Privacy Policy

What we collect

Coronial does not require you to create an account or provide any personal information to use the site. We collect anonymous usage data via Google Analytics (page views, search terms, browser type) to understand how the site is used and improve it. This data is aggregated and cannot be used to identify you.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies to distinguish unique visitors and sessions. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Case data

All findings displayed on Coronial are publicly available documents from Australian coroners' courts. We do not add, alter, or supplement the personal information contained in those documents. If you are named in a coronial finding and have concerns about its appearance on this site, please contact us.

We make every effort to respect all court orders for redaction and non-publication. Where a coroner has suppressed identifying information — including the identity of the deceased, witnesses, or involved parties — we honour those orders. Some court PDFs have technically defective redaction: the information is visually obscured by a black box but remains present as selectable, copyable text in the underlying file. Every PDF is checked for this. Where it is found, we remove the hidden text from our archived copy before publishing it, extract text only from that corrected copy, and withhold the finding's full text from its case page, so the protected information is not republished or surfaced in search engine results. We remove a finding entirely if the court asks us to.

Third-party services

• Google Analytics — anonymous usage analytics (Google Privacy Policy)
• Cloudflare — web hosting and CDN (Cloudflare Privacy Policy)
• Fly.io — API and database hosting (Fly.io Privacy Policy)

Contact

Questions about this policy? Get in touch.