Our Privacy Statement

Nothing on the Internet is truly private or it wouldn't work. Computers need to know stuff to help you find the stuff you want.

Like most sites we use our web server logs to gauge how many visits and visitors there are. We can tell what country you are from, what the IP address of your computer is and information about what your browser is, what size screen you have and if you have software installed like the Flash plug-in. We can see what pages you have read and where you went on the site. If you've downloaded a file or a PDF or movie etc. we can tell which one.

We're using that information to help us tell what bits of the site people like (and just because we're naturally curious).  Nothing beats an email from you telling us what you like or don't like about the site. Reading a personal note is heaps better than looking at IP numbers every time.

We don't set cookies but we might sometimes use popup windows to display a photographic slide show or a video that you've requested on the page. We'll tell you when we do, so if your browser squawks you can allow the content. We don't do pop-up ads.

We don't know who you are unless you tell us by subscribing or sending us an email with those details. If we publish those email addresses, say in your Farmer's Markets listing, it is presumed that this is what you want so that people can contact you. Don't include it if you don't want it online.

Otherwise we don't share your email address with anybody, and the idea of sharing your personal details with someone else without your permission, is so downright un-neighbourly we'd never consider it. Promise.

If you think we're abusing the relationship (which would be hard because it's pretty simple, we're showing you our content and you're reading it for free) you have full privacy protection and it's all laid out at privacy.gov.au.

Fred Harden. Regional Food.