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Privacy Policy

Last updated November 2026.

In short

Audacia Travel is operated by Audacia Ventures (ABN 55 853 943 393). Audacia Travel doesn't require you to create an account or give us personal information to browse the site. If you click through to book something (like a tour or accommodation), the booking platform (Viator or Stay22) will collect what it needs to complete that booking — we don't see or hold your payment details ourselves. We use Google Analytics, with your consent, to understand how the site is used. If you sign up for our newsletter, we'll hold your email address until you unsubscribe. If you sign up for park alerts, Kit holds your email address and saved parks until you stop them. We never sell your information. Full detail below.

What we collect, and how

We collect information in two ways:

How we use it

We use this information to send the newsletter (if you've subscribed), respond to enquiries, understand which content is useful, and earn a referral commission when you book through one of our affiliate links. We don't sell your personal information to anyone.

Who we share it with

We share information with:

Clicking through shares your click and, if you proceed to book, your booking details, with that platform, for the purpose of completing your booking and paying Audacia a referral commission. Each platform handles your information under its own privacy policy, which we encourage you to read before booking. We don't receive your payment details, and we don't sell your information to anyone.

Data sent overseas

Some of the services above store or process data outside Australia — this includes Google Analytics (Google, primarily US-based infrastructure), Kit, Netlify and GitHub (all United States), Resend (a United States company; our alert emails use its Tokyo, Japan sending region, but we treat its delivery logs and records as held in the United States), and Tally (Belgium, with survey answers stored in the European Union), and our affiliate booking partners (each operates internationally). We take reasonable steps to only work with established, reputable platforms that maintain their own privacy and security standards, but we don't have direct control over how they handle data once it's disclosed to them — their own privacy policies govern that.

Newsletter

If you subscribe, we use your email address only to send you the Audacia newsletter: about one email a month, and occasionally a short note when something important changes at a place we cover. We won't add you without your active opt-in. Our emails are sent through Kit (kit.com), an email service based in the United States. Kit stores your email address and the date you signed up on our behalf, and records whether an email was opened and which links in it were clicked, so we can see what is useful. We don't sell your email address or give it to anyone else. Every email has an unsubscribe link, which takes effect straight away, and you can ask us to delete your address at any time by emailing hello@audaciatravel.com.au. If you sign up for a release reminder instead (for example, a reminder before Thorsborne Trail permits open), that is a separate sign-up: we use your email address only to send the two reminder emails described next to the sign-up box, through Kit on the same terms, and it does not subscribe you to the newsletter.

Park alerts

Parks you save on our Park alerts page stay in your own browser; we don't receive the list unless you sign up for alert emails. Park alerts and our monthly newsletter are separate subscriptions: signing up for one doesn't sign you up for the other. If you sign up for alerts and confirm through Kit's confirmation email, Kit stores your email address, your sign-up record, the parks you saved and, if you give them, your next trip's park and date, on our behalf. We check official park alerts once a day and email you when an alert naming one of your saved parks is first found, changes or is no longer listed, and the evening before your trip if you gave a date. If you also tick the optional box for booking reminders, we email you a reminder shortly before bookings open for a park you saved, when a park service has published the date and time, and a short note if that date or time changes: a few a year. Reminders are off unless you tick the box, and use the same email address, saved parks and providers as the alerts. We keep a record that you ticked the box, when, and the wording you saw. These emails aren't real-time warnings, and an alert that is no longer listed doesn't mean a park has reopened. Our daily check runs on GitHub's servers, and the alert emails are delivered through Resend (resend.com, run by Plus Five Five, Inc.): for each email, Resend receives your email address and the email's content, including the parks named in it, and keeps a record of the delivery. GitHub is in the United States. Resend is a United States company: we have set it to send alert emails from its Tokyo, Japan region, and it states that data is transferred to and processed in the United States. We treat its logs and delivery records as held in the United States too. We don't switch on open or click tracking for alert emails. Every alert and reminder email has a link to stop all of them. Using it clears your saved parks, trip details and booking-reminder record from Kit straight away and stops further alerts and reminders; it doesn't remove the parks saved in your browser or change a separate newsletter subscription. To stop the newsletter as well, use its own unsubscribe link or email hello@audaciatravel.com.au and we will stop everything. Kit keeps your email address and sign-up history afterwards, and Resend keeps its delivery records under its own retention arrangements. You can ask us to delete your email address and sign-up record at any time by emailing hello@audaciatravel.com.au. We don't sell this information.

Visitor reports

If you send a report on a park (road, water, creek crossings), Netlify receives it on our behalf with the park, state and month you give, and may log technical details such as your IP address. We don't ask who you are; please don't include names or contact details. We use reports to compare conditions on the ground with official alerts and don't publish them on the site.

Reader surveys

Now and then we ask readers to answer a short, optional survey to help us decide what to build. Surveys run on Tally (tally.so), a form service run by Tally BV in Belgium, which stores the answers in the European Union on our behalf. We don't ask for your name, and you can skip any survey entirely; please don't put names or other personal details in written answers. Giving an email address is optional. If you give one and tick the box to join our newsletter, we add it to our Kit list (see Newsletter above). If you give one without ticking that box, you are not subscribed and we use it only for that survey. Either way, the copy held with your survey answers is deleted once we have read the results, and in any case within three months of the survey closing. We use survey answers only to understand what readers need and never sell them. Like most web services, Tally may log technical details such as your IP address when the form loads; we switch off Tally's optional tracking settings, but that does not stop those logs. Tally's own privacy notice, linked from the form, explains what it records.

Automated decision-making

Audacia does not use automated decision-making that significantly affects your rights or interests — for example, we don't use it to determine pricing, eligibility or access to any service.

Cookies

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Your rights, and how to complain

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by contacting us. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, contact us first — if you're not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@audaciatravel.com.au.

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