This Cookie Policy explains how Regional Development Australia Ipswich & West Moreton Inc (RDA Ipswich & West Moreton) uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
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Please read this policy together with our Privacy Statement, which explains how we handle personal information and how to raise a privacy concern.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored by your web browser when you visit a website. They can help a website maintain a session, recognise a returning browser and understand how its pages are used. Similar technologies, such as scripts and embedded content, can also transmit information about your visit.
Session cookies generally last until you close your browser, although browser session restoration may retain them. Persistent cookies remain until they expire or you delete them. First-party cookies are stored for the website you are visiting; third-party cookies are associated with another provider, such as an embedded social media service.
Cookies and services used on this website
Essential session cookies
Our website uses a session cookie when you access features that need to maintain a secure session, including the newsletter subscription form and administrator sign-in. It connects your browser to a server-side session so that we can validate form submissions and maintain an authorised administrator’s sign-in.
This cookie is normally named PHPSESSID, although the hosting configuration may change its name. It is a session cookie rather than a deliberately long-lived preference cookie. Blocking it may prevent forms or administrator access from working correctly.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 on the public pages of rdaiwm.org.au to understand website use and improve our information and services. It can collect information about pages viewed, interactions, referring websites and your browser and device.
Google Analytics uses first-party cookies, typically _ga to distinguish browsers and _ga_VJY46S3JH5 to maintain session information. Google documents a default lifetime of two years for these cookies; expiry can be renewed on subsequent visits. Actual storage periods may vary with Analytics settings and browser restrictions.
For further details, see Google’s guidance on Analytics cookies and Google’s Privacy Policy.
Facebook Page Plugin
Our page headers include a Facebook Page Plugin provided by Meta. When the widget loads, your browser connects to Facebook and shares technical information such as your IP address and browser details. This connection can occur without you clicking the widget.
Meta may read or place cookies for purposes such as security, personalisation, measurement and advertising. The cookies used and how long they last depend on Meta’s service, whether you are signed in to Facebook, and your account and browser settings. Meta controls these cookies.
See Meta’s Cookies Policy and Meta’s Privacy Policy for details and available controls.
Managing cookies and your choices
You can use your browser’s privacy or security settings to view and delete stored cookies, block cookies for particular websites, or restrict third-party cookies. Your browser’s help menu explains the available options. Apply your preferences separately on each browser and device you use.
- Google Analytics: you can use Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on in supported desktop browsers. Browser privacy controls or content blockers may also help restrict analytics.
- Facebook: review the controls described in Meta’s Cookies Policy and your Facebook account settings. Blocking third-party cookies may limit cookie use; blocking embedded Facebook content can prevent the widget from loading.
- Essential cookies: blocking all cookies may prevent you from submitting the newsletter form or signing in to the administration area.
The website does not currently provide an on-site cookie preference panel. Google Analytics and the Facebook widget are configured to load automatically on public production pages, subject to your browser settings and any blocking tools. Deleting cookies alone does not prevent them from being set again on a later visit, and blocking cookies does not necessarily stop all information being transmitted to an external service.
Third-party websites
If you follow a link to another website, its operator may use its own cookies and tracking technologies. Please review that website’s policies and controls. Google and Meta may process information outside Australia as described in their privacy policies.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as our website, service providers or practices change. The date above identifies the most recent update.
Contact us
For questions about cookies or privacy on this website, please contact RDA Ipswich & West Moreton:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0429 159 308
Post: 67 Ellenborough Street, Ipswich QLD 4305