Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 May 2026

Find a Financial Planner is operated by Boring Ventures Pty Ltd (ABN 67 671 943 758). This Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

What this site is: Find a Financial Planner is an independent Australian directory. We profile financial planner for research purposes. We do not take enquiries on behalf of providers, do not run a quote or matching service, and do not sell your details to anyone.

1. What we collect

  • Newsletter: if you subscribe, we collect your email address only. You can unsubscribe at any time via a one-click link in every email.
  • Provider corrections: if you email us a correction, claim, or removal request, we keep your message until the issue is resolved.
  • Technical data: IP address, user agent, pages viewed, referrer, session timestamps. Used for site performance, abuse detection and aggregate analytics. Not linked to identity.

We do not collect: phone numbers, postcodes, service requirements, or any "lead" information. There is no enquiry form on this site.

2. How we use it

  • Send newsletter updates when you have opted in
  • Reply to corrections, claims and editorial requests
  • Analyse aggregate site performance and improve our directory
  • Comply with regulator or court requests if legally required

3. Who we share with

We do not share your personal information with any provider, advertiser, or third party for marketing purposes. Our technical service providers, who act as data processors on our behalf, are:

  • Cloudflare (hosting, CDN, DNS) — processes IP address + request metadata for delivery and abuse detection.
  • Resend (transactional email delivery for newsletter) — processes your email address only if you subscribe.
  • Google Analytics 4 + Google Ads (aggregate site performance + conversion measurement) — processes IP-anonymised pageviews, referrers, clicks on phone/email/website links, and form submissions. We do not enable Google Signals or cross-device tracking.
  • Microsoft Clarity (heatmaps + session recordings) — currently disabled on this site pending a consent banner. When enabled in future, recordings will mask inputs by default. Microsoft privacy statement.
  • Meta Pixel (re-engagement measurement) — currently disabled on this site pending a consent banner. Meta privacy policy.

Not every site in our network uses every processor above. Whether a given processor is active on this site depends on whether the relevant environment variable is set at build time. None of these processors receives your name, phone, postcode, or service requirements — we don't collect them.

4. How long we keep it

Newsletter subscribers: until you unsubscribe (then deleted within 30 days). Correction emails: 24 months then deleted. Technical logs: 12 months.

5. Your rights

Under the APPs you can:

  • Access your personal information (email [email protected])
  • Correct inaccurate information
  • Request deletion (subject to legal retention obligations)
  • Unsubscribe from any newsletter (one-click link in every email)
  • Complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au) if we fail to meet our obligations

6. Security

We encrypt all data in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256 database encryption). Access to your data is limited to authorised staff of Boring Ventures Pty Ltd. We notify affected individuals within 72 hours of any notifiable data breach as required under Part IIIC of the Privacy Act.

7. Cookies and analytics

This site sets cookies and similar storage for the following purposes:

  • Strictly necessary — session and security cookies set by Cloudflare. Cannot be disabled without breaking the site.
  • Analytics — Google Analytics 4 first-party cookies (typically _ga, _ga_*) and Microsoft Clarity first-party cookies (_clck, _clsk). IP-anonymised, no cross-device identity.
  • Advertising measurement — Google Ads conversion cookies (_gcl_au) on sites where Google Ads is enabled. We run Google Consent Mode v2 with ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization all defaulted to denied, so cross-device retargeting is off by default. We do not currently run Meta Pixel.

You can opt out by:

We do not currently display a cookie-consent banner because all cookies described above are either strictly necessary or first-party measurement. If you would prefer an explicit consent banner, email [email protected] and we'll enable it for your session.

8. International transfers

Some of our service providers (Cloudflare, Resend, Google) store data outside Australia. By using our site you consent to such transfers. All providers maintain security standards equivalent to Australian law.

9. Changes

We may update this policy. Material changes will be notified by email (if we hold your address) and posted here with an updated "last updated" date.

10. Contact

Privacy questions: [email protected]
Postal: Boring Ventures Pty Ltd, GPO Box, Melbourne VIC 3000
Our Privacy Officer responds within 30 days as required by APP 12.