>Privacy
No advertising, no profiling, no lists. We count visits, not people. If you send us a message we use it to reply to you. The detail is below, and it is short on purpose.
Last updated 25 September 2026
>Who we are
Abelian Systems Pty Ltd, ABN 20 701 945 440, trades as Abelian. We are an Australian company based in Sydney, and we are the entity responsible for the personal information described on this page.
>What we collect
When you use the contact form we collect your name, your organisation, your email address, the topic you chose and whatever you write in the message.
Our web host keeps ordinary server logs, which record IP addresses, request times and the pages served. We use those to keep the site running and to see if someone is attacking it.
We count page views, using Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. It does not identify you, build a profile of you, or follow you to any other site. What it tells us is how many people opened a page, roughly which country they were in, and how quickly the page loaded.
That is the whole list. This site sets no advertising or tracking cookies, and does no profiling, no advertising and no cross-site tracking of any kind.
>Why
We use your details to reply to your enquiry and to keep a record of what was asked and what we said. If the enquiry turns into an engagement, those details become part of our ordinary business records.
>Who sees it
We do not sell personal information, we do not disclose it in exchange for any benefit, and we do not add you to a marketing list.
The only third parties involved are the providers that host this website and carry our email. Where a piece of work involves a partner firm, we will tell you before we pass anything to them.
>Where it lives
This site runs on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare serves it from whichever of its data centres is nearest you, which for Australian visitors is usually one in Australia, and it keeps the server logs described above. When you submit the form, your message passes through a small piece of code running on Cloudflare’s network. That code holds it only for the moment it takes to pass it on, and stores none of it.
Your message is then delivered into our own mailbox, which is Google Workspace. That is where an enquiry actually comes to rest, and where it stays for as long as the next section allows. No separate mail provider is involved: the message is created inside the same account that receives it.
Google does not offer Australian storage for Workspace mailbox content. The choices are the United States or Europe, and we have set ours to the United States. So although we are an Australian company and the site itself is served from Australia, the enquiry you send us is stored in the United States by Google. Cloudflare is also a United States company, running a global network, so a request to this site may be handled at any of its locations. Beyond those two, we disclose personal information to no overseas recipient at all.
>How long
Enquiries that do not lead to work are deleted after 12 months. Records tied to an engagement are kept for as long as the law requires us to keep business records, and are then deleted.
>Security
Access is limited to the people who need it, which in practice means the engineer replying to you. The site and our mail are protected by the controls you would expect of a company that does this work for a living.
>Your choices
>If it goes wrong
If we suffer a data breach that is likely to cause you serious harm, we will tell you and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, tell us first and we will try to put it right. If you are still unhappy, you can complain to the OAIC at oaic.gov.au.
>The law
We handle personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.