Privacy and sharing
This service is operated by Australian Visa Tracker.
For questions or complaints, contact us at contact@ausvisatimeline.com.
Your email address and password hash are used to operate your account. When creating a timeline, you choose whether to keep it private or share it anonymously. You can change sharing separately for every timeline.
Google sign-in
If you choose to sign in with Google or connect a Google Account, we use your Google account identifier and verified email address to sign you in. We store the linked identifier with your account and discard Google tokens after sign-in.
What a shared timeline contains
Shared records show a random public ID, visa subclass, stream, broad application location and selected application attributes if provided, dated milestones, reported outcome and update date. Approved notes may appear on shared timelines. Keep names, contact details, reference numbers and documents out of your notes. Public visitors can copy what you share.
Your controls
You can make a timeline private or delete it from its detail page. Download your timeline, or use account settings to download all of your application data, turn off optional email updates or delete your account. Unsharing removes the timeline from the explorer and community analytics.
Use Edit details and sharing on a timeline to correct its details. Contact the operator about other access or correction requests.
Service providers and retention
- Email delivery · Amazon SES — Handles account emails and optional updates.
- Application hosting · Amazon Lightsail — Hosts the site and its database.
- Backup storage · Amazon Lightsail Object Storage — Stores encrypted database backups.
Active account data is kept until you delete it. Deleted data can remain in backups for up to 30 days.
Email and advertising
We use an email delivery provider for account verification, recovery and any updates you enable. When configured, public pages may offer consent controls for non-personalized display ads. Ads are restricted to eligible public pages. Individual account and visa application data are never supplied as advertising parameters.
Community reports
Use the reporting control on any shared timeline to flag personal information, spam or misleading entries.