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Use of cookies

Tourism Australia and our third-party partners, such as our advertising and analytics partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g. pixels) to provide functionality and to recognize you across different Services and devices. For more information, please see our Terms of Use, which includes information on how to control or opt out of these cookies and tracking technologies. Some Tourism Australia webpages use cookies which are small files that may be placed on your hard disk for recordkeeping purposes. A cookie helps Tourism Australia remember who you are and can make your subsequent visits to the webpage simpler and more seamless. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. However, by not accepting cookies, some webpages may not display properly or you may not be permitted to access certain information. Cookies are important for Tourism Australia websites and are used to provide the best possible online experience. By continuing to use the websites you are consenting to their use.

How the information will be used
We will use the information for the purpose of facilitating use of the website, processing transactions and storing a user's interface preferences.

Essential cookies
Site cookies are essential to use this site.
Without cookies, basic search and browsing functions will not work correctly and the site cannot be used to place orders, retrieve previous transactions or save assets. Cookies enable us to identify the information a user has consented to provide and help us determine what portions of the service are most appropriate for the user's needs. Cookies are necessary for us to meet our obligations to provide each user access to their own personal information.

Disabling cookies
A user may delete or disable the use of cookies, at any time, via browser settings.
Lookatme cookies are essential to the functioning of Lookatme sites and deleting or disabling Lookatme cookies will reduce functionality in the site.

Consent to the use of cookies
When a user first registers to use the site, the user is asked for permission to use cookies as part of the pop-up Permission Request. At that point, the user can decline the request and cancel the registration submission. A registered user may also deregister their account at any time.

Site Cookies
i18nextLng: Stores the user’s locale information.
rft: Contains the user’s JWT refresh token
act: Contains the user’s JWT refresh token
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paletteMode: Holds cosmetic information

Third-party cookies

Lookatme site operators may request third-party systems such as Google Analytics to use cookies on Lookatme sites for the purpose of site analytics. This may allow the third party system to collect information about use of the site, which they may store in a country other than that where the site is operated. If a user does not want personal site usage information to be accessed by Google Analytics, the user can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera at the Google Analytics opt-out site.

Where Google Analytics is enabled, the gtag.js library sets the following cookies:

_ga – Default expiration 2 years; used to distinguish users
ga – Default expiration 2 years; used to persist session state

Third-party Cookies from SmartFrame are used:

SF_TRACKING_STM: To attribute most recent data about the origin of the user. Measuring SmartFrame viewing time.
SF_TRACKING_UTM: To attribute original data about the user. Provide information about where a visitor comes from.
SF_TR_SESSION: The cookie is used to store and identify a user’s unique session ID for the purpose of managing the user session on the website.

 
 
 
 

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Owners of the land, sea and waters of the Australian continent, and recognise their custodianship of culture and Country for over 60,000 years

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