About this policy
This policy describes the current Laurence Deer website. It covers enquiries by email and through the contact form, Cloudflare Turnstile spam protection, Google Analytics and the Google Maps embed. It does not describe client analytics accounts or other systems used during a separately agreed SEO engagement.
Information on this website
When you email us or use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, website if you add it, and the information you choose to include. We use this information to respond to your enquiry and discuss the services you request. Form messages are sent to us by email and handled through our email provider. Please do not send passwords or sensitive account credentials.
To limit spam, the contact form keeps a one-way code made from your IP address for up to one hour, so it can count how many messages are sent from the same connection. The code cannot be turned back into your IP address and is deleted automatically.
The website uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use it (see below). It does not include advertising pixels, a newsletter subscription or an online payment service. Fonts and website images are served with the site. Technical requests are still necessary to deliver pages, and infrastructure may process connection details such as IP addresses, requested URLs and request times.
Spam protection (Cloudflare Turnstile)
The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check that messages come from people rather than automated programs. When the Contact page loads, your browser connects to Cloudflare, which may process your IP address, browser and device information and how you interact with the page. Cloudflare handles this information under its own privacy policy, and it may be processed outside Australia.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and use this website, such as which pages are viewed, roughly where visitors are located (city or region), the type of device and browser, how visitors arrived (for example from a search engine) and whether the contact form was sent. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies (named _ga and similar) to recognise a returning browser. It does not tell us who you are, and we do not send your name, email address or form message to Google Analytics.
We use this information in aggregate to improve the website. Google processes it under its own terms and may process it outside Australia. Data is kept for the period set in our Google Analytics settings. We have turned off optional data sharing with Google for its own products and services.
You can block Google Analytics with your browser settings or with Google's opt-out browser add-on.
Google Analytics opt-out add-on
How Google uses information from sites that use its services
Google Maps and cookies
The Contact page includes Google Maps. When the map loads, your browser connects to Google. Google may process your IP address, browser information and activity, and use cookies or other storage under its own policies and your settings. The map does not require you to enter your location into our website.
Apart from the Google Analytics cookies described above, Laurence Deer has not added tracking cookies. Third-party embeds such as the map may set their own. You can manage cookies through your browser and Google account settings. Blocking third-party services may prevent the map from appearing; the written address remains available.
External websites
Article sources and Google Maps links take you to services operated by others. Their privacy practices apply when you visit them. Google may process information outside Australia; its policy explains its international processing practices.
Questions and requests
For a privacy question, request to access or correct information, or complaint, use the contact details below. Describe your concern and the information involved, without sending passwords or sensitive account credentials.
If you remain concerned about privacy handling, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner explains the available complaint options and when the Privacy Act applies.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when the way we handle information changes. The date on this page identifies the current version.
Contact details
Laurence Deer is operated by Agents Digital Agency Pty Ltd.
Contact: Laurence Deer
ACN 692 880 041
ABN 42 692 880 041
435 Nepean Highway, Frankston VIC 3199, Australia