What personal information we gather and why?

We need this information for two reasons:

In order to provide services to our members and also that we may interact with our members

Under no circumstances will we sell members’ information. The only time information is disclosed to a third party is when it is related to the provision and/or improvement of services or if we are required to do so by Australian law. In both cases these entities meet with strict guidelines to preserve members’ privacy.

Cookies

Cookies are used on this site to make things easy for our members. These pieces of information are used to improve the way our site works so that you don't have to enter the same information over and over again.

The information we collect is not personal and is used to help us improve the content and services we offer. Statistics about how many people visit and use a website are kept track of.

You can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies if you leave a comment on our site. These are for your convenience so you don't have to re-enter your information every time you leave a comment. These cookies can be kept for a year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to see if your browser can handle cookies. This cookie has no personal information in it, and when you close your browser, it goes away.

When you log in, we'll also set up a few cookies to remember your login information and the way you want your screen to look. Cookies for logging in last for two days, and cookies for setting up your screen last for a year. If you choose "Remember Me," you will be able to use the same login for two weeks. If you sign out of your account, the cookies that let you sign in will be deleted.

If you make changes to an article or publish it, your browser will save an extra cookie. This cookie doesn't contain any personal information; it just shows the post ID of the article you just edited. It's only good for one day.

Comments

When people leave comments on the site, we collect the information from the comments form as well as their IP address and the user agent string from their browser. This helps us find spam.

Embedded content from other websites

There may be embedded content in some of the articles on this site (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). When you embed content from another website, it acts exactly the same as if the visitor had gone to that other website.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and watch how you interact with embedded content. They may also be able to track how you interact with embedded content if you have an account on that website and are logged in.

We don't share the email addresses we keep track of for specific services and subscriptions that people have asked for; we keep them safe. Members can stop getting this kind of information at any time by unsubscribing through the given ways.