This website does not track you. We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, nor any other service to track or profile users. In fact, we do not use any Google or Facebook products of any kind in the delivery or functionality of this website, as they compromise privacy and enable easy surveillance.

MALS does have access to basic monthly statistics of aggregate website usage as collected and provided by our Internet Service Provider (standard web server data), but MALS does not directly collect nor store this information. See “Website Page Requests” and “Cookies” above.

MALS does not collect nor retain any statistical data whatsoever for the purposes of identifying an individual person, tracking their online behaviour, or monetising the data in any way. We will never sell any data, ever.

If you send MALS an e-mail either using our Contact Form, or write to us directly using an e-mail client of your choosing, you should expect that the following data will be produced:

• the IP address of the device that sent the message;
• the domain name of the device sending the message (using reverse DNS where applicable);
• the Date and Time the message was sent;
• your name, as provided by you;
• the subject of the message, as provided by you;
• your reply e-mail address, as provided by you; and,
• the contents of your message, as provided by you, whether OpenPGP encrypted or sent in plain-text.

Your message will arrive to our e-mail servers containing the above data, just like all other e-mails you send.

Your message will then be checked through an automated spam detection service to determine whether or not it is spam. If your message is deemed acceptable, it will be delivered. If not, it will be marked as spam. Repeat offenders will have their e-mail addresses or IP addresses blocked.

All messages sent to MALS will be securely kept and made accessible to trusted MALS members in order to read, understand, and respond to your message. Because of this, it is likely that your message will be at most kept possibly indefinitely, or at least as long as it is deemed relevant by MALS. This means you should expect the above information may be accessible by MALS for a long time.

All messages sent to MALS e-mail addresses are stored offshore, in a privacy friendly jurisdiction, and not in Australia.

MALS may share your contact details internally, in order to read, respond, and refer to any correspondence, but MALS will not share your contact details outside of our organisation, unless you have directed us to do so, or have given us permission. For example, you’re asking for legal support and we forward your contact information to relevant legal firms so they can correspond with you.

If you would like to protect the content of your message using OpenPGP encryption, please read our guide here. MALS has the ability to accept and respond to OpenPGP encrypted e-mails.

If you’d prefer an anonymous or “quick-burn” method of contacting MALS that is also encrypted, you could opt to send us a message using Session Chat. Please check our Contact Us page for our current Session Chat ID to connect to us securely.

If you sign up to one of our e-mail lists or make a donation to MALS and provide your e-mail address, you’ll receive e-mail announcements from MALS from time to time.

The data that is collected by MALS is your e-mail address, as provided by you. It is kept recorded for the duration of your membership of a list, in order to send you announcements, news, and updates. If you wish to unsubscribe from any e-mail announcements by MALS, you can do so at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any Newsletter note we send. The unsubscribe link contains a code that will remove and delete your address immediately.

If your e-mail address is on our media contacts list, it has been added as part of outreach to publicly accessible media organisations and you should only receive our announced media releases or other intermittent journalistic announcements from MALS. If you wish to unsubscribe from any e-mail announcements by MALS, you can do so at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any Newsletter note we send. The unsubscribe link contains a code that will remove and delete your address immediately.

MALS will never sell nor share an e-mail list.

If you make a donation to MALS–thank you!–you should expect the following data to be generated, along with the commensurate common Website Page Request data (as outlined above):

• the Date and Time the donation was made;
• your name, as may be provided by you (or not, if you opted to donate without publishing your name);
• your e-mail address, as provided by you;
• your credit card number or bank account details, as provided by you;
• a postage or e-mail address, as may be provided by you when making a donation in honour or tribute to someone;
• a publicly posted comment, as may be provided by you;
• the donation amount;
• if your donation is a subscription (i.e. it is recurring), at what interval you’ve opted to iterate it (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly);
• multiple browser cookies for Stripe that contain security tokens, and information about the current browser session to protect legitimate transactions, and test for fraudulent ones. These cookies also may store information about the webpage used to make the donation so that Stripe can process the data submitted to it and handle payments to MALS.

Except for browser cookies, the above data may be kept by MALS for a period of up to 7 years, to comply with regulations concerning monetary donations, and also to be accountable about our sources of funding.

If you sign-up to attend one of our training events, workshops, or talks, you should expect the following data to be generated, along with the commensurate common Website Page Request data (as outlined above):

• the Date and Time the RSVP was made;
• your name, as provided by you when booking your ticket(s);
• your e-mail address, as provided by you;
• your credit card number or bank account details, as provided by you while making the payment for your ticket(s);
• multiple browser cookies for Stripe that contain security tokens, and information about the current browser session to protect legitimate transactions, and test for fraudulent ones. These cookies also may store information about the webpage used to make the bookings for the event so that Stripe can process the data submitted to it and handle payments to MALS for tickets.

Except for browser cookies, the above data may be kept by MALS for a period of up to 7 years, to comply with regulations concerning monetary donations, and also to be accountable about our sources of funding.

Some pages on this website may include embedded content such as videos or images from archive.org or other websites, or ‘Tweets,’ or excerpts of other website’s pages.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website too. This means we take care when deciding to embed content from other websites, as this means the external website has access to some of the same website page request data that is generated by your device when you view the page on our website.

External 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. External websites will almost definitely have very differing motivations around data generation and usage than MALS does, so we do our best to take this into consideration when embedding their content into our website.

Our main use of embedded content is likely to be ‘Tweets,’ so if you wish to block Twitter from your browser while accessing our website, you could do so by searching for an appropriate trusted plugin or extension such as NoScript, for example.

MALS does not run any advertising on its website, but strongly recommends the usage of an ad-blocker functionality in your browser when using the Internet generally.