Privacy Policy — Lighthouses of Australia

Lighthouses of Australia is committed to protecting your privacy and handling personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

Who we are

Lighthouses of Australia is an independent reference website operated from Australia. Our contact email is hello@decisionlab.com.au.

What information we collect

We collect two kinds of information:

• Analytics data — when you visit the site, Google Analytics 4 records an anonymised session including your approximate location (country/region), device type, browser, pages you visit, and how you arrived. This data is aggregated and does not identify you personally.
• Contact form submissions — if you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address and the content of your message. We use this solely to respond to your enquiry.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are useful and where visitors come from. Analytics data is held by Google under their privacy policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Our own analytics

As well as Google Analytics, this site uses a small analytics script that we run ourselves. Each time you load a page or interact with it, the script sends a short record to our hosting provider, Netlify, where it is stored. A record contains: the time; the page address without anything after a "?"; the page's type and, where the address names one, the listing, article or tool it shows; the website that sent you here (its address up to the domain, nothing more); your device type (mobile, tablet or desktop) and browser family; and, if the link you followed had them, its utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign campaign tags, which are kept for the rest of your visit. It also records when you click a phone, email or external link (for external links, the destination website's domain; never the phone number or email address), when you submit a form (the form's name or ID, never what you typed), labelled results that a tool on the page reports, whether you scrolled past 50% and 90% of a page, and whether the page was visible for 30 seconds.

Netlify tells us which country your connection comes from; we do not store your IP address. Your browser's user-agent is used to work out its browser family and to flag automated traffic such as search-engine crawlers; the user-agent itself is not stored. To group page views into visits, the script keeps a random visitor ID in this site's local storage that is replaced each day (UTC), and a random session ID in session storage that is replaced after 30 minutes of inactivity or when you close the tab. If your browser blocks storage, a temporary ID is used for that page only. The script sets no cookies, is not used for advertising and does not link your visits to other websites. The data is processed and stored by Netlify on our behalf and is not sold. We delete these records 14 months after they are made; after that we keep only daily totals, such as how many times a page was viewed, which cannot be linked to a visit or a visitor ID. You can remove the stored IDs at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.

Google AdSense

This site displays advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies to personalise ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. You can opt out of personalised advertising via Google's Ads Settings.

Google Fonts

We use Google Fonts to load typefaces. When you visit a page, your browser requests font files from Google's servers; Google may log your IP address in the process. This is a short-lived technical log, not tied to any Google Analytics identity.

Netlify hosting

The site is hosted by Netlify. Netlify logs HTTP request information (IP address, timestamp, URL requested, response code) in standard webserver logs for security and operational purposes. These logs are retained by Netlify and are governed by Netlify's privacy policy.

Cookies

This site uses cookies for analytics (Google Analytics) and advertising (Google AdSense). It does not set its own first-party cookies for any other purpose. You can disable cookies in your browser, though some site features may not work correctly.

Your rights under Australian privacy law

Under the Australian Privacy Principles, you have the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of any personal information that is inaccurate
• Request that we delete personal information we hold (subject to legal retention obligations)
• Make a complaint about our handling of your personal information

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@decisionlab.com.au. We'll respond within 30 days.

Children's privacy

This site is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Data retention

Contact form submissions are retained for 24 months after the last related correspondence, then deleted. Google Analytics is set to keep event-level data, such as individual page views, for 2 months, and user-level data linked to its cookie for 14 months after your most recent visit; Google deletes expired data in a monthly process. These settings do not apply to the aggregated reports in Google Analytics, which show totals rather than individual visitors.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced on this page with a revised "last updated" date. This policy was last updated on 10 October 2026.

Contact

For any privacy-related questions, contact us at hello@decisionlab.com.au with "Privacy" in the subject line. If you're unsatisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.