During your use of an Austrade website (including austrade.gov.au, brandaustralia.com, exportawards.gov.au, studyaustralia.gov.au, tra.gov.au, globalaustralia.gov.au, and Go Global Toolkit hosted on business.gov.au) we may issue to and request from your device (computer, tablet, mobile phone etc.) blocks of data known as "cookies".
We use cookies to enable the Austrade website to provide more value to users and to provide Austrade with information about your activities on the website.
The cookies used on Austrade websites will not allow Austrade to obtain personal information that will identify you, such as your name and address. Austrade will only capture personal information if you provide it to us directly via a registration process.
We use 2 types of cookies on Austrade websites:
By using an Austrade website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. Your web browser may allow some control over cookies through your browser settings.
Please note that you may delete and block all cookies used by an Austrade website, but if you do so parts of the site may not work.
The Austrade websites use Google Analytics, a service which sends website traffic data to Google servers in the United States and possibly other locations outside of Australia. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate individual IP addresses with any other data held by Google. Austrade uses reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. For more information about this, see Google's Privacy Policy.
The information collected by Google Analytics during each visit is aggregated with similar logged information and published in reports so Austrade can identify patterns of usage by users on Austrade web sites. This assists us in improving the website and the content we provide users on it.
You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse cookies, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google.
The Austrade websites also use interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others. If you choose to "like" or "share" information from our websites through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service. If you are a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your visits to this site with other personal information stored by the social media service provider.
Austrade uses Hotjar on Austrade websites to better understand users’ needs and to refine the websites with the aim of delivering content, services and a user experience that meets those needs.
Hotjar is a technology service that helps Austrade better understand our users’ behaviour whilst visiting an Austrade website (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.). This enables us to utilise user feedback to develop, improve, and maintain our website offering.
Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices (in particular, device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymised form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only) and preferred language used to display our website). Neither Hotjar nor Austrade will use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.
You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our website and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.