PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 13 October 2026

Blogticles respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use and protect it, and the choices available to you.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use Blogticles, we may collect information such as:

  • your name and email address
  • business or organisation details
  • author biography, profile information and author image
  • article submissions, uploaded documents, images and related material
  • website or article URLs you provide
  • advertising campaign information and advertising creative
  • contact form enquiries and correspondence
  • billing, invoice and payment-status information
  • technical information such as browser type, device information, IP address and website usage data where collected through hosting, security, analytics or similar services

Please do not submit passwords, payment-card details or other sensitive information through our contact or article submission forms.

2. How We Collect Information

We may collect personal information when you:

  • submit an article for review
  • create or update contributor information
  • request advertising or featured placement
  • contact Blogticles through a website form
  • respond to correspondence from us
  • make or arrange a payment
  • browse or interact with the Blogticles website

We may also receive limited information from service providers that support our website, payments, hosting, security or communications.

3. Why We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • review and manage article submissions
  • prepare and publish approved articles
  • attribute articles to contributors where appropriate
  • communicate with contributors, advertisers and website users
  • review and manage advertising campaigns
  • issue invoices and process or confirm payments
  • respond to enquiries and support requests
  • operate, secure and improve the Blogticles website
  • prevent spam, fraud, misuse and security threats
  • meet legal, accounting and administrative obligations

4. Published Contributor Information

If an article is approved for publication, information intended for public attribution may be displayed on Blogticles.
This may include the contributor name, biography, profile image, website link or other information supplied for publication.

Information that is not intended for publication, such as private contact details or billing information, is not normally displayed publicly.

5. Payments

Blogticles may use third-party payment providers, including Stripe, to issue invoices and process payments.
Payment-card details are generally entered directly into the payment provider’s secure systems and are not intended to be stored by Blogticles.

We may retain payment-related information such as invoice numbers, payment status, amounts, transaction references and billing records for administration, accounting and record-keeping purposes.

6. Service Providers and Disclosure

We may disclose limited personal information to trusted service providers where reasonably necessary to operate Blogticles.
These may include providers involved in:

  • website hosting and infrastructure
  • payment processing
  • email delivery
  • website security and spam prevention
  • analytics and performance monitoring
  • data storage and backups
  • professional services such as accounting, legal or technical support

We do not sell personal information to advertisers.

7. Overseas Service Providers

Some technology and service providers used by Blogticles may store or process information outside Australia.
The location can depend on the provider and its infrastructure and may include countries such as the United States and other jurisdictions where major cloud, email, analytics or payment services operate.

Where practicable, we seek to use reputable providers with appropriate security and privacy practices.

8. Cookies, Analytics and Website Data

Blogticles may use cookies and similar technologies for website functionality, security, analytics, performance measurement and user experience.

These technologies may collect information such as pages visited, browser type, device type, referral source, approximate location derived from network information and interaction with the website.

You can usually control or disable cookies through your browser settings, although some website features may not function correctly if cookies are disabled.

9. Storage and Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Personal information may be stored within our website systems, email systems, cloud services, payment systems and secure backups.
No online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we aim to use reasonable technical and administrative safeguards.

10. Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably required for the purposes for which it was collected, including publishing, administration, accounting, legal, security and record-keeping requirements.

Published articles and contributor attribution may remain available for an extended period as part of the Blogticles article library unless removal is agreed or required.

11. Access and Correction

You may request access to personal information we hold about you or ask us to correct information that is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.

Requests can be made through our Contact page. We may need to verify your identity before providing or changing personal information.

12. Privacy Complaints

If you have a concern about how Blogticles has handled your personal information, please contact us through our Contact page and provide enough information for us to investigate the matter.

We will review privacy complaints and aim to respond within a reasonable period.

13. Third-Party Links

Blogticles articles and advertising may contain links to external websites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites, and you should review their privacy policies before providing personal information.

14. Children

Blogticles is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate permission or another lawful basis.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, legal obligations or information-handling practices change.
The current version will be published on this page together with the date it was last updated.

16. Contacting Blogticles

For privacy enquiries, access or correction requests, or privacy complaints, please use our Contact Blogticles page.