Privacy and Cookies Policy

Privacy Policy

ANU recognises that your privacy is very important. The way we collect, use, disclose, secure and dispose of your personal information is governed by our compliance with, and obligations as an ‘agency’ under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

The What Australia Thinks website adheres to the ANU Privacy Policy.

Cookies Policy

What is a Cookie?

For an explanation of a web-based Cookie, please refer to wikipedia’s entry here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

How to block cookies?

You can choose to block cookies in your browser. Please refer to this wikihow page on how to block cookies: https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies. Note that blocking all cookies on websites will affect the functionality of most websites.

whataustraliathinks.org.au Cookies:

When a user accesses any web page within the whataustraliathinks.org.au website, Google Analytics logs the following:

• the IP address of the user’s browser;
• the date and time of the user’s visit to the site;
• the pages the user accessed and documents downloaded;
• the site previously visited before the user landed on whataustraliathinks.org.au; and
• the type of browser with which the user is accessing the site

Unless blocked, accessing pages from whataustraliathinks.org.au results in the following cookies being placed in your browser:

Cookie	Set by	Expires
_ga	Google Analytics	2 years after cookie creation date and time
_gat_gtag_[property_id]	Google Analytics	1 minute after cookie creation date and time
_gid	Google Analytics	1 day after cookie creation date and time
wat_aoc	What Australia Thinks	7 days after cookie creation date and time
wat_privacy	What Australia Thinks	1 year after cookie creation date and time
wat_test_cookie	What Australia Thinks	Session only (deleted when browser closed)

Each cookie can be inspected and deleted in your browser’s settings. To determine how to inspect cookies in your browser, use an internet search engine to search for “<browser type> view cookies” or similar based on the specific browser whose cookies you wish to inspect.

Third party websites

Users can connect to the third party websites Twitter and Facebook through whataustraliathinks.org.au’s Sharing capabilities. Each of these services has their own privacy practices and policies that you should familiarise yourself with if you visit either or both of these sites – whataustraliathinks.org.au does not have any control over these services’ privacy and cookie policies.