Privacy Policy

Last updated 31 July 2026. Operated by Colin James Medley, ABN 70 545 298 533. Contact: hello@searchandfindthegold.fun

The short version. There are no accounts. We do not ask who you are. Your phone’s location is used on your device to centre the map and is not stored against you. We do not sell anything about you, and we will never sell or disclose where you found gold.

1. What we collect

Coordinates you look up. When you tap the map or use your location, that coordinate is sent to our server so we can query government datasets about it. We cache the result briefly, keyed to the place, not to you.
Ordinary server logs. IP address, time, and which page or endpoint was requested. This is how the service is kept running and abuse is spotted.
Nothing else. No account, no name, no email, no advertising identifiers, no third-party analytics, no tracking pixels.

2. Your location

“Use my location” asks your browser for a position. Your device decides whether to give it, and you can refuse — the app works by tapping the map instead. The coordinate is used to centre the map and to run the same lookup any tap would run. It is not tied to an identity and it is not shared with anyone.

3. Finds you record

The ability to save your own find locations is built but not yet switched on. When it is, these rules apply and are enforced in the database itself, not just in policy:

Every find is private by default.
Sharing requires you to choose a person to share with, and that choice is recorded.
Even a shared find can be blurred to a precision you choose.
We will never sell, publish or disclose your find locations, and we will not use them to build public “productive area” maps.

4. Offline packs

Downloaded packs are stored on your own device. They contain public government data only — nothing about you. Deleting the app or clearing site data removes them.

5. Who we share with

Nobody, for commercial purposes. We query Australian government spatial services to answer your lookups; those requests come from our server, so the government service sees us, not you. We may disclose information where the law requires it.

6. Cultural heritage

This application does not and will not publish the location or description of protected Aboriginal cultural heritage places. Where a government dataset identifies such a place, we deliberately withhold every detail of it and show only a general duty-of-care reminder.

7. How long we keep things

Cached access results: expire automatically, currently within 12 hours.
Server logs: kept only as long as needed to operate and secure the service.

8. Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) you may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or complain about how we have handled it. Email hello@searchandfindthegold.fun. Because there are no accounts, in most cases the honest answer will be that we hold nothing that identifies you. If you are not satisfied with our response you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it.