Privacy Policy

Council Scorer is an independent Australian website publishing performance scores for local government areas using publicly available government data. You can contact us at hello@councilscorer.com or through our contact page.

Information we collect: details you give us through the contact, feedback, advertising enquiry and email-notification forms (name, email, message); usage information such as pages viewed, referrer, approximate location, device and browser; and standard server logs including IP address for security and abuse prevention. We never sell your personal information.

Cookies: essential cookies keep the site working (for example your comparison tray); analytics cookies from Google Analytics 4 and privacy-friendly analytics measure page views and sessions in aggregate; and advertising cookies may be set where advertising is shown.

Third-party advertising, including Google AdSense: third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings or at aboutads.info/choices, and you can block or delete cookies in your browser at any time.

We use your information to reply to enquiries, send email updates you explicitly requested (every email has an unsubscribe link), measure and improve the site, and prevent abuse. Form submissions are stored in a managed Postgres database that may process data outside Australia.

You can ask us to access, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, and unsubscribe from emails at any time, consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles. This policy was last updated on 6 August 2026.