thepetrolprice.com

Who we are

thepetrolprice.com is operated by Spherify Pty Ltd (ABN 91 675 450 718). This website provides fuel price calculators, market data, and educational content about Australian fuel pricing.

Information we collect

Information you provide

When you use our calculator, you may enter vehicle details and fuel prices. This data is stored locally in your browser (localStorage) for your convenience and is never sent to our servers.

Information collected automatically

We collect standard web analytics data through Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager), including:

• Pages visited and time spent
• Device type, browser, and operating system
• Approximate geographic location (city/region level)
• Referring website

This data is aggregated and cannot be used to personally identify you.

Cookies and advertising

We use cookies for:

• Google Analytics - to understand how visitors use our site
• Google AdSense - to display relevant advertisements. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ad Settings
• Google Tag Manager - to manage the above services

Third-party services

We use the following third-party services:

• Cloudflare - hosting and content delivery
• Google Analytics - website analytics
• Google AdSense - advertising
• Yahoo Finance - market data (oil prices, exchange rates)
• NSW FuelCheck API - fuel price data
• Australian Institute of Petroleum - historical wholesale price data

Each service has its own privacy policy governing how they handle data.

Data storage

Calculator inputs are stored in your browser's localStorage only. We do not store personal data on our servers. Market and fuel price data is cached on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

Your rights

You can clear your stored calculator data at any time by clearing your browser's localStorage. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Contact

For privacy-related enquiries, contact us at hello@thepetrolprice.com.