Privacy and your details

The suggest a change form

Sending the form passes us three things: your name, whatever contact details you choose to add, and your message about a provider, a fact or a link. That is all we collect, and no account is needed.

Your name and contact details are never shown on the site. They are used for one purpose only, to follow up on your message.

Adults are the intended users of the form; we never knowingly gather information about a child under 15.

Counting page views

Page views are counted by a small script that this site serves itself. No cookies are set and no profile of you is kept. A press on a contact button sends one event that records the button type, the provider and its activities, and nothing about you.

Your location

Only a press on the location button makes the site ask where you are. Your browser keeps it for as long as the tab stays open, uses it to calculate distances and sends it nowhere, not even to us.

Pick a station, a school or a suburb by name and your browser holds on to it until you come back.

The filter map is drawn with OpenStreetMap data. Once you open it, your browser loads map tiles from OpenStreetMap’s servers, and those servers, as with any website, can see your IP address and the part of the map on screen. The point you select is kept in your browser.

Providers in the directory and your rights

What the directory shows is what providers already publish for families, on their own websites and Google listings. If a provider is a sole trader, a phone number or address appears only where that person has made it public.

This information serves a single aim, letting parents compare activities for their children. It is never sold, never shared with advertisers and never used for profiling.

Anyone named in the directory may use the form to find out what we hold about them and to have it corrected or removed. Under the Australian Privacy Principles you will hear back within 30 days.

Deleting your message

Want a message you sent removed? Send the form once more, say which message you mean, and it will be deleted within 30 days.