Privacy Policy
AU Political News provides Australian political source records and original explanatory content. This policy explains the categories of information that may be processed when you use the site and how third-party services used to operate, secure, measure and monetise the site may handle information.
Information you provide directly
The public website does not require visitors to create an account. If you contact us by email, we receive the information you choose to include in that message so we can respond to your enquiry, correction request, privacy question or technical report.
Technical logs, security and hosting
Our hosting and infrastructure providers may process technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, requested URL, timestamps and security-related request data. This information may be used to deliver the website, protect it from abuse, troubleshoot faults and understand reliability or performance.
The site is hosted using Cloudflare services. Cloudflare may process network and request information according to its own privacy terms and the services configured for this website.
Analytics and measurement
We may use privacy-respecting traffic measurement or analytics tools to understand aggregate website usage, such as which pages are visited, approximate device categories, referral sources and performance. The exact technologies used may change as the site develops. Where consent is legally required for a particular technology or region, we intend to use the relevant consent controls before activating that processing.
Google advertising and cookies
Google uses cookies to help serve and measure advertising. Google's use of advertising cookies may enable Google and its partners to serve ads based on a user's visit to this website and/or other websites, subject to the user's settings, consent choices and applicable law.
Users can manage or opt out of personalised Google advertising through Google Ads Settings. Information about how Google uses data when you use sites or apps that use Google services is available at Google's partner-sites information page.
Advertising technologies can include cookies, web beacons, IP addresses and similar identifiers used for ad delivery, frequency control, fraud prevention, measurement, reporting and, where permitted, personalisation. If we use additional advertising vendors, this policy may be updated to identify the relevant categories and choices.
Consent for visitors in regulated regions
Where Google or applicable law requires a consent management platform for advertising or other optional technologies, we intend to use a compliant consent mechanism before serving advertising that requires such consent. This includes regions where Google requires a certified consent management platform for particular publisher advertising use cases.
Facebook and Meta publishing integration
AU Political News may use Meta services to publish our own website content to an AU Political News Facebook Page. Information processed by Meta is also subject to Meta's own privacy policies and terms. The website does not use the Facebook publishing integration as a public login system for readers.
External links
Our articles link to political parties, parliamentary material, government agencies and other authoritative sources. Those external websites operate under their own privacy policies. Following an external link leaves the AU Political News website.
Children
AU Political News is a general-audience political information website and is not designed specifically for children under 13. We do not knowingly ask children to provide personal information through the public website.
Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy when our technology, advertising arrangements, analytics tools or legal obligations change. The date at the top of this page shows the most recent review.
Contact
For privacy enquiries, contact support@stmonicait.com.au. For editorial corrections, see our Corrections Policy.