Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 August 2026

Creating Calm Chaos respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit creatingcalmchaos.com (“the Website”), how that information may be used and the choices available to you.

By using this Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

Creating Calm Chaos is an Australian-owned lifestyle website sharing information and personal experiences related to caregiving, grandparenting, family activities, recipes, wellness, flexible income, travel and helpful product recommendations.

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the information associated with your use of the Website, please contact:

Email: info@creatingcalmchaos.com
Website: https://creatingcalmchaos.com

Information We May Collect

The information collected depends on how you interact with the Website.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may choose to provide information when you:

• Submit a contact form

• Subscribe to emails or website updates

• Download a resource

• Purchase a digital product

• Respond to a survey or promotion

• Communicate with Creating Calm Chaos by email

• Leave a comment, if commenting features are available

This information may include your:

• Name

• Email address

• Message or enquiry

• Subscription preferences

• Information you voluntarily include in a form or communication

• Order details where relevant

Please avoid including unnecessary sensitive personal, medical, legal or financial information in contact forms or emails.

If you purchase a product through a third-party payment provider, the provider may collect your payment and billing information. Creating Calm Chaos does not normally receive or store your complete debit or credit card details.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically by the Website, its hosting provider and authorised service providers.

This may include:

• Internet Protocol address

• Browser and device type

• Operating system

• General geographic location

• Referring website or search term

• Pages viewed

• Links clicked

• Date, time and duration of visits

• Website interactions

• Cookie and similar identifier information

• Technical error and performance data

This information helps operate, secure and improve the Website and understand how visitors find and use its content.

How We Use Information

Information may be used to:

• Operate and maintain the Website

• Respond to enquiries and messages

• Provide requested downloads, resources or services

• Send emails to people who have chosen to subscribe

• Process and administer digital-product purchases

• Understand which articles and resources are useful to visitors

• Measure website traffic and performance

• Improve content, navigation and user experience

• Detect spam, misuse, security threats or technical problems

• Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

• Manage affiliate links and advertising

• Protect the rights, safety and integrity of the Website and its users

Creating Calm Chaos will not use personal information for an unrelated purpose unless permitted by law or your consent has been obtained where required.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small data files stored on your device when you visit a website. The Website and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

• Keep the Website functioning correctly

• Remember preferences

• Measure traffic and visitor behaviour

• Understand how visitors reach and use the Website

• Improve performance

• Track referrals to affiliate retailers

• Display and measure advertising

• Help prevent fraud and misuse

Some cookies are necessary for the Website to operate. Other cookies, including analytics and advertising cookies, may require consent depending on your location.

Where a cookie-consent tool is displayed, you can use it to accept, reject or manage available cookie categories. You may also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how certain parts of the Website function.

Google Analytics

The Website uses Google Analytics 4 to understand website traffic and how visitors interact with content.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• Pages visited

• Approximate location

• Device and browser information

• Referring source

• Time spent on the Website

• Interactions with Website features

This information is generally reported in an aggregated form and helps improve the Website and its content. Google may process this information on servers located outside Australia.

You can learn more about how Google processes information at:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

You can also install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Advertising and Google AdSense

Creating Calm Chaos may use Google AdSense and other advertising partners to display advertisements on the Website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or similar technologies to:

• Serve advertisements

• Measure advertisement performance

• Limit how often an advertisement appears

• Detect fraud

• Personalise advertising, where consent and applicable law allow

• Display advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this Website or other websites

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertisements based on visits to this Website and other websites.

You can manage personalised advertising through Google’s Ad Settings:

https://adssettings.google.com

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services at:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Visitors may also be able to manage advertising preferences through the cookie-consent tool displayed on the Website.

Advertising partners operate under their own privacy policies. Creating Calm Chaos does not control the cookies or information collected directly by those providers.

Affiliate Links

Some articles contain affiliate links to third-party retailers, including Amazon.

If you click an affiliate link, the retailer or affiliate platform may use cookies or similar technologies to record that the visit came from Creating Calm Chaos. If you make a qualifying purchase, Creating Calm Chaos may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate providers and retailers may collect information in accordance with their own privacy policies. Creating Calm Chaos does not control how those third parties collect, store or use information after you leave this Website.

Affiliate relationships are disclosed clearly in relevant content.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Email Subscriptions and Communications

If you subscribe to receive emails, your name, email address, subscription status and engagement information may be stored and processed by the Website or an authorised email-service provider.

Emails will only be sent where there is an appropriate basis to do so. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link contained in the message or contacting Creating Calm Chaos directly.

Administrative emails relating to a purchase, requested download or direct enquiry may still be sent when necessary.

Creating Calm Chaos does not sell its email subscriber list.

Contact Forms

When you submit a contact form, the information you enter is used to respond to your enquiry and maintain appropriate records of the communication.

Website hosting, email or form-processing providers may process this information to deliver your message.

Please do not use contact forms for emergencies or send highly sensitive personal, medical or financial information.

Hosting and Service Providers

The Website is created and hosted using Hostinger services.

Creating Calm Chaos may use trusted providers for services including:

• Website hosting and security

• Analytics

• Search performance monitoring

• Email delivery

• Contact-form processing

• Digital-product delivery

• Payment processing

• Affiliate-link management

• Advertising

• Spam and fraud prevention

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services and are subject to their own privacy and security practices.

Some providers may process or store information outside Australia, including in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union or other countries.

Links to Other Websites

The Website contains links to external websites, retailers, social-media platforms and other services that are not controlled by Creating Calm Chaos.

Once you leave this Website, the privacy policy and practices of the external provider apply. Creating Calm Chaos is not responsible for the privacy, content, availability or security practices of third-party websites.

You should review the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.

Children’s Privacy

Creating Calm Chaos contains family-oriented information, but the Website is directed to adults and is not intended to collect personal information directly from children.

Creating Calm Chaos does not knowingly collect personal information from a child without appropriate consent. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the Website, please contact us so the information can be reviewed and, where appropriate, deleted.

Parents and guardians should supervise children’s use of the internet and external links.

How Long Information Is Retained

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to:

• Respond to enquiries

• Provide requested services

• Maintain business and transaction records

• Meet legal, accounting or reporting obligations

• Resolve disputes

• Prevent fraud or misuse

• Maintain consent and unsubscribe records

When information is no longer reasonably required, it may be deleted, anonymised or securely archived where legally permitted.

Information Security

Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no website, email transmission, database or internet connection can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information electronically at your own risk.

If you believe information associated with your interaction with the Website has been compromised, please contact Creating Calm Chaos promptly.

Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have rights relating to your personal information, including the right to:

• Request access to information held about you

• Ask for inaccurate information to be corrected

• Request deletion in certain circumstances

• Object to or restrict certain processing

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

• Unsubscribe from marketing communications

• Request information about how your data is used

• Lodge a complaint with an appropriate privacy authority

To make a request, contact info@creatingcalmchaos.com. Reasonable identity verification may be required before a request is completed.

Australian visitors may find information about privacy rights and complaints through the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner:

https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy

Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or other jurisdictions may also have rights under their local privacy laws and may contact their relevant data-protection authority.

International Data Transfers

Some service providers used by the Website operate or store information outside Australia.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, reasonable steps will be taken where required to ensure it is handled consistently with applicable privacy obligations. However, privacy laws in another country may differ from those in Australia.

Disclosure of Information

Information may be disclosed:

• To service providers assisting with Website operations

• When you have consented to the disclosure

• To process a transaction or fulfil a request

• To protect the Website, its users or others from harm

• To investigate fraud, misuse or security concerns

• When required or authorised by law, court order or government authority

• In connection with a sale, transfer or restructuring of all or part of the Website or business, subject to appropriate safeguards

Creating Calm Chaos does not directly sell contact details or email subscriber information for money. Some advertising technologies may be treated as “sharing” or “selling” under particular overseas privacy laws, and visitors may use available cookie or advertising controls where applicable.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when the Website, its services, legal requirements or privacy practices change.

The revised policy will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically.

Contact

For questions, privacy requests or concerns about this policy, contact:

Creating Calm Chaos
Email: info@creatingcalmchaos.com
Website: https://creatingcalmchaos.com