What we collect
The postcode where you are currently registered to vote, any locality or electorate confirmation needed to place the count correctly, your broad connection type, and any optional issue detail you choose to add after being counted.
Privacy, Data Use and Safety
Every vote counts. Every count matters.
Veterans Count asks people connected to Navy, Army or Air Force, past or present, to add a simple count by federal electorate.
No name is required. No service number. No DVA claim details. No medical information. Email is optional. Public pages show aggregate federal electorate totals only.
What we never collect
Veterans Count does not ask for your name, service number, DVA claim number, medical records, rank, unit, current posting, employer, case file or individual claim history.
What appears publicly
Public pages show aggregate federal electorate totals, issue summaries once thresholds are met, and official AEC or ABS baseline context. Public pages do not identify individual people.
Data use
How the count is used.
Count data
- used to build aggregate totals by federal electorate
- used to show federal MPs the aggregate count in their federal electorate
- used to prepare public electorate summaries and campaign updates
- not used as a personal casework or claims record
Optional contact data
- email is optional and can be added after you are counted
- email is used only for campaign updates you request, privacy or removal requests, or federal MP response tracking you choose to report
- email is not published on public pages
- email is not given to federal MPs, parties, DVA, Defence, employers, media or veterans organisations
Disclosure limits
Who does not receive your personal details.
Veterans Count does not give personal contact details or individual submissions to federal MPs, political parties, DVA, Defence, employers, the media or veterans organisations.
Federal MPs and public readers see aggregate federal electorate numbers only. If you choose to email your federal MP, that separate email is sent by you through your own email account and is separate from adding your count.
Website analytics
We measure the site, not individual people.
Veterans Count uses privacy-friendly website analytics to understand basic site activity, such as page visits, referral sources, form submissions and campaign button clicks.
We do not send names, emails, postcodes, service details, DVA details, medical information or individual count records to analytics tools.
Private referral measurement
Sharing can help grow the count without exposing who you know.
Veterans Count may create a random referral link so it can measure aggregate visits and completed counts attributable to sharing. The referral code does not contain your electorate, issues, email or Count submission identifier.
Veterans Count does not access or upload your address book and does not learn who receives your invitation. Referral results do not reveal another participant’s identity, electorate, connection or selected issues. Small results are suppressed and delayed to reduce the risk of somebody inferring whether a particular person participated.
Removal and correction
You can ask us to remove your email from the contact list.
If you added an email, you can ask us to remove it from the contact list. Use the contact form and choose “Privacy / remove my email”. Privacy or removal requests need an email address so Veterans Count can reply and confirm the request.
Because count records do not require a name or identifying details, removing an optional email does not require you to disclose service details, DVA claim information or medical information. A count only matters when the quiet people are included, and trust only works when contact permission can be withdrawn.
Data integrity
Privacy does not mean unprotected.
Veterans Count uses privacy-preserving checks to reduce bots, spam and obvious repeated misuse. Suspicious, test or repeated entries may be excluded from public totals.
These checks do not require your name, service number, DVA claim details or medical information.