FluentSea is an Australian AI news publication operated from Melbourne, Victoria. This policy explains what we collect when you use fluentsea.com.au and what we do with it. The short version: we collect as little as we can, we never sell your data, and everything here follows the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
What we collect
Reading the site requires no account and no personal information. Like most websites we use analytics (Google Analytics 4) to understand which stories people read. This involves cookies and anonymised usage data such as pages visited, device type and approximate location. We do not use this to identify you.
Newsletter: if you subscribe, we store your email address for the sole purpose of sending you the newsletter. Every edition includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes your address.
Accounts and comments: if you register, we store the username and email you provide so you can sign in, comment and submit events. We email you only about your account, never marketing, unless you have separately subscribed.
Event submissions: events submitted through our events page display the event details publicly once approved. Contact details included with a submission are used only to clarify the listing.
Third parties
Some articles embed content from other platforms, such as X (Twitter) posts and YouTube videos. Loading those embeds may set cookies from those platforms under their own privacy policies. Our analytics data is processed by Google. We do not sell, rent or trade personal information with anyone.
Security and retention
The site is served over HTTPS and hosted on infrastructure in the European Union with access limited to the publication’s operator. We keep personal information only as long as it serves the purpose you gave it to us for, and we delete account or newsletter data on request.
Your rights
You can ask us at any time what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Contact us through the contact page and we will respond within a reasonable time. If you are not satisfied with our response you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).
Last updated: 19 July 2026.
