Cookie Policy
Effective date: 16 September 2026
This site sets no cookies. That is the whole policy; the rest of this page explains what it means and what happens instead.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and send back on later requests. Cookies let a site, or a third party embedded in it, recognise a browser across pages and across visits — which is what makes them useful for logins and shopping baskets, and what makes them useful for tracking.
2. This site sets none
Prospect Network sets no cookies of its own, and permits no third party to set a cookie through it. There is no analytics package, no advertising tag, no conversion pixel, no A/B testing tool, no heat-mapping tool, no social media embed, no video embed, no chat widget and no session identifier, because there is nothing on this site that would need one: no login, no basket, no form, no preference to remember.
Because no cookies are set and no tracking takes place, there is no consent banner on this site. That is deliberate. A banner asking permission for cookies that do not exist would be a false statement about our own site, and we would rather have nothing to ask about than ask about nothing.
We also do not list cookie names here, because listing a cookie that is not set would be exactly the same kind of false statement. If you inspect this site with your browser's developer tools, the cookie store for this domain will be empty.
3. What happens instead
Two things happen when you read a page here, and neither involves a cookie:
- Your browser requests files from this domain. The page, one stylesheet and one small script, all served from prospectnetwork.online. Our hosting provider records an ordinary server log entry for each request — IP address, user agent, requested address, referring address if sent, and a timestamp — which is kept for a maximum of 30 days for security and diagnostics. This is described in the privacy policy.
- Nothing is requested from anywhere else. This site loads no external fonts, no external scripts, no external stylesheets and no external images. There is no request to a content delivery network, no font service and no third-party host of any kind. Your browser contacts this domain and no other while reading these pages.
If you follow a link from this site to another website — a vendor, or an Australian government body — you are then on their site, and their cookie practices and privacy policy apply from that point. We have no control over and no visibility of what another site does.
4. No browser storage, no fingerprinting
The site does not use localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB or any other browser storage mechanism. It does not attempt to fingerprint your browser or device — no canvas fingerprinting, no font enumeration, no device identifiers. The only script on the site handles the mobile menu, the navigation dropdown and the expandable questions on one guide page; it is served from this domain, unminified and readable, and it stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere.
5. Controlling cookies in your browser anyway
Every current browser lets you see which sites have stored cookies, delete them individually or in bulk, and block them — either generally or for specific sites. The controls are usually under privacy or site settings, and most browsers also offer a private browsing mode that discards cookies and site data when the window closes. Blocking cookies has no effect on this site, because there are none to block, but it is worth knowing where those controls are for the rest of the web.
6. If this ever changes
If we ever introduce a cookie, an analytics tool, an embedded third-party component or an external font, this page will be updated to describe exactly what is set and why, the privacy policy will be updated in the same change, and a working consent mechanism will be in place before the first cookie is set. The effective date at the top of this page will change on the day it happens. We will not add tracking quietly and describe it afterwards.