Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how visabetting-au.com collects, uses, stores and discloses personal information of visitors to this website. The policy is written to align with the Australian Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and applies to every page on this domain.
By using visabetting-au.com, you accept the practices described here. If you do not agree with any part of this policy, please do not continue to use the site.
We value your data on this platform.
What information we collect
visabetting-au.com does not require you to register an account, submit your name, your address or your contact details to read any article. We do not run a comments section, a newsletter sign-up or any user-account feature that would collect identifying information directly from you.
The site does collect a limited amount of technical information automatically when you load a page. This includes your IP address (used in aggregated form to detect abuse and to comply with Australian law), the type of browser and operating system you are using, the referring URL that brought you to the site, the pages you viewed and the time you spent on each page, and a coarse-level location derived from your IP address (country and approximate region only).
Where the site uses cookies for analytics or session purposes, those cookies are described in our separate cookie policy. The cookie policy explains what each category of cookie does and how to disable them in your browser.
How we use the information
We use the technical information described above for three narrow purposes. The first is operational: to keep the site running, identify performance issues and fix bugs. The second is analytical: to understand which articles readers find useful, in aggregate, so the editorial team can improve coverage. The third is legal: to comply with Australian record-keeping obligations and to respond to lawful requests from regulators or law-enforcement agencies.
visabetting-au.com does not sell your data. We do not provide your data to wagering operators, card issuers, advertisers or marketing companies for their own use. We do not build advertising profiles, and we do not share information with brokers.
Cookies and analytics
The site uses a small number of first-party cookies for essential functionality and a privacy-respecting analytics tool to count visits in aggregate. The analytics tool does not record your full IP address, does not share data with advertising platforms and does not track you across other websites. For full detail see our cookie policy.
See how we use tracking technology in our cookies policy.
Third-party services
visabetting-au.com embeds web fonts from Google Fonts. When your browser loads a page, it makes a request to Google’s servers to retrieve the font files. Google receives your IP address and your browser user-agent as part of that request. The site does not control what Google does with that information; please refer to Google’s published privacy notice for details. No other third-party scripts run on the site.
Outbound links to government regulators, peak bodies, academic publications and operator websites are provided as references. Once you click through, you leave visabetting-au.com and the destination site’s own privacy policy applies.
How we store information
Server logs and aggregated analytics are retained for the period required to operate the site and meet Australian legal obligations, and are then deleted. The information is stored on infrastructure subject to commercially reasonable security controls, including encryption in transit and access controls on administrative interfaces. No system is perfectly secure; we ask that you do not transmit sensitive personal information to the site.
Your rights under the Privacy Act 1988
Under the Australian Privacy Principles, you have the right to ask whether we hold any personal information about you, to request access to that information, to ask that it be corrected if it is inaccurate, and to make a complaint if you believe the site has mishandled your data. Because the site does not collect identifying information from you directly, in most cases the only data we could hold about you is server-log entries linked to your IP address.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights or make a privacy complaint, please use the contact pathway listed on our About page. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Children
visabetting-au.com is intended for adult readers (18 years and over). Wagering is restricted to adults under Australian law, and we do not direct content at minors. If you are under 18, please do not use this site.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy from time to time as the site evolves or as Australian privacy law changes. The current version is dated below. Material changes are reflected in the modification date; minor wording changes may be made without notice.