Privacy & Disclosures

Who we are

Our website address is: https://shadylanes.com.au which is owned and managed by Online Encounters Pty Ltd ABN: 47 114 919 158
Your main point of contact is Gayle Dallaston

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact forms & Comments

When visitors use a contact form or leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the 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.

Media

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

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. 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.

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Content from other websites

Content we publish in directory and event listings is created in-house or is publicly available online.

Website members are responsible for the content of the listings they post.

The exception is the image of the anonymous hand-made card. If this is your work, please contact us and we’ll be pleased to provide attribution.

Analytics

We use anonymous data from Statcounter to assess the usability of the site.

Who we share your data with

We do not share any unpublished data with anybody.

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, 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.

What rights you have 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.

Your contact information

We recommend that you only supply information to go on the pages to be published that you are happy to be publicly available.

Contact information that you send to us on the contact form will not be published.

Disclosures

Some links to other sites are affiliate links which means we may receive a small commission. We do not receive any personal information about who has followed those links and it does not affect the price you pay. This income is used to offset some of the costs of providing this platform.