What is collected
If you subscribe, your email address and the date you consented. If you save a gift finder shortlist, the answers you chose in the finder (the kind of dad, budget and occasion) are stored with your address so the reminder can be about the right person. Nothing else. There is no account to create and no purchase made on this site, so there is no payment information to collect.
Form submissions are received and stored for us by Netlify, Inc., the company that hosts this site, on infrastructure in the United States, the same way the site’s pages are. We keep your address until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it.
Google Analytics records which pages are visited, roughly which region a visit came from, and how you arrived, against a random identifier stored in a cookie. It is not linked to your email address and is not used to identify anyone. The Analytics section below sets out exactly what is on and what is switched off.
What is never done with it
- It is not sold, rented, traded or shared with any merchant or third party.
- It is not used to build a profile of you.
- It is not passed to any of the retailers linked from this site. When you click through, the merchant sees a referral, not your details.
Getting off the list
Every email carries a working unsubscribe link. Under the Spam Act 2003 an unsubscribe request must be honoured within five working days and the facility must keep working for at least thirty days after the message was sent. We aim to action it immediately.
You can also email hello@dadgifts.com.au and ask, and it will be done manually.
Where the Privacy Act sits
The Privacy Act 1988 applies to organisations with an annual turnover above $3 million, and to any business that trades in personal information regardless of turnover. Dad Gifts Australia is below that threshold and does not trade in personal information, so it is not currently a covered entity.
The commitments on this page are made anyway, and would continue to apply if that changed.
Cookies and affiliate tracking
Dad Gifts Australia sets no advertising cookie of its own and runs no advertising network on this site. The one cookie set by this domain is the Google Analytics identifier described under Analytics below, which is used to count visits and nothing else.
Clicking through to a retailer is different, and worth understanding. Where a tracked affiliate relationship is active, that link passes through the affiliate network’s own domain on its way to the retailer. The network records the click and sets a cookie belonging to it, which is how a later purchase gets credited back to us. That cookie is set by the network, under the network’s terms, not ours, and the windows vary: seven days is common, thirty is the longest we would work with, and eBay’s is twenty-four hours.
We do not receive your name, your email address or your payment details from that process. What comes back is a commission line against a click.
You can block third-party cookies in your browser. Doing so does not change the price you pay and does not stop you buying anything. It only means we do not get paid.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages people actually read. It is turned on deliberately narrow, and the settings matter more than the brand name, so here is exactly what is on and what is off.
What it does: it sets a first-party cookie in your browser containing a random identifier, so a second visit is not counted as a new person. It records which pages you view, roughly which region you are in, and how you arrived. Your IP address is used to work out that region and is not stored by Google Analytics.
What is switched off: Google Signals, which would link your visit to a signed-in Google account across devices, and advertising personalisation, which would let this data feed advertising profiles. Both are disabled in the configuration. This site runs no advertising and builds no audience lists.
Google is a United States company and the data is processed on its global infrastructure, which means it leaves Australia. That is true of almost every analytics product, and it is stated here rather than buried.
You can opt out entirely by blocking cookies for this site, using a tracker-blocking extension, or installing Google’s own opt-out add-on. Nothing on this site stops working if you do.
There is no consent banner. Australian law does not currently require one for first-party analytics of this kind, and a banner that everyone clicks through without reading is not consent in any meaningful sense. If this site ever adds advertising, remarketing or cross-site tracking, that judgement changes and so does this page.