1. Current position
The CCTIDTO-controlled website code does not currently set advertising, marketing, analytics or personalisation cookies. It does not contain third-party tracking pixels, social-media widgets, embedded video players or behavioural advertising tools.
Because no non-essential CCTIDTO cookies are currently used, the website does not display a consent banner. A banner that asks for consent where there is nothing meaningful to accept or reject would be confusing.
The website does not need tracking merely because tracking is common on other websites. CCTIDTO will not add analytics, advertising pixels or behavioural tracking unless there is a defined and proportionate purpose, appropriate governance approval, completed privacy and security review, and transparent visitor controls where required.
2. Strictly necessary hosting technology
The hosting environment may use strictly necessary session, load-balancing or security technology to operate and protect the website. These technologies are distinct from CCTIDTO analytics or marketing.
3. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website or service stores through a browser. Cookies can be necessary for a service to function, or may be used for preferences, measurement, advertising or tracking. Similar technologies include local storage, software development kits and tracking pixels.
4. Future analytics, embeds or tracking
Before CCTIDTO introduces analytics, embedded media, preference cookies, tracking pixels or marketing technology, it should complete privacy and security due diligence, identify the provider and data flows, update this notice and the Privacy page, and introduce a clear consent or preference mechanism where legally or ethically required.
Any future proposal should be assessed against the Australian Privacy Principles and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's guidance on third-party tracking technologies. See the OAIC guidance on tracking pixels and privacy obligations.
Sensitive article pages should not be used to build advertising profiles or infer a visitor's religion, ethnicity, political opinion, health, trauma history or interest in terrorism-related material.
5. Requirements for any future consent banner
If non-essential cookies or tracking are introduced, they should remain off until the visitor has made a valid choice. The first layer should provide clear and equally accessible options to reject non-essential cookies, manage preferences or accept all, with an explanation of each purpose and provider.
Wording that says cookies support analytics or marketing should only appear if those technologies are actually in use and have been disclosed. Necessary cookies should be identified separately, and a visitor should be able to revisit or withdraw their choice.
6. Browser controls
Most browsers allow a person to view, block or delete cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent access to a private or secure service. Browser settings do not necessarily prevent every form of server logging or pixel-based tracking, which is why CCTIDTO must also control the technologies placed in its own website.
7. Review
This notice must be rechecked against the deployed public website before implementation and whenever a new analytics, media, security or engagement service is introduced.