Privacy Policy

This policy covers simplecalendar.com.au, operated by the Simple Calendar team. You can browse dates and use our planning tools without creating an account or providing payment details.

Some information is needed to deliver the website, remember your preferences and respond when you contact us. Optional services also help us understand site usage and support the site through advertising. This page explains those different uses.

The contact form collects your name, email address, selected topic and message. We use these details to respond to your enquiry, investigate reported errors and manage the conversation. Emailing us directly also shares your email address and the information you include.

Form messages are delivered to our team through Resend. Cloudflare Turnstile checks submissions for automated abuse and receives technical information, including your IP address. We also temporarily use IP addresses to limit repeated requests. These checks help protect the form from spam.

Please include only the information needed for your enquiry. Passwords, payment details and sensitive personal records are not needed to report a calendar error.

Your browser remembers a few choices so you do not need to make them on every visit:

• State or territory: saved in local storage and a preference cookie. The cookie lasts up to one year from when you set it and is sent with requests to this site.
• Planning year: saved in session storage for the current browser tab.
• Saved guides: bookmarked guide identifiers stay in local storage in that browser. They are not linked to an account or synced by us across devices.
• Appearance: your light or dark theme preference is remembered in your browser.

Local storage generally stays until you clear it or your browser removes it. Change your state in the header, remove bookmarks on the Guides page, or clear this site’s cookies and storage in your browser settings to reset saved choices.

If you have not saved a state, we use approximate country and state information supplied by Cloudflare or Vercel from your internet connection to suggest one. Our state suggestion does not request GPS access or precise coordinates, and it is not stored as your saved preference. An explicit state choice takes priority.

Our interactive date, working-day and leave calculations run in your browser. Some tools can put your chosen dates and options in a shareable link. Anyone you give that link to can read those values; URLs can also appear in browser history and website request logs.

Downloaded calendars and printouts are handled by your device. If you subscribe through another calendar service, that provider receives the feed address and handles the subscription under its own privacy policy.

When enabled, Google Analytics measures page visits and broad actions such as starting a tool, generating a plan, using search, choosing a download or submitting the contact form. Google Analytics uses cookies and processes technical and usage information.

Our own analytics events use fixed categories, such as the tool used or an error type. They are designed to exclude contact-message contents, entered dates, leave balances, calculation results and raw search text. The page information we send through this analytics setup is grouped by section and excludes URL query strings.

These limits apply to our Google Analytics event setup, rather than every request made by your browser. Hosting, advertising and other providers may receive page URLs, IP addresses and other technical information when delivering their services.

When enabled, Cloudflare Web Analytics measures traffic and page performance. Cloudflare describes this service as using no analytics cookies or local storage. Read more about Cloudflare Web Analytics and how Google uses information from partner sites.

When advertising is enabled, we use Google AdSense to help support the site. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver and measure ads, prevent fraud and personalise advertising based on visits to this and other websites.

You can manage personalisation through Google My Ad Center and control cookies through your browser. Turning off personalised ads does not necessarily stop all advertising or the information processing needed to deliver and measure it. See Google’s advertising policy for details.

To limit Google Analytics in supported browsers, Google offers an Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Blocking cookies or scripts can affect saved preferences, verification and other site features.

We use service providers to run the website and deliver the features described above. They may process information on servers outside Australia, including in the United States. Their privacy information explains their own processing and safeguards:

• Vercel hosts the website and processes requests and operational logs.
• Cloudflare provides services including traffic protection, approximate location information, form verification and web analytics.
• Google provides analytics and advertising when enabled.
• Resend delivers contact-form emails. Its data processing terms describe primary processing operations in the United States.

External links, advertisements and calendar apps take you to services with their own privacy practices. Review those practices before providing information to them.

Contact messages and replies may remain in our email correspondence and our providers’ delivery records. Clearing your browser data does not delete a message you have already sent. Provider logs and analytics records have retention settings and policies separate from your browser’s saved preferences.

Our contact form uses encrypted connections, server-side validation and abuse checks. No online service can guarantee absolute security. To ask about information associated with an enquiry or request its deletion, contact us using the details below.

For a privacy question, complaint, or request to access, correct or delete information you have sent us, use our contact page or email [email protected]. Describe your request and, where relevant, the email address used for your earlier enquiry. We may need to verify the request before releasing or changing personal information.

If a concern remains unresolved, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner explains privacy complaint options and which matters it can consider.

We will update this page when our practices change. The date above identifies the most recent revision.