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Cookie Policy
Effective date: 19 April 2026. This Policy describes how Shoraxileishrane.world uses cookies and similar technologies, how you can control them, and how Australian and international expectations fit together.
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Note: This Cookie Policy should be read with our Privacy Policy. Together they describe how we meet expectations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), in particular APP 1 (transparent management) and APP 5 (notification about collection). For disclosures about automated systems and artificial intelligence (including future features that might log interactions), see Privacy Policy — AI systems.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include local storage (for example storing your cookie choices in the browser), session storage, pixel tags, and scripts that read or write identifiers. Some technologies are “first party” (set by us) and others are “third party” (set by embedded content or external services).
2. Why we use them (categories)
- Strictly necessary / functional: required for basic site operation, security, load balancing, or remembering your cookie preferences. These are used without optional marketing consent where they do not go beyond what is essential.
- Analytics (optional): helps us understand aggregate traffic, popular pages, and technical errors. We only enable analytics identifiers if you opt in through the cookie banner or settings panel.
- Marketing (optional): may remember campaign parameters, support frequency capping, or help measure whether display ads (for example Google Ads) delivered impressions or clicks on our pages. We only enable this category if you opt in. Any future commercial email lists will also comply with the Spam Act 2003 (Cth) (clear sender identification, consent where required, and functional unsubscribe).
3. Australian privacy law and cookies
The Privacy Act defines personal information broadly. Certain cookie identifiers, device identifiers, or IP addresses may be personal information if they can reasonably be linked to an identifiable individual. Where that is the case, we aim to:
- provide clear information before or at the time of collection (APP 5);
- only use or disclose that information for purposes you would expect or as otherwise permitted by the Privacy Act (APP 6);
- allow you to exercise access, correction, and complaint rights described in our Privacy Policy (APPs 12–13).
OAIC guidance explains that organisations should be transparent about online tracking and give individuals meaningful choices where practicable. Our banner and this Policy are part of that transparency.
4. Consent, rejection, and changing your mind
When you first visit, you may Accept all optional categories, Reject optional categories, or open Cookie settings to toggle analytics and marketing individually. Strictly necessary items remain on because they are required to operate the site and store your choice. You may revisit preferences by clearing site data and reloading, or when we publish a new consent version key in our scripts.
5. Retention periods
Consent strings stored in localStorage remain until you delete them or we change the storage key after a material update to this Policy. Session cookies expire when you close the browser. If analytics vendors are active, their cookies typically persist from one session up to approximately thirteen months depending on the vendor; we will list vendor names and links to their policies if we deploy third-party analytics beyond basic hosting logs.
6. Third-party content and cross-border processing
We may embed maps, fonts, or icon libraries hosted overseas. Those providers may process technical data (including IP address) in accordance with their own policies. Where personal information is disclosed to an overseas recipient, our Privacy Policy explains how APP 8 applies. You can reduce third-party calls by blocking third-party cookies in your browser, though some embedded features may then not display correctly.
7. Browser and device controls
Major browsers let you block or delete cookies, block third-party cookies, or enable “do not track” signals (which websites may interpret differently). Blocking all cookies may prevent our consent banner from remembering your choice. You may also use private browsing modes for a single session without retaining cookies after exit.
8. Analytics and pseudonymity
Where we offer analytics, we prefer configuration that aggregates or pseudonymises data and avoids collecting unnecessary identifiers. If you opt out, we do not read analytics cookies for your browser on subsequent visits (subject to caching and technical limits).
9. EU and UK visitors
If the EU GDPR or UK GDPR applies to particular processing, we provide consent controls for non-essential cookies and describe purposes in this Policy. You may withdraw consent at any time using the same controls.
10. Contact
Questions about cookies or this Policy: partnership@shoraxileishrane.world or contact form. Postal address: 14/102 Wises Rd, Buderim QLD 4556, Australia.