What this directory stores and what happens when you visit a provider.
Provider referral links
“Visit official website” links include standard UTM parameters and a non-personal reference code. These identify this directory and the provider listing, so the destination may attribute a visit in its own analytics. They do not contain your name, email, search terms or saved providers.
Tags used: utm_source=australian_rugby_pathways, utm_medium=referral, utm_campaign=provider_directory, utm_content=the listing identifier, and ref=ARP plus the listing identifier. If a destination already uses a ref parameter, the directory reference uses arp_ref instead. Unrelated link parameters and fragments are preserved; standard UTM attribution fields are set for this directory.
Advertising and consent
This edition is ad-free. Adding advertising would require an updated privacy notice identifying actual vendors and data uses, relevant user choices and consent controls, and review of child-directed content rules. A cookie notice on its own would not establish compliance. See the advertising disclosure for the current position.
Saved pathways
If your browser allows it, saved listing identifiers are kept in local storage on this device. They are not sent to this website’s operator. Use “Clear saved pathways” below to remove them. Private-browsing settings or clearing browser data may also remove them.
Search and external websites
Search and filters run in your browser. External provider websites have their own privacy practices. This site’s hosting platform may process standard technical request information needed to deliver and secure the service. This site does not offer contact, application or payment forms.
Children and sensitive information
These guides are intended to help players, parents, carers and adults researching rugby options. No player profiles, birth dates, school records or health information are requested or submitted through this directory. Parents and carers should use the provider’s verified channels for junior applications and avoid sending sensitive documents through public comments or unverified messages.
Current commercial position
We don’t currently accept payment for placement or rank organisations as the best. Referral tags do not mean that a provider has agreed to pay, endorse the directory or report conversions. No referral commission arrangement is currently represented here. If paid listings, sponsorships or referral arrangements are introduced, they will be clearly labelled and this notice will be updated.
Traffic and provider-link measurement
PostHog is configured for limited cookieless measurement on this directory. Delivery depends on browser settings, service availability and the account limits. This release has no first-party event database or public owner-reporting endpoint.
When measurement is active, PostHog receives approved public page views and provider-link clicks, a directory identifier, public provider identifiers and broad source and channel categories such as Google search or a social referral. This integration excludes search and filter text, saved shortlists, form content, raw referring URLs, arbitrary campaign values, URL queries and fragments from event properties. A provider click is not a confirmed enquiry, booking or sale. Autocapture, person profiles, session replay, keystroke recording, advertising pixels and personalised advertising are disabled.
Cookieless counts and their limits
The integration uses PostHog's always-cookieless mode. It does not save an analytics identifier in cookies, local storage or session storage. PostHog receives your IP address as part of the connection, together with your browser’s user-agent string, which describes browser and device software. The user-agent string is included in event properties because PostHog requires it for cookieless processing. PostHog uses this technical information, a daily rotating server-side hash and hostname to calculate a daily identifier. This processes connection data; it is not a claim that no personal information is processed.
Daily unique-visitor figures are estimates. The identifier changes each day, so weekly and monthly reports can show page-view and provider-click totals but cannot reliably deduplicate different people across days. Different people can merge in a count and one person can count more than once. Geographic enrichment and IP-based bot enrichment are not available in this mode. Owner visits, tests and undetected automation may count; blockers and failed requests can reduce totals. Source categories describe a page entry, not a complete visitor journey.
Your choices and local browser storage
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control prevent this script from loading PostHog or sending new events. Temporary preview hostnames do not collect. You can also stop measurement with the control below, which saves only your choice in this browser. Reload after changing the setting. These choices do not necessarily stop separate Cloudflare services. Saved shortlists and checklist choices remain separate functional browser storage.
PostHog measurement is not activated.
Processing location, retention and access
Events are sent directly to PostHog's European Union service. PostHog receives technical connection information including IP address and browser information; processing and storage occur outside Australia. Access is through the operator's account, not a public analytics dashboard.
The current PostHog plan reports a 12-month default retention period. Automatic deletion after 12 months is not currently confirmed, so event records may be retained longer. Daily identifier rotation does not delete stored events. Retention is controlled in the operator’s PostHog account. See PostHog’s event-retention documentation. Missing or blocked events are not backfilled. See PostHog's privacy policy and cookieless measurement documentation.
Hosting and future changes
Cloudflare delivers and secures the website and receives technical request information such as IP addresses, browser headers, requested URLs and request times. Its hosting and security processing is separate from PostHog. Processing may occur outside Australia, and security functions may use essential cookies. The separate Cloudflare RUM disclosure below still applies.
This release does not display an analytics-cookie consent banner. No-banner design is not a universal exemption from applicable privacy and consent requirements. Any future advertising, contact forms or materially different tracking require an updated notice and any legally required choices before activation. Reviewed 11 November 2026.
Cloudflare browser performance and usage measurement
Cloudflare may automatically inject its Real User Monitoring (RUM) beacon into pages served through its network, depending on this site's account settings and the visitor's region. The beacon can support Web Analytics or Observatory performance measurement. It is separate from the PostHog measurement described above and does not use the PostHog settings. Cloudflare's current documentation says RUM can be enabled automatically on its free service. This notice does not confirm the dashboard settings or that a particular visit has been recorded.
When enabled, the beacon runs in the browser and sends Cloudflare page and performance information, including a per-page-load identifier, landing-page and referring-page URLs, load and rendering timings, and browser performance metrics. This hosting measurement can include full landing-page and referring-page URLs, rather than only broad source categories. Cloudflare says its RUM beacon does not read or write cookies or browser storage and does not persist an identifier to recognise a person across visits. A per-page-load identifier is not a count of unique people.
Cloudflare receives an IP address as part of delivering the beacon request. Its published RUM documentation says this address is discarded at the nearest Cloudflare data centre rather than stored in core RUM databases or logs. That statement concerns RUM only, not all hosting or security processing. Processing may occur outside Australia. See Cloudflare's RUM data and privacy documentation and Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Browser or network privacy tools may block the beacon, which can reduce reporting. This release does not provide a Cloudflare RUM opt-out control. Browser privacy preferences are not a guarantee that the hosting service's beacon is blocked. The operator can disable or change Cloudflare RUM through the hosting account. Cloudflare account-level traffic figures and RUM reports are separate hosting services and are not PostHog page-view or provider-click reports. The absence of analytics cookies is not a universal exemption from applicable privacy obligations.