Readers who arrive looking at lower-stakes deposit options tend to share one thing with most Australians: they would rather their inbox and browser history stayed their own. That is the spirit of this notice. The paragraphs below explain what you choose to give us, what is gathered passively in the background, and the small set of reasons that any of it exists in the first place.
Information you provide directly (newsletter / contact)
Two parts of the site ask for information up front. The first is the weekly email round-up — when you subscribe, you give us an email address and a confirmation that you actually wanted in. The second is the contact form, where you might leave a name (optional), an email, and the message itself. Nothing else is required, and there are no hidden fields capturing anything in the background.
Your email address never gets passed to a partner for their own mailing. It sits with the email-service provider that powers the round-up and nowhere else. Unsubscribing takes one click at the foot of any newsletter, and that action is honoured immediately rather than "within 30 days" as some larger sites still phrase it.
Why we collect this information (purposes)
Each category of information here serves a single, narrow purpose, and we try to keep it that way.
- The email address you give the newsletter is used to send the newsletter — nothing else.
- The contact form is used to reply to you, then closed off once the conversation ends.
- Anonymous analytics tell us which budget-focused articles are actually read and which need a rewrite.
- Security logging helps us spot bots and scraping attempts before they become a problem.
If a new purpose ever comes up — for example, a reader survey — that would be a separate, opt-in step rather than a quiet repurposing of data you already shared. The reason that matters is that consent at sign-up cannot reasonably stretch to cover a use that was not on the table when you signed up.
Affiliate relationships and ranking integrity
Honest answer: the lights stay on because some operators pay us a commission when readers click an outbound link and decide to open an account. That arrangement is the funding model, and it is disclosed plainly here and on each review. What it doesn't do is bend the rankings. A review can sit at the top of a list while paying us nothing, and a paying partner can sit lower down — or not appear at all — if the underlying criteria say so. Where a particular operator has chosen not to enter any commercial relationship with us, that's noted in the review itself, in plain language and without euphemism.
How long we keep information (retention)
Keeping data longer than the job requires is a slow-burning risk for both the reader and the publisher, so retention here is deliberately short.
- Server logs: rotated every 30 days
- Newsletter subscriber record: held until you unsubscribe, then a short suppression note so an old address is not accidentally re-added later
- Contact-form correspondence: closed off and removed 12 months after the last reply
- Analytics: aggregated traffic figures kept for trend analysis; raw session records expire after 14 months
- Off-site backups: a rolling 35-day cycle, then overwritten
Your rights under the Privacy Act 1988
The Privacy Act gives Australian readers some practical levers, and we want to make those easy to actually pull.
- Ask what personal information we hold about you, if any
- Ask us to correct anything that is wrong
- Ask us to delete what we hold (subject to a few legal carve-outs around backups)
- Withdraw consent for the newsletter at any time
- Make a complaint, first to us and then to the regulator
The privacy regulator is the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), and their site has plain-language guides if you'd like to read up before getting in touch.
Age requirement (18+ for gambling-related content)
The content here is intended for adults aged 18 and over. Australian law sets that age threshold for gambling participation, and by reading further you are confirming that you meet it. We do not knowingly collect any information from people under 18, and if you believe a younger reader has signed up for the newsletter, please let us know so the address can be removed.
How to contact us
For anything privacy-related — access requests, deletion requests, newsletter trouble, or simply a question about something on the page — email privacy@20-deposit-casino-australia.com.au. A short, specific message tends to get a quicker reply than a long, general one. We aim to respond within five business days for routine queries and 30 days for formal requests, in line with regulator expectations.
