Effective Date: September 2024 • Last Updated: January 2026

I AM Archaeology: Habitat & Heritage (“we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information in a responsible way.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and how you can access or correct your information or make a privacy complaint.

I AM Archaeology: Habitat & Heritage (ABN 56 918 340 310), based in Sydney, NSW, provides heritage consultancy and education services. We offer archaeological site/collection survey and assessment, 3D recording, cultural heritage conservation advice, and school and community educational workshops through a living history and archaeology lens.

We may collect personal information such as:

• name, email address, phone number, organisation and role

• enquiry details and any information you include in messages

• information needed to provide services (e.g., project scope, site/collection details you provide, stakeholder contacts relevant to your project)

• administrative and billing information (e.g., invoicing details, purchase order references)

• website technical data (e.g., IP address, device/browser type, pages visited, approximate location derived from IP).

We collect personal information when you:

• submit our website contact form

• email or call us

• engage us for services or request a quote

• interact with our website (including via cookies and analytics).

We collect and use personal information to:

• respond to enquiries and communicate with you

• provide, manage and improve our services

• manage administration, accounts and record-keeping

• meet legal and regulatory obligations

• protect our website and communications from spam, abuse and security threats.

When you submit an enquiry via our website contact form:

• we use Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent spam and automated submissions

• we store submitted messages in our website database (for example, using Flamingo) so enquiries are not lost if email delivery fails or is misconfigured.

If a school or organisation contacts us about workshops, we may collect information such as:

• school/organisation name, address, contact person and contact details

• year group(s), student numbers per session, session timing and logistics

• invoicing details (including PO/reference numbers)

• relevant onsite safety/logistics information needed to deliver the workshop.

We generally do not require student names or personal medical details for workshop enquiries unless there is a specific and necessary reason to do so.

We may disclose personal information to trusted service providers who help us operate our business and website, such as:

• website hosting and IT support providers

• email and communications providers

• professional advisers (e.g., accounting) where necessary

• contractors engaged to support delivery of services where relevant.

We do not sell personal information.

We take reasonable steps to ensure the security of your personal information. This includes physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, or disclosure.

Some information may be stored with reputable cloud providers that host data in Australia or overseas (e.g., the United States or the EU). Where information is stored or processed outside Australia, we take reasonable steps to ensure it is protected in a way that is substantially similar to the Australian Privacy Principles.

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to help the site function, understand how visitors use the site, and improve user experience. You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling cookies may affect some website functionality.

We may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website (e.g., pages visited, time on page, navigation paths, device/browser information, and general location derived from IP). Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and process usage information.

Google requires website operators using Google Analytics to disclose the use of Google Analytics and how it collects and processes data, including the use of cookies/identifiers.
You can opt out by managing cookies in your browser settings, and Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out option.

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

We retain personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless we are required to keep it longer by law.

You can request access to, or correction of, personal information we hold about you by contacting us through our website contact form. We will respond within a reasonable timeframe.

If you have a privacy concern or complaint, contact us through our website contact form with details. We will investigate and respond.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may be able to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) through the website or by phone: 1300 363 992

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing the updated version on our website marked with the effective date.

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us via the contact form on our website.

You can also contact us via our official business profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram.