Decibri Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 1, 2026

Decibri is a trading name of Venture Consulting Group Pty Ltd (ABN 92 129 223 070), an Australian company. In this Privacy Policy, "Decibri", "we", "us", and "our" refer to that company operating as Decibri.

This Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, contribute to our projects, use our software, or contact us. We handle personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). For more about the Privacy Act and the APPs, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au.

This Policy describes how we handle personal information across our website, projects, and software. Different activities rest on different grounds: some handling is based on your consent, and some is necessary to provide what you have asked for, to administer our projects, or to meet our legal obligations and legitimate interests, as described below.

Information we collect

We collect personal information in the following ways.

Website visitors. Our website at decibri.com is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages, with DNS provided by Cloudflare. We do not collect personal information from visitors ourselves, and our website does not use cookies or analytics. As part of hosting the site, GitHub logs visitor IP addresses for security purposes, and Cloudflare processes DNS queries, each under its own privacy terms.

Contributors. When you contribute to our projects and agree to our Contributor License Agreement, we keep a deliberately minimal record of that agreement: your GitHub username and account identifier, the version of the agreement you agreed to, and the date and time you agreed. We also process the information already attached to your contributions on the hosting platform, such as your commits, pull requests, and the name and email address in your commit metadata. Our source code repositories are public, so a record of your contributions, including any personal information contained in them, forms part of the public development history of the project.

Software users. Our software is designed to process audio on your device. Audio and any information derived from it are processed locally on your own device, are not transmitted to us, and are not collected or stored by us.

People who contact us. If you contact us, we collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and the content of your message, so we can respond and keep a record of the correspondence.

We do not ask for sensitive information, and we ask that you do not send it to us unless it is necessary.

How we use information

We use personal information to:

• operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and software;
• administer our projects, verify contributor identity and authority, and keep a clear and reliable record of contributions and their provenance;
• respond to your enquiries and provide support;
• comply with our legal, regulatory, and audit obligations, and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; and
• protect the security and integrity of our projects, systems, and users.

We only use or disclose personal information for the purpose it was collected, for a directly related purpose you would reasonably expect, or as permitted or required by law.

For contributors specifically, we keep the record of your agreement to our Contributor License Agreement because it is necessary to administer that agreement and to establish the provenance and licensing of contributions to our projects, and because we have a legitimate interest in maintaining a reliable and permanent record of who agreed to which terms. This handling is not based on consent that can be withdrawn; it is part of entering into and giving effect to the agreement, and part of the public development history of our projects.

How we share information

We do not sell or trade your personal information. We may share it with:

• Service providers who help us operate, including our source code host (GitHub), our DNS provider (Cloudflare), and other hosting, storage, and infrastructure providers, under confidentiality obligations;
• Professional advisers, such as our lawyers and accountants, where reasonably necessary;
• A purchaser or successor of our business or assets, as part of a sale, merger, or reorganisation, subject to the recipient handling personal information consistently with this Policy; and
• Others where required or authorised by law, or where we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of you, us, or others.

Overseas disclosure

Some of our service providers are located outside Australia, so your personal information may be disclosed to, stored in, or processed in other countries.

In particular, our source code is hosted on GitHub, and personal information associated with contributions is disclosed to GitHub, Inc. in the United States. Our DNS is provided by Cloudflare, Inc., also in the United States. Where we disclose personal information overseas, we take reasonable steps to ensure it is handled consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles.

Cookies

Our website does not use cookies.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. These steps include access controls, use of reputable infrastructure providers, and keeping contributor records in a form that limits the information collected. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are also responsible for keeping your own account credentials secure.

If a data breach occurs that is likely to result in serious harm to any individual whose personal information is involved, we will notify affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as required by the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Retention

We keep personal information only for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Policy, or for as long as required or permitted by law. Because our repositories and their development history are public and are relied upon for provenance and licensing, records of contributions, including the minimal record of your agreement and the information in the public development history, are retained as part of that permanent public record. Where you ask us to remove personal information, we will do what is reasonable and lawful, but we may be unable to remove information that forms part of that public record.

Accessing and correcting your information

You may ask for access to the personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct it if it is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading. Contact us using the details below. We will respond within a reasonable period. There is generally no charge, though we may charge a reasonable cost for giving access in some cases. If we refuse a request, we will explain why in writing and how you can complain. Some information forms part of the public and permanent history of our projects and may not be able to be corrected or removed.

Complaints

If you believe we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles or mishandled your personal information, please contact us using the details below. We will acknowledge your complaint and aim to respond within a reasonable period. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au.

Children

Our website, projects, and software are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have collected personal information from a child, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The current version is always available at decibri.com/privacy, and the "Last updated" date above shows when it was last revised. Your continued use of our website, projects, or software after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Policy.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Policy, or wish to access or correct your personal information or make a complaint, contact Decibri at [email protected].