At present, the site does not intentionally use advertising cookies or marketing pixels. No cookie consent banner or analytics vendor is being added as part of this update.
1. What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small text files that a website can place in a browser. Similar technologies include session storage, local storage, device identifiers, and information held in a browser’s memory. They can help a site remember a setting, keep a session working, protect against misuse, or understand how a service is being used.
2. How Rural Health Path works today
The pathway quiz keeps your profession, career stage, and location choices in page memory as you move through the questions. Medicine and International Clinicians also answer one additional question about the country where they completed their initial professional qualification, and that answer remains in page memory too. Other visitors complete the standard three-question flow. You do not need an account to browse the site. The full dashboard is shown after you enter an email address and the site successfully records the pathway request.
The current app may rely on essential browser or session information where it is needed for normal operation, routing, security, or a necessary preference. The site does not intentionally use those technologies to follow you around other websites.
3. Essential technologies
Essential cookies or browser storage, if used, should be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the service to work. They may support navigation, security, a temporary session, accessibility settings, or a form interaction. Blocking them can affect basic operation, although the quiz may still be viewable without optional storage.
The owner should keep the technical inventory in the completion callout above accurate, including each name, purpose, provider, duration, and whether information leaves Australia.
4. Advertising and analytics
Rural Health Path does not intentionally set advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or social advertising identifiers in the current version. It also does not claim to run analytics that have not been configured and disclosed.
If analytics, personalisation, marketing, or other tracking technology is introduced later, the owner should assess the privacy impact, update this policy before use, identify the provider and data flows, and add an appropriate choice or notice where required. Future technology must not be treated as covered by this current-state description.
5. Your browser choices
Most browsers let you view, block, delete, or restrict cookies through privacy or site settings. You can also clear local storage and browsing data. Browser controls differ, and blocking essential storage may affect the site’s operation. Private browsing modes can limit storage but do not make online activity anonymous.
6. Privacy and official guidance
Cookie and online identifier information can be personal information when it identifies or reasonably identifies a person. The owner should consider transparency, collection, use, disclosure, security, direct marketing, and overseas handling obligations under the Australian Privacy Principles.
7. Changes and questions
This policy should be updated whenever the site adds a provider, cookie, analytics tool, advertising technology, preference centre, or materially different browser storage. The latest version shows its update date. For questions, use the owner contact details that remain to be completed, or read the Privacy Policy for information about email and quiz choices.
