Last updated: 5 May 2026.
This page explains what we collect when you use goldendoor.com.au, why we collect it, and what your rights are. We’re a small Australian team and we try to keep this straightforward — if anything below is unclear, email us and we’ll explain it.
Who we are
Golden Door is operated from Australia. The website is goldendoor.com.au. For the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, we’re the entity responsible for handling personal information collected through this site.
What we collect, and why
Comments
If you leave a comment on a post, we collect the name and email address you enter, your comment text, and your IP address and browser user-agent string. The IP/user-agent is for spam detection — comment spam is relentless, and the data lets us tell humans from bots.
An anonymised hash of your email may be sent to the Gravatar service to display an avatar next to your comment. You can read Gravatar’s privacy policy via that link.
Contact form
When you message us through the contact form, we collect whatever you type into it (typically name, email, subject, message). We use that information to reply to you, and only to reply to you. We don’t add you to any marketing lists from contact-form submissions.
Newsletter / email signups
If you subscribe to our mailing list, we collect your email address (and your first name if you give it). We use Mailchimp to send the list. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link at the bottom of any email we send you.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email and website in cookies so you don’t have to retype them next time. These cookies last twelve months. They’re set in your browser, by your browser, and you can clear them whenever you like.
We also set short-lived session cookies if you log in (the site has very few logged-in users — primarily us). The cache plugin and security plugin may set cookies for the same reason: they last only as long as your visit.
Embedded content
Some pages embed videos, recipe widgets or social posts from other services. Those embeds behave like a visit to the original site — they may set their own cookies and collect interaction data. Common ones on this site are YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 (property G-528GYPERJG) to understand which posts people read and how they get here. Analytics is configured with consent-mode-aware defaults. The data is aggregated; we don’t try to identify individual readers from it.
What we don’t do
- We don’t sell your personal information. Ever.
- We don’t share your email with third parties beyond what’s necessary to operate the site (e.g. Mailchimp to send the newsletter you signed up for).
- We don’t store credit card data — there’s nothing to buy here.
- We don’t profile readers for ad-targeting beyond the standard analytics described above.
How long we keep things
Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so follow-up replies still make sense. Contact-form messages are kept until we’ve handled the conversation, then archived. Newsletter subscribers stay on the list until they unsubscribe. Analytics data is retained per Google’s defaults (currently 14 months for event-level data).
Your rights
Under Australian privacy law you have the right to:
- request a copy of any personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct inaccurate information;
- ask us to delete information (where we’re not legally required to keep it);
- complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner if you think we’ve mishandled your data.
To exercise any of those rights, email us via the Contact page. We’ll respond within thirty days.
Security
The site runs on HTTPS with HSTS preload, and we keep WordPress, our plugins and our theme up to date. We use a security plugin (Solid Security) to limit brute-force login attempts and a CDN (Cloudflare) to filter obvious bad traffic. Nothing on the public internet is fully bullet-proof, but we take reasonable steps to protect what’s here.
Changes to this policy
If we change anything material — what we collect, who it goes to, how long we keep it — we’ll update the date at the top of this page and call out the change in a recent post. The most current version will always live at /privacy-policy/.
Questions
If anything on this page is unclear, or you’d like a copy of what we hold about you, the Contact page is the way through. We read everything that comes in there.
