Privacy Policy
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This information site uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand aggregate readership and is supported by advertising from Google AdSense. It has no visitor accounts, forms, payment system, or first-party visitor database.
Information We Collect Directly
We do not operate an account system, contact forms, or a database. We do not ask you to submit names, email addresses, travel plans, payment information, or viewing preferences on the site itself.
Optional Device Location for the Map
The interactive map can ask your browser for device location only after you choose Use my location and approve the browser permission. The returned latitude, longitude, and available altitude are processed in your browser to calculate local eclipse circumstances; the site does not transmit or store those coordinates. You can deny or revoke the permission and enter coordinates manually instead.
Cookies and Analytics (Google Analytics 4)
Every page includes Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-3V9EBD3GN8) via Google's gtag.js, which runs according to your cookie choice (see Your Choices below). With consent, GA4 sets cookies and collects data such as your approximate (IP-derived, anonymised) location, device and browser type, referring page, and the pages you view, so we can understand aggregate traffic. GA4 does not log or store IP addresses. Data is processed by Google, including on servers in the United States. See Google's Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can opt out with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
AI Referral Measurement
When a visit arrives from a recognised AI answer service, the site classifies only the referrer's host into a short source category such as chatgpt, perplexity, claude, gemini, or copilot, and sends that category with the current page path to GA4 as an ai_referral event. It does not send the full referring URL, its query string, an AI conversation, or a prompt. A session-storage flag prevents duplicate events for the same source during that browser session. If referrer or storage access is unavailable, this classification is skipped.
Advertising (Google AdSense)
The site is supported by advertising served by Google AdSense (publisher ID ca-pub-5346411273453850). Ads are not shown on this privacy page, the contact page, the eye-safety and eclipse-glasses pages, or the error page.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (My Ad Center), and you can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info or, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu. Google explains how it uses information from sites that show its ads in How Google uses cookies in advertising.
If you choose not to allow advertising cookies, Google may still show non-personalised ads, which use contextual information such as the page you are reading rather than your browsing history.
Your Choices
On your first visit a banner lets you accept or reject non-essential analytics and advertising cookies, and your choice is remembered on this device. You can change it at any time with the Cookie settings button in every page footer. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland have these cookies switched off by default and are asked through Google's certified consent platform, which follows the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, use the GA4 opt-out add-on above, and manage ad personalisation via Google My Ad Center. None of this affects access to the site's content.
Server Logs
The hosting provider may keep ordinary server logs for security, abuse prevention, diagnostics, caching, and uptime monitoring. Those logs can include IP address, browser type, requested URL, referrer, timestamp, and response status. Australian Eclipse 2028 does not use those logs to build individual profiles or sell visitor data.
External Links
Some pages link to NASA, Timeanddate, EclipseWise, safety resources, and other third-party sites. Those sites have their own privacy practices. Opening an external source may expose your browser to that site's logs, cookies, or analytics, so review their policies if that matters to your use.
Contact
If you contact the site by email, the information you choose to send is used to answer the message, evaluate corrections, or coordinate legitimate project work. Do not email sensitive personal information. Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact page.