Privacy Policy
1 – About The Repository
The Repository is an independent media business dedicated to covering what’s happening in the WordPress ecosystem. We’re committed to providing quality news content and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect to how we manage your personal information.
We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The National Privacy Principles (NPPs) govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your personal information.
You can find out more about the Australian Privacy Principles on the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/
2 – What is personal information and why do we collect it?
Personal information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of personal information we collect includes names, emails, addresses, and how you use our newsletter and website.
This personal information is obtained in many ways including:
Newsletter: If you sign up to receive The Repository weekly newsletter, you provide your email. Your email is used solely for the delivery of the newsletter to your inbox. We would never share your email with any third parties. You can always unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails.
Donations: If you choose to become a supporter of The Repository (thank you!) you provide your name, email, address, donation amount, and payment card information. We use fundjournalism.org to handle these transactions, and they will receive your payment information to process your donation. If you support on a monthly basis, you can update or cancel your recurring donation at any time by contacting us at he***@th***********.email
Communications: If you contact us via email, either by writing to us directly or by replying to our newsletter or automated emails, we will receive your name and email and any other information you choose to provide.
When we collect personal information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.
We also collect information automatically:
Usage information: The Repository lives on the publishing platform WordPress, and we use MailPoet to send our emails. MailPoet includes a statistical analytics feature to help publishers understand how their subscribers use their newsletters. This means that information about the emails subscribers open and the links they click are represented in these statistics. We also use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. This means that anonymized information of the pages readers visit and the times of those visits are represented in these statistics. MailPoet and/or Google may add other features to their analytics tools at any time, which will be available to me as a publisher, though we usually only look at high-level statistics.
We use your information solely to communicate with you if you have opted in to receive the newsletter, to facilitate donations, and to better understand how you use the site in order to improve it. We don’t share your information with any “third parties,” though it does live — securely — within our website (hosted by Kinsta) and externally to process donations (fundjournalism.org).
3 – Sensitive information
Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information.
Sensitive information will be used by us only:
- For the primary purpose for which it was obtained
- For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose
- With your consent; or where required or authorised by law.
4 – Third parties
Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your personal information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may—though very unlikely—be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.
5 – Disclosure of personal information
Your personal information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:
- Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
- Where required or authorised by law.
6 – Security of personal information
Your personal information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.
When your personal information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal information. However, most of the personal information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.
7 – Access to your personal information
If you’d like to unsubscribe from the newsletter, you can click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails.
You may access the personal information we hold about you and update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your personal information, please contact us at he***@th***********.email
In order to protect your personal information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
8 – Maintaining the quality of your personal information
It is an important to us that your personal information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your personal information is accurate, complete and up to date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
9 – Transferring data
Because The Repository is based in Australia, if you visit our website from another country, your data may be transferred to Australia and other countries that may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided your information.
10 – Policy updates
This policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.
11 – Privacy policy complaints and enquiries
If you have any queries or complaints about our privacy policy please contact us via email at he***@th***********.email
This policy was last updated on November 3, 2024.
