Free Cookie Policy Generator for WordPress Site — Australian Privacy Act Compliant

🇦🇺 Key Australian Privacy Act Requirements

Australia's Privacy Act 1988 and its 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) regulate how organizations with annual turnover over AUD $3 million collect, use, and disclose personal information. The OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner) enforces the law and can issue fines up to AUD $50 million for serious and repeated breaches.

• Notify individuals about data collection at or before the time of collection
• Only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary
• Provide individuals with access to their personal information
• Take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse or unauthorized access
• Notify the OAIC and affected individuals of eligible data breaches (Notifiable Data Breaches scheme)
• Cross-border disclosure requires that overseas recipients comply with the APPs

WordPress Site — Specific Considerations

WordPress sites collect data through comments, contact forms, analytics plugins, and e-commerce plugins like WooCommerce. WordPress itself stores commenter IP addresses by default. The vast plugin ecosystem means data collection can vary dramatically — each plugin may set cookies, collect user data, or send data to third-party services. Your privacy policy must reflect the actual plugins installed on your site.

Data typically collected by WordPress Site businesses: commenter name, email and IP address, contact form submissions, analytics data, WooCommerce customer and order data, login account data, plugin-specific collected data

• WordPress comment system IP address collection
• Contact form plugin data retention (WPForms, Contact Form 7)
• WooCommerce customer and order data
• Analytics plugin disclosure (MonsterInsights, Site Kit)
• Caching and CDN data processing disclosure