Privacy policy
This policy explains what personal information the Let Hobart Bloom campaign collects, why we collect it, where it is stored, and the choices you have. We have written it in plain English, and we mean it.
Last updated: 17 July 2026
Who we are
This website supports Louise Bloomfield’s campaign as an independent candidate for Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart at the 2026 local government election. The campaign is responsible for the personal information collected through this site. The site is authorised by Louise Bloomfield, 57b Patrick Street, Hobart TAS 7000.
We handle your personal information in a way consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). We treat the information you give us with care, whether or not any legal exemption might apply to a political campaign, because it is the right thing to do.
What we collect
We only collect what we need for the reason you contacted us. Here is exactly what each part of the site collects.
When you contact us
Our contact form collects your name, your email address, the kind of enquiry it is (general, media or volunteering), and your message.
When you subscribe to updates
Our newsletter sign-up collects your email address, and a note of which page you signed up from so we have a record of your consent.
When you volunteer
Our volunteer form collects your name and email address, and, if you choose to add them, your phone number and suburb. It also records how you would like to help, any message you send, and the fact that you ticked the consent box so we can be in touch.
When you offer to host a sign
Our host-a-sign form collects your name and email address, and, if you choose to add it, your phone number. To confirm your email address is real, we send you a verification email first, and only after you confirm it do we ask for your street address, suburb and postcode, along with any notes you would like to add. It also records the fact that you ticked the consent box, and which version of the consent wording you agreed to. We use these details to verify your registration and to arrange placing a corflute sign at your address during the campaign.
When you donate
Donations are processed securely by Stripe, our payment provider. You enter your name, email address, billing address and card details directly with Stripe on their checkout page. Your card details never reach our servers. We accept donations from individuals only, not from companies or organisations. From Stripe we receive a record of your donation, including your name, email, billing address and the amount, so we can issue a receipt and meet our electoral disclosure obligations (see the donations section below).
When you browse the site
We keep simple, privacy-friendly visit statistics. For each page view we record the page you visited, your approximate country, your device type (mobile, tablet or desktop), and the website that referred you if you arrived from an external link. We do not use cookies for this, and we do not store your IP address. See how our visit statistics work for the detail.
To keep the site safe from spam and abuse, our systems briefly use your IP address to limit how often forms can be submitted. This happens in the moment the request is handled and your raw IP address is not written to our database.
Why we collect it
- To reply to you when you send an enquiry or ask a question.
- To send you the campaign updates you asked for, if you subscribed.
- To coordinate volunteering when you offer to help.
- To process your donation, issue a receipt, and meet our electoral compliance obligations.
- To understand how the site is used so we can improve it.
- To protect the site from spam, abuse and fraud.
Cookies
This website does not set tracking cookies, and there is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to. If you go to the donation checkout, Stripe may set its own cookies to process your payment securely and prevent fraud. Those cookies are governed by Stripe’s own privacy policy.
Where your information is stored
The details you submit through our forms and the records of donations are stored in a database hosted in Sydney, Australia. The website itself is served through international infrastructure providers, which means some technical processing may take place on servers outside Australia. Wherever your information is handled, we take reasonable steps to keep it secure.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your personal information, and we never will. We share it only where it is needed to run the campaign or where the law requires it:
- Stripe processes donation payments securely on our behalf.
- Supabase hosts the database, in Sydney, where form and donation records are stored.
- Vercel hosts and serves the website.
- Cloudflare provides the anti-spam check on our forms; when you interact with a form it receives your IP address and browser information to tell a real person from an automated bot.
- Resend sends donation receipts and campaign emails, once email sending is switched on.
- The Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) receives the donation information the law requires us to disclose (see below).
- The Hobart City Council receives the donation information a sitting elected member must disclose to its General Manager (see below).
Each of these providers handles your information under their own privacy terms and only for the purpose we engage them for.
Electoral donation disclosure
If you donate to the campaign, the law requires us to disclose certain donation information. Under Tasmanian local government electoral laws, donations of $50 or more, including donations that reach $50 or more when added together over the campaign, must be disclosed to the Tasmanian Electoral Commission and will be published on a public register. That public register includes the donor’s name.
As the candidate is a sitting elected member, donations (including cumulative donations) of $50 or more must also be disclosed to the General Manager of the Hobart City Council and will appear on the Council’s public gift register.
This is a disclosure of your personal information that we are legally required to make. When you donate, you acknowledge this on the donation form. Please also note that donations to local government candidates are not tax-deductible.
How our visit statistics work
We like to know roughly how many people visit the site and which pages are popular, but we do not want to track you. So we built our visit statistics to be private by design.
- There are no cookies and no cross-site tracking. We cannot follow you around the web, and we do not try to.
- We do not store your IP address. Instead, when you load a page, your IP address and browser are combined with a secret value and a daily-changing marker, then turned into a scrambled code that cannot be reversed back into your identity.
- That code changes every day, so even the anonymous count cannot be linked from one day to the next.
- The result tells us how many visits a page received and the broad picture of where visitors came from, and nothing that identifies you personally.
How long we keep your information
We keep your information for as long as we need it for the reason you gave it to us, generally for the duration of the campaign, and for any further period required by law. Donation records in particular may need to be kept to meet electoral record-keeping and disclosure requirements. When we no longer need your information, and are not required to keep it, we remove it.
Access, correction and deletion
You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it if it is wrong, or ask us to delete it. To make a request, contact the campaign through our contact page or write to us at 57b Patrick Street, Hobart TAS 7000. We will respond within a reasonable time. Please note that where the law requires us to keep or disclose certain donation information, we may not be able to delete it.
If you have a concern
If you are worried about how we have handled your personal information, please tell us first through our contact page, and we will do our best to put it right. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time as the campaign grows or as our practices change. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page. This policy was last updated on 17 July 2026.
Contact us
For anything to do with your privacy, or to make a request about your information, please get in touch through our contact page, or write to the campaign at 57b Patrick Street, Hobart TAS 7000.