Privacy policy

Who we are

AI Brief Australia is an independent publication based in Sydney and published by Momentum Group Agency Pty Ltd (ACN 673 632 801), which is "we" in this policy and the entity that holds what you give us. Whether or not the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) applies to a publication of our size, we handle personal information the way its Australian Privacy Principles ask.

What we collect, and why

Your email address, if you subscribe. When you leave your email in the form at the foot of a page, we keep the address, the time, the page you were on and the country your connection came from. We use it for one thing: to tell you when a guide is added or updated. We do not sell it, rent it or share it, and we do not send anything else.

What you write to us, if you use the contact form. We keep your name, email address and phone number, your organisation if you give it, your message, how you found us if you tell us, the time, the page you were on, the address of your connection and the state and country it came from, so the editor can read and answer it, and so we can tell real messages from automated ones. You get a short email confirming it arrived. It is used for nothing else.

Where you came from. If you arrive from a link that carries campaign tags or an advertising click id, the site remembers them for 90 days in your browser, carries them on links within the site, and attaches them to anything you send us, so we know which channels bring readers who write. The same tags reach Google Analytics.

How the site is used. We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which guides are read, which pages people arrive on and roughly where from, so we know what to write next. It sets cookies in your browser to tell one visit from the next, and sends Google the pages you view and a shortened form of your connection's address. We do not use it to identify you, and we have not turned on advertising features. Google's own privacy policy covers what it does with the data. Blocking cookies or using a tracker blocker stops it and the site still works.

Server logs. The site is hosted by Netlify, which records the usual details of each request, such as the address of the connection and the page asked for, in the ordinary course of running a web server.

Nothing else. Reading the site, using the contents list, or copying a document with the copy control sends us nothing. The copy control works inside your browser.

Where it is kept

Subscriber addresses and contact messages are kept in a store attached to this site on Netlify, and copied to a spreadsheet in our own Google Workspace account so the editor can read them. Both providers store data outside Australia. We have not chosen an email list provider; when we do, this page will say which, and what they receive.

Third parties your browser reaches

The photographs on the site are served by Unsplash from its own servers, so your browser asks Unsplash for each picture and Unsplash sees the request the way any image host does. The typefaces are served by Google Fonts, and the analytics script by Google, in the same way. Links to other sites take you to pages we do not control, with their own policies.

Leaving the list, and asking about your information

To leave the list or to ask what we hold about you, have it corrected, or have it deleted, write to the editor. We will answer within a month. If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Changes

When what we collect changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.