House on FireWho we are?
houseonfire.oldertenants.org.au is a project of Housing for the Aged Action Group. HAAG works with older people through community activism, services & advocacy to achieve social change and housing justice.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it?
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Signing up
For users that register on our website, we store personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your information at any time (except you cannot change your username). HAAG’s website administrators can also see and edit your information.
In order to create your user avatar, an anonymized string created from your email address is provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After signing up, your profile picture and name is visible to the public.
Logging in
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.
For convenience we also allow you to log in using Facebook or Google’s authentication. If you use the Facebook login you are also sharing your information with Facebook and accept their Terms of Service. If you use Google’s login you are sharing your information with Google and accept their Terms of Service.
Topics, Replies and Comments
When visitors create topics, replies or comments on the site we collect the data shown in the forms, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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.
Visitor topics, replies and comments are checked through Akismet’s automated spam detection service. Akismet’s privacy policy is available here.
If you create a topic, reply or comment, that content 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.
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.
Webinars
Webinars hosted by this site make use of the Zoom videoconferencing technology. If you choose to participate in a webinar you are also subject to Zoom’s privacy policy.
Analytics
In order to know how many people are using our website, as well as to secure our site from potential threats, we collect information about you including your IP address, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, time, browser language, and country code.
Our site is protected by Wordfence real-time security network. Malicious visitors, or users flagged as robots by Wordfence will have this information shared with Defiant Inc for the purpose of protecting the site from potential attackers.
Logs are also retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of knowing how many visitors we receive on our site the site.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have created topics, replies, or comments, you can request to receive a copy of all data we hold about you. 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.
To ask that we provide or delete your data, please use this form.