Effective Date: 1st July, 2026
1. What Data We Collect
We may collect:
- IP addresses and usage data (e.g., browser type, pages visited) to operate and improve our site. IP addresses may be personal information if linked to an individual.
- Embedded content (e.g., videos, images) from third-party sites, which may collect data, use cookies, or track you. See their privacy policies for details.
- Security and abuse-prevention logs.
When you access our website, we automatically collect technical
information including IP address, date and time of access, pages and files
requested, HTTP status codes, referrer URL, browser/user-agent
string, and similar data in server, hosting, and security (e.g. firewall/WAF)
logs. This may include attempts to access administrative paths, bulk-download content, or otherwise interact with the site in ways that suggest
automated, unauthorised, or abusive use.
2. Why We Collect Your Data
To provide, maintain, and improve our website, analyze usage, and ensure security.
- To detect, prevent, and investigate unauthorised, abusive, or malicious use of the website (including automated scraping, bulk downloading, probing, and coordinated access patterns)
- To protect the security, integrity, and availability of the website and our systems
- To identify and report abusive activity to relevant internet service providers, hosting providers, and security services (including abuse contacts)
- To cooperate with law enforcement and regulators where appropriate, including voluntary reports of cybercrime or security incidents
- To establish, exercise, or defend legal rights where necessary
3. Who We Share Your Data With
We share data only:
- With Australian authorities if required by law (e.g., court order).
- With service providers processing data on our behalf, under strict privacy agreements.
- If data goes overseas, we ensure compliance with Australian privacy laws where possible.
- To hosting, CDN, firewall, and security providers that process data on our behalf to operate and protect the site
- To internet service providers and hosting providers when reporting abuse of our systems or network (e.g. via abuse@ contacts)
- To Australian law enforcement, regulators, or cybercrime reporting channels (e.g. ReportCyber) where we reasonably believe disclosure is appropriate
- To our legal advisers in connection with investigating or responding to abuse, or establishing or defending legal rights
- Where required or authorised by law
Where we detect serious or repeated abusive access, we may take technical measures (such as blocking or redirecting identified addresses) and retain related logs as evidence.
4. How Long We Retain Your Data
We generally retain security and access logs for at least 12 months. Where we are investigating abuse, preparing an abuse report, or involved in a legal or regulatory matter, we may retain relevant logs for longer until the matter is resolved or we are no longer required to keep them.
5. Your Rights and How to Contact Us
You can request access to or correction of your data or complain about our practices. Contact:
WST
Email: women@womenspeaktas.au
6. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your data from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access.
7. Misuse of website
Unauthorised or abusive use. Automated bulk access, scraping, security probing, and other misuse of the website may be logged and investigated. We may report such activity to service providers and authorities and take technical or legal steps to protect the site.
https://www.cyber.gov.au/report-and-recover/report
This notice applies to anyone who accesses, automates access to, or interferes with womenspeaktas.au (operated by Women Speak Tasmania). It is provided for transparency and deterrence. It is general information only, not legal advice, and does not mean we accuse any particular visitor of an offence.
We log access to this website, including IP addresses, timestamps, pages and files requested, referrer URLs, browser/user-agent data, and security events. Where we detect automated bulk access, scraping, security probing, ban evasion, or coordinated abusive activity, we may investigate logs, block access, report activity to internet service providers and hosting providers, refer matters to Australian law enforcement or cybercrime reporting channels (such as ReportCyber), and take civil legal action.
Depending on the conduct, scale, intent, and other circumstances, such activity may fall under one or more of the following (non-exhaustive list):
Commonwealth criminal law (Australia)
- Unauthorised access to data, Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), including unauthorised access to restricted data (e.g. s 478.1) and related computer offences (Part 10.7).
- Unauthorised modification or impairment of data or electronic communications, where access or traffic is unauthorised and causes or is intended to cause harm to systems or communications.
- Use of a carriage service to menace, or harass, Criminal Code (Cth) s 474.17, where repeated or coordinated online conduct is intended to harass, menace, or cause offence.
- Use of a carriage service to make a threat, where communications amount to threats.
- Conspiracy to commit offences, where two or more persons agree to engage in unlawful conduct.
- Fraud or deception offences, where access is obtained by deception, including misrepresenting identity or intent to evade security controls.
- Copyright offences, Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), including serious copyright infringement in some circumstances, and offences relating to circumvention of technological protection measures (access controls) where applicable.
State and territory law
- Stalking, harassment, or related offences, under applicable state or territory criminal law (including Tasmania), where conduct is repeated and intended to intimidate or cause fear or harm.
- Other summary or indictable offences, depending on conduct and jurisdiction.
Civil liability
Persons who misuse this website may also be liable under civil law, including for:
- Unauthorised use of our systems (including trespass to goods or chattels and related wrongs involving unauthorised use of computers or servers).
- Private nuisance, unreasonable interference with our use of our systems or operations.
- Unlawful interference with our lawful interests, including intentional harm to our organisation using unlawful means.
- Breach of our website terms of use, including prohibitions on automated access, scraping, and circumventing security measures.
- Copyright infringement, including reproduction or communication of copyright material and circumvention of access controls under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
- Injunctions and other court orders, to restrain further access or compel identification through lawful court processes (including orders against service providers where available).
- Anti-discrimination or related complaints, where conduct amounts to unlawful discrimination, harassment, or vilification under applicable law (including Tasmanian law), in addition to other remedies.
Regulatory pathways
Serious cyber abuse or targeted online harassment may also be referred to relevant regulatory bodies (such as the eSafety Commissioner) where applicable.
Our response
We treat security logs as personal information where they may identify an individual. We handle them in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Australian privacy law. We may:
- block or redirect identified addresses;
- preserve evidence for investigation;
- report abuse to ISPs and hosts under acceptable-use and abuse policies;
- refer matters to authorities where appropriate;
- seek legal advice and pursue civil remedies.
Do not use this website for automated bulk access, scraping, security testing without our written permission, or any attempt to evade blocks or security controls. If you believe you have been blocked in error, contact women@womenspeaktas.au.
This notice does not create a contract and does not waive any of our legal rights.