Privacy
This statement describes what this build of the site actually does, not what a template site might do. There is no advertising on it, no account system, no lookup and no form submission anywhere — and the one thing it does measure is set out in full below.
The short version
Who publishes this site
This site is published by Desymphony and served from vicfines.com. For anything about this statement, write to info@vicfines.com.
This statement is written against the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. It describes what this build of the site actually does — not what a site of this kind might do.
What personal information this site collects
None. There is no account system, no newsletter, no comment form, no contact form and no lookup on this site. It never asks for a name, an email address, a driver licence number, an infringement notice or obligation number, a date of birth or a vehicle plate, and it has no server-side application to receive one if you offered it.
The pages are static reference documents. Nothing you could type anywhere on them goes anywhere, and nothing recorded about your visit names you — what is counted, and the analytics cookie that does it, is described in full under Analytics below.
Analytics
This site loads Google Analytics 4 to count visits. Ahead of it, every page sets Google Consent Mode defaults by region. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics, advertising and personalisation storage is denied by default and no analytics cookie is stored. Everywhere else, Australia included, analytics storage is granted by default and Google Analytics sets its own first-party cookies (_ga, and _ga_ followed by an ID) holding a random identifier, so a returning browser is recognised across visits to this site. There is no consent banner here, of ours or Google’s, and no on-site choice; nothing on the page changes those defaults.
What Google receives on each page view is the page address, the page you came from, an approximate location derived from your IP address, and your device and browser type. The tag is fetched from googletagmanager.com, so your IP address is visible to Google as part of making that connection, and this statement will not call that anonymous. Nothing about your fine, your licence or anything you type is included, because the site never receives any of it in the first place. Google’s own handling of that data is described at policies.google.com/privacy.
If you would rather not be counted, block or clear cookies in your browser settings, install Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or block the script in your browser or with an extension; every page here keeps working exactly as it does now. Our own measurement code leaves internal visits out of the figures — automated browsers, other hostnames and visits with ?internal=1 appended — without writing anything to your browser.
Server logs
Like any web server, the host serving these pages records ordinary request information — an IP address, the page requested, a timestamp and a user-agent string — for the purpose of operating and securing the service. That is a technical necessity of serving a page rather than a measurement of you, it is not linked to anything else, and it is not used to build a profile.
Third parties and outbound links
The Google Analytics tag described above is the only thing loaded from another domain. No third-party font, image or stylesheet is: the typefaces are served from this domain, so no font provider learns that you visited.
Some pages link out to official services — the Victorian Government’s fines and road agencies, and Victoria’s legislation website. Those are ordinary links: following one takes you to somebody else’s site, governed by their own privacy policy and not by this statement.
Your rights
The Australian Privacy Principles give you the right to ask an organisation for the personal information it holds about you and to ask for it to be corrected. What this site holds is aggregate visit figures that identify nobody and cannot be searched for you — there is no identifier in them to look you up by. So in practice there is nothing to hand over and nothing to correct, but if you believe otherwise, write to info@vicfines.com and you will get a straight answer.
If you are not satisfied with how a privacy matter has been handled, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Changes to this statement
This statement is dated below. It is updated when what the site does changes, not on a schedule — and the description of the analytics position in particular is kept in step with the build rather than written to cover a future one.
Last reviewed 19 August 2026