Privacy Policy | Aged Care Reform Now

Privacy and cookie policy

This page explains how website users information is collected, stored and used.

Who we are

Aged Care Reform Now is a grassroots community collective. Our website address is: https://agedcarereformnow.com.au/

You have rights over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes, or data that may have been submitted to third party services we occasionally use for campaigns. In these circumstances the campaign will include a link to the relevant privacy, cookie, and data policies of these services.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Email and IP address

Data collected via comments left on the site
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Data collected via newsletter form
If you’ve given us your express consent, we also use your email address to share news via our newsletter. This consent can be withdrawn or modified at any time by unsubscribing.

Information you shared on forms may be saved via cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.

Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Media you might share

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites may also collect data about you

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics – who we share your data with

Your privacy and data is important to us. Your information including your name and contact details provided via contact forms, comments forms, or newsletter subscriptions will never be shared with any third party without your permission.

General meta data around your location, browser type, and what pages you have visited on this site may be recorded by services we use to analyse and report on website traffic. This information helps us to improve the website and understand what information is useful to you.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.