from the contact page — we keep the thread until the issue is resolved and then delete it on the cycle below.

We do not ask for an account, we do not store passwords and we do not process payments. There is nothing on this site to pay for.

Server access logs are rotated every 14 days. Analytics events are stored by the analytics provider under its own retention schedule and are never joined to your e-mail or any other identifier we control. If you disable JavaScript in your browser, the analytics tool receives nothing at all — the site still works, we just know a little less about how it is used.

We do not use fingerprinting libraries, we do not load third-party advertising networks and we do not embed social-media pixels. If any of that changes, this page is updated before the change goes live.

We update this policy when the way we handle data changes — a new analytics tool, a new hosting provider, a new feature on the site. When that happens, the date at the top of the page is refreshed and the change is summarised at the top for a month so returning readers can see what is new.

We keep the previous version of this policy for a rolling twelve months — if you need to check what the policy said on a specific day, write to the contact address and we will send you the archived file. That way you are never stuck comparing versions from memory.

The current version is the one published on this page. Nothing in older versions overrides it.

The editorial team handles privacy requests directly — the site is small enough that there is no need for a separate data-protection officer. Write to the editorial address with "Privacy" in the subject line. We will route the request to the editor who handles compliance matters.

We treat privacy requests as editorial correspondence — plain English, clear timeline, no legal jargon unless you ask for it. If your request touches an operator you reached via a link from the site, we will point you to the operator's privacy contact and copy you on the handover so nothing drops between the two teams.

For press enquiries about our privacy practices, use the media address on the contact page.

Data we collect is used strictly to run the site and answer e-mails:

• Server logs — to keep the site up, catch bots and debug errors.
• Analytics — to understand which pages Australian readers find useful so we can keep them up to date.
• E-mail threads — to answer your question and, if we cite your example, to do so anonymously.

We do not build profiles for advertising and we do not sell any dataset to third parties.

Anonymised traffic data helps us notice when a page breaks — a 404 spike or a sudden drop in average time on page is often the first signal that something has gone wrong. Being able to see that quickly is the main reason we keep an analytics tool at all.

We publish an annual transparency note on how many reader e-mails we received, how many led to corrections and how many to new content. The note contains no personal data — just totals. It is linked from the homepage in January each year.