Who we are

Our website address is: https://gbrinvestigations.com.au.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Software to improve security and usability

The software we use to improve website security and usability
TraceMyIP (tracemyip.org) is website visitor statistics software that allows web publishers to analyze the usability of their website, maintain functional security of their website’s hosting environment, and understand how their website is utilized by their visitors.

Some of the information that TraceMyIP allows web publishers to collect is:

Visitor IP address. Th IP information analysis depends on how the user configures TraceMyIP. If a website is subject to GDPR regulations, the IP format will hide the ending bits of the IP address. However, it is worth noting, that even though an IP address might be visible to a website owner (if configured), it does not identify a visitor identity. It merely allows webmasters to see an anonymous visitor activity which provides additional security measures by allowing webmasters to analyze any back-end abuse and take appropriate measures accordingly.

Date and time. Each website page load is logged and assigned a date and time if later analysis if required.

Browser and OS brand and version. Each pageload is assigned this information to understand a website’s compatibility with specific browsers and to better tailor website usability for the most utilized operating systems and browsers.

Landing and referring page data. When a visitor comes from an external website, referrer information is collected for the web publishers to understand which sources of the traffic are most usable. Landing page data indicates which pages are most popular and referred to from external sources of website visitor traffic.

Visitor recurrence. TraceMyIP places a functional cookie in the visitors’ browsers in order to count new visitors, repeating visitors, and unique visits. The cookies are also used to identify repeat visits but these do not identify an actual person but rather generate machine-level statistics.

Search engines. When the website visits referrer information indicates a search engine referral, identifies the search engine and if possible the keywords used.

Advertising campaign data. If the website utilizes online advertising tools, TraceMyIP can capture some of the advertising information for statistical analysis.

Geographic visitor location data. Each IP address has an assignment of an approximate geographic location. TraceMyIP retrieves this information that can identify an approximate location of a connecting network. The geographical information captured allows website owners to utilize this data to modify their website services to provide more usability to specific geographical regions or to analyze whether their online presence or advertising campaigns perform as expected. The GEO information cannot be used to identify the precise location of website visitors.

More service function and legal information can be obtained by accessing TraceMyIP privacy policy at https://www.tracemyip.org/privacy.htm and terms of service at https://www.tracemyip.org/tos.htm