Privacy Policy

White Mist Studio Website Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 November 2025

White Mist Studio (“we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to our website https://whitemist.com.au (the “Website”) and the three YouTube channels we operate, including any videos embedded on the Website.

We comply with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

Information We Collect

  1. Contact Forms and Email When you submit a message through the contact form or email us directly, we collect the name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiry or provide the requested service and is not used for marketing or shared with third parties (except where required by law).
  2. Comments If you leave a comment on our blog posts, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture (if any) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  3. Media If you upload images or other media to the Website (for example, in comments or contact forms), we strongly recommend avoiding uploading images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the Website could download and extract any location data from such images.
  4. Cookies The Website uses cookies for a variety of purposes, including improving user experience (e.g., remembering your preferences or login status) and analysing how the site is used. If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience when leaving future comments. These cookies last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. You can control and/or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. Disabling cookies will not prevent you from using most of the Website.

Third-Party Services and Embedded Content

Google Analytics We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Website so we can improve content and user experience. Google Analytics collects anonymised data such as your approximate location (country/region), pages viewed, time spent on the site, and device type. It does not collect information that directly identifies you. For details, see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Embedded YouTube Videos Articles on the Website may contain embedded videos from our three YouTube channels. When you play these videos, YouTube (Google) may collect data about you (e.g., IP address, viewing behaviour) and may set its own cookies. This data collection is governed entirely by YouTube/Google’s Privacy Policy, over which we have no control. See: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Future Advertising or Affiliate Links If we introduce Google AdSense, affiliate links, or other advertising services in the future, those partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve more relevant ads. We will update this policy and clearly notify you if and when such services are implemented.

Your Rights and Data Security

  • Access and correction: You have the right to access or correct personal information we hold about you. Contact us using the details below.
  • Data retention: We keep contact form submissions and comments only as long as necessary for customer service, legal, or legitimate business purposes.
  • Security: We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure.
  • Complaints: If you believe we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles, you may complain to us or to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

Changes to This Policy We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review it periodically.

Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via our contact form.

White Mist Studio
https://whitemist.com.au