Your political views are yours

Political views and voting preferences are highly sensitive. WiseVote is designed to collect as little as possible and to work fully without an account.

What is stored, and where

• On your device: your electorate, My Ballot order and private notes are kept in your browser's local storage. Your ballot order and notes are never sent to WiseVote. To show your candidates, your browser asks our server for the electorate you saved, and suburb or postcode searches are sent to look up electorates. These requests aren't linked to an account or name, but like any website our hosting provider handles your IP address in standard server logs.
• Ask Vota questions: processed to produce an answer. WiseVote doesn't store or log them, but they are sent to our hosting provider (Vercel), which runs WiseVote's servers in Sydney. Don't put personal details in a question.
• Error reports: the text you write and what it refers to. We don't ask for your name or email, so please don't include personal information.
• Visit statistics: we use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It uses no cookies, doesn't identify you, and we strip anything after the page address (such as a question typed into Ask Vota) and your electorate from the page address before it is counted.

What we will never do

• Sell personal political-profile data.
• Expose individual voting preferences to political campaigns, parties or advertisers.
• Infer sensitive political beliefs you haven't chosen to tell us.

Accounts

Accounts are optional and only needed to sync between devices. If enabled, saved preferences would be encrypted and deletable at any time.