Privacy

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Your answers and place choice stay in this tab’s browser storage while you use the quiz. If you turn on “Save on this device”, a copy stays in this browser for your next visit. These copies are separate from anonymous counts. They are not an account or tracking ID.

Reset removes Spinder’s saved answers and place choice from this browser. It also resets “Don’t count me”, so turn it on again if you start another quiz and do not want to be counted. Saved quiz data expires when Spinder next opens after Tuesday 1 December 2026 begins. We cannot remotely clear a browser that is not running the site.

If you choose to share an answer-comparison link, it contains encoded answers in the part after #. Anyone with the link can read those answers. This part is read in the recipient’s browser and is not sent to Spinder’s counting service. Think before posting it publicly. Reset cannot remove shared copies.

How we count

We want to understand where people land without connecting a person to their answers. Counting uses three separate kinds of anonymous totals in a database hosted by Cloudflare.

1. Where you landed. At your matches, your browser can send a summary with the release and deck version, day-only date, upper house region if certain, lower house district only if confirmed, up to three party matches in coarse score bands, and number of cards answered excluding skips. It contains no individual card answers. Matching combinations add to a running total.
2. Card tallies. Separately, the browser can send answers or skips, strong flags, release and deck version, and region at most. Each card adds to a separate total. Spinder does not save your set of answers in the database or join card tallies to a landing record.
3. Site counters. Basic events, such as finishing a quiz, add to daily totals. They contain no answers, party matches, postcode, district or region.

The results notice has a one-tap “Don’t count me” switch. Counting waits before sending a landing summary and sends card tallies separately. Turn the switch on at your results, in the menu or on this page to cancel queued counts and stop further counting while it is on. With saving off, the choice applies to this tab. With saving on, it also applies on your next visit in this browser until Reset.

Application counting records exclude IP addresses, user agents, cookies, device and session IDs, referrers, share fragments, postcodes and exact times. They contain no per-person answer history. This describes Spinder’s counting records, not all information processed by the hosting provider.

Already-sent totals cannot be traced back to you and individually removed. There are no public counters at launch. The totals describe people who used Spinder and left counting on; they are not a poll or election prediction. We do not sell political profiles or use quiz answers for targeted advertising.

Cloudflare hosting

Cloudflare hosts Spinder and its counting database. Delivering the site and processing requests exposes connection information to Cloudflare, including IP addresses and request information. Cloudflare may process operational and security records under its own service arrangements. Browser scoring and anonymous application totals do not make your connection invisible or mean that the hosting provider keeps no operational records.

How long we keep counts

Counting stops at 6 pm on Saturday 28 November 2026. The anonymous aggregate counts are retained for educational purposes. DJ Johnson will review their retention on Tuesday 30 November 2027. This is a review date, not a promise that all copies are deleted on that date.

Candidate photos

Photos identify candidates; they do not imply endorsement. Each photo comes from a page naming that candidate. We credit its source and any known photographer, with licence details where available. Public availability is not a licence. We do not allow AI-generated or AI-edited faces. Portraits load from Spinder’s own origin rather than from party, news or social media sites.

Every candidate has the same template, with a same-size initials fallback when there is no approved photo. Photos do not affect matching, ordering or prominence. Only exact photos approved by Dan appear publicly.

For a wrong face, rights concern or removal request, email help@spinder.musing.au with the candidate and page URL. Please do not send quiz answers. We hide disputed photos while checking and remove them from the live site within 24 hours of receiving a report. We cannot recall screenshots or copies held by others, and processed images may remain in Git history.

Candidate uploads are closed

Candidate photo uploads are closed. We are not accepting submissions through the site. You can still request a correction or removal at help@spinder.musing.au. If uploads open later, we will first explain the collection, authority checks, consent and deletion arrangements.

Questions and corrections

For privacy questions, access or correction requests, complaints or photo removals, email help@spinder.musing.au or see the corrections page. Send only what is needed to check the issue, never your quiz answers. Correspondence is separate from anonymous counting totals; we cannot identify your contribution within those totals.