Privacy notice

This notice explains what personal information PadreCap collects when you visit padrecap.com, why we collect it, who we share it with and what you can ask us to do about it. It is written to sit alongside the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

Who is responsible

PadreCap is the editorial desk that publishes padrecap.com and is responsible for the handling of personal information described here. Questions, access requests and complaints can be sent to team@padrecap.com. We aim to acknowledge messages within five business days.

What we collect

Category	What it covers
Server log data	Your IP address, the user-agent string sent by your browser, the pages requested, referring address, and the date and time of each request.
Cookies and similar storage	A record of your cookie choice kept in your browser’s local storage, plus any analytics or advertising cookies set once you accept them. The full list is in the cookie notice.
Subscription form data	The email address you enter, the name you enter if you choose to, and the fact that you ticked the consent box together with the date it happened.
Push notification identifiers	A subscription identifier generated by your browser and held by our notification provider, along with basic device and browser type. This is created only if you allow notifications.
Correspondence	Anything you choose to include in an email to the desk.

We do not ask for a telephone number or a postal address, and there is no field for either anywhere on this site. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Why we collect it, and on what basis

• To publish and protect the site. Log data lets us serve pages, diagnose faults and identify abusive traffic. This rests on our legitimate interest in operating a working, secure website.
• To send new issues. Your email address and notification identifier are used only to tell you when a new issue is published. This rests on the consent you give by ticking the box on the form.
• To measure use and show advertising. Analytics and advertising cookies help us understand which recaps are read and allow advertising placements to be shown and counted. These rest on the consent you give through the cookie banner, and nothing in this category is set before you accept.
• To answer you. Correspondence is kept so we can reply and, where relevant, publish a correction.

How long we keep it

• Server logs: up to 12 months, then deleted or aggregated so individuals cannot be identified.
• Subscription details: until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove them, and for up to 30 days afterwards in backups.
• Push notification identifiers: until you turn notifications off in your browser, after which the identifier stops working and is cleared by the provider.
• Cookie choice: 12 months in your browser, or until you clear your browser storage.
• Correspondence: up to 24 months from the last message in the thread.

Who else handles the information

We use a small number of service providers, each acting on our instructions for the purpose described:

• Hosting and content delivery. Our hosting provider processes server log data in order to deliver the site.
• OneSignal. Our provider for browser notifications and issue emails. It processes the email address you submit, the name if you give one, the tags attached to your subscription and the notification identifier created by your browser.
• Advertising networks. Where you have accepted advertising cookies, an advertising network may process cookie identifiers and general device information in order to select and count the advertising shown on the page.
• Google Fonts. Typefaces are requested from Google’s font service, which receives your IP address as part of that request.

Some of these providers operate servers outside Australia, including in the United States and the European Union. Where information is disclosed overseas we take reasonable steps to ensure it is handled in a way consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles. Personal information is never disclosed to anyone beyond the providers listed above, and your details are not passed to the developers of the games covered on this site.

Cookies

Cookies and similar browser storage are described separately, category by category, in the cookie notice. Necessary storage is limited to remembering your cookie choice so the banner does not reappear on every page. Analytics and advertising categories are only activated after you press Accept, and you can change your mind at any time by clearing site data in your browser, which brings the banner back.

Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles you may:

• ask for access to the personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct information that is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or misleading;
• cancel your consent to notifications or issue emails at any time, without giving a reason;
• ask us to delete information we no longer need to keep;
• ask how a particular category of information has been used or disclosed;
• deal with us anonymously where that is practicable, which is the case for simple reading of the site.

Write to team@padrecap.com to exercise any of these. We will respond within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the supervisory authority for privacy in Australia, at oaic.gov.au.

Unsubscribing

Browser notifications can be stopped from the site settings in your browser, usually reached by selecting the padlock or information icon next to the address. Issue emails carry an unsubscribe link. Either action ends the subscription; you do not need to contact us first, though we will act on a request sent to the desk as well.

Security

The site is served over an encrypted connection. Access to subscription data is limited to the people who need it to publish an issue and is protected by individual accounts with multi-factor authentication. No system is perfect, and if a breach were ever likely to cause serious harm we would notify affected people and the OAIC in line with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.

Changes to this notice

If this notice changes we will update the date at the top of the page. Where a change materially affects how we handle information already collected, we will say so in the next issue sent to subscribers.