Cookie Policy

Basic information

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites can store on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can be used for a range of purposes, including remembering privacy preferences, enabling technical website functions, measuring advertising performance and supporting embedded third-party services.

Similar technologies, such as local storage, scripts, pixels or other device identifiers, may perform related functions. For simplicity, this policy refers to these technologies collectively as cookies where appropriate.

Types of cookies

Cookie categories used on this website

Depending on your privacy choices and the services active on a particular page, this website may use the following categories of cookies or similar technologies.

Necessary cookies

These cookies or storage technologies are required for essential website functions, security or remembering your privacy and consent preferences.

Advertising cookies

Advertising services may use cookies or similar identifiers for functions such as ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, frequency capping and, where permitted, personalisation.

Third-party content

Embedded services such as Google Maps may use cookies, scripts or other technologies when they are loaded or activated.

The exact technologies used may change when website functionality or third-party services are updated.

Your choices

Cookie consent management

We use Complianz to manage cookie and privacy preferences on this website.

When required, non-essential cookies and third-party technologies are not intended to be activated until you have made the relevant choice through the consent banner or cookie settings.

Complianz may use necessary cookies or browser storage to remember your privacy choices and consent status.

You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie settings available on this website.

Changing your preferences applies to future use of optional technologies. It does not affect processing that lawfully took place before your preference was changed.

Advertising

Google AdSense cookies

This website uses Google AdSense to display advertisements.

Google and participating advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to provide advertisements, measure advertising performance, prevent fraud and abuse, limit how frequently advertisements are shown and perform other advertising-related functions.

Depending on your location, privacy settings and consent choices, Google may provide personalised or non-personalised advertising.

Personalised advertising may use previously collected information about interests, website or app activity, approximate location or other advertising signals to influence which advertisements are displayed.

Non-personalised advertising does not use previous user behaviour to select advertisements. However, cookies or similar technologies may still be used for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated advertising reporting and fraud prevention.

Where consent is required, advertising technologies should only be activated in accordance with the choices you make through the website’s consent system.

Further information about Google’s advertising technologies is available through
Google’s advertising information
and
Google Ads Settings.

Embedded maps

Google Maps

Some embassy and consulate pages contain embedded Google Maps to help visitors identify the location of a diplomatic or consular mission.

When a Google Map is loaded, Google may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser information, device information and information about the webpage containing the map.

Google Maps may also use cookies, scripts or similar storage technologies.

Where consent is required, the embedded map should remain blocked until you allow the relevant service or category through the website’s consent settings.

If you activate Google Maps, the processing of information by Google is also subject to Google’s own terms and privacy practices.

Further information is available in the
Google Privacy Policy.

External providers

Third-party cookies and services

Some cookies and similar technologies may be placed or accessed by third-party service providers rather than directly by embassies-consulates-australia.com.

At present, relevant third-party services may include Google services used for advertising and embedded maps.

These providers determine aspects of how their own technologies operate and may change cookie names, purposes or storage periods over time.

For this reason, the current cookie information displayed by the website’s consent-management system should be treated as the most up-to-date technical overview of the cookies and services detected on the website.

Control your preferences

How to manage or delete cookies

You can manage optional cookies through the cookie settings provided on this website.

You can also use your browser settings to delete existing cookies, block cookies or receive a warning before cookies are stored.

The exact procedure depends on the browser and device you use.

Please note that blocking necessary cookies or browser storage may prevent some website features or privacy-preference functions from working correctly.

Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main editorial content of embassies-consulates-australia.com, although embedded third-party content such as maps may remain unavailable until you choose to activate it.

Storage periods

How long do cookies remain on your device?

Cookies may be either session cookies, which normally expire when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the provider responsible for it.

Because third-party services may update their technologies, cookie names and storage periods can change. Current technical information about detected cookies and available storage periods is provided through the website’s consent-management system where available.

Policy updates

Changes to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated when we change the services used on the website, when third-party providers modify their technologies or when legal requirements change.

The version published on this page is the current policy applicable to the website.

Questions

Contact

If you have questions about the use of cookies or similar technologies on this website, you can contact the website operator.

For broader information about how personal data is processed, please see our
Privacy Policy.