Terms of Use & Privacy Policy
Last updated: 28 May 2026
1. General Disclaimer
ImmiTrend is an independent, community-driven platform. It is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Australian Government, the Department of Home Affairs, or any official government body. All information on this platform is provided for general informational and reference purposes only.
2. Data Sources
The data displayed on ImmiTrend is sourced from publicly available government datasets, including the SkillSelect EOI data dashboard and published invitation round results. While we strive to present this data accurately, it may contain errors, omissions, or delays in updates. Data may not reflect the most current state of the immigration system. Processing times, point thresholds, and invitation patterns can change without notice.
3. Not Professional Advice
Nothing on this platform constitutes immigration advice, legal advice, or professional consultation of any kind. The information provided should NOT be used as a substitute for advice from a registered migration agent (MARA), immigration lawyer, or other qualified professional. Immigration decisions involve complex legal requirements and individual circumstances. Always consult a qualified professional before making any immigration-related decisions.
4. Wait Estimates Are Predictions, Not Guarantees
Features such as the My Journey tracker, wait-time estimates, invitation likelihood, queue position, and cutoff trends are statistical models derived from historical public data. They are forecasts, NOT guarantees that an invitation will be issued by a particular date or at a particular points level. Actual invitation outcomes depend on factors outside our model — including but not limited to: occupation ceilings being reached, ministerial program changes, ANZSCO list updates, mid-year quota adjustments, state nomination allocations, and the discretionary nature of state-nominated subclasses. You should not make irrevocable decisions (resigning, leasing, relocating, refusing other visa pathways) based solely on these estimates.
5. No Guarantee of Accuracy
While we make reasonable efforts to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, or suitability of the information. Any reliance you place on the information provided by ImmiTrend is strictly at your own risk.
6. User Responsibility
Users are solely responsible for verifying any information obtained from this platform against official government sources before making decisions. Official information can be found at homeaffairs.gov.au and the SkillSelect portal. How liability is handled — including the rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law — is set out in the “Limitation of Liability & Your Consumer Rights” section below.
7. Limitation of Liability & Your Consumer Rights
ImmiTrend is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, and to the maximum extent permitted by law we exclude all liability for any loss or damage — whether direct, indirect, incidental or consequential — arising from your use of, or reliance on, the platform or any information on it. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy you may have under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where our liability for failing to comply with such a guarantee can be limited (but not excluded), our liability is limited — at our option — to re-supplying the relevant service or paying the cost of having it re-supplied. This applies to both the free and paid plans; if you are a consumer, your non-excludable rights under the ACL are unaffected by anything in these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
The platform's design, code, and original content are the property of ImmiTrend. Government data displayed on this platform remains in the public domain as published by the respective government agencies. ImmiTrend is an open-source community project.
9. Privacy Policy
This policy describes what we collect, why, who we share it with, and how to control or delete it. It is governed by the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). — What we collect — • Account: email address, name (optional), password (stored as a one-way hash — we never see your password), email-verification status. • Saved scenarios (dashboard): the migration scenarios you choose to save — occupation (ANZSCO code + title), visa subclass (189 / 190 / 491), points score, Date of Effect (DOE), and nominating state. • Migration profile (the Profile page — every field is optional and you can leave anything blank): personal and points inputs (age, English level, education level, years of Australian and overseas work experience, and study / NAATI / professional-year bonuses), the resulting per-criterion points breakdown and your 189 / 190 / 491 totals; targeting (primary occupation, primary subclass, and target states for 190 and 491); demographic details (whether you are onshore, citizenship, current state of residence, designated-regional-area residence, months of residence in Australia, and whether you currently work in your nominated occupation); partner details (partner status, partner's occupation, partner skill points); and a self-attested skill-assessment milestone. • Salary (optional): if you enter an annual salary it is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM — stored as ciphertext with a fresh random value per save, never as plaintext — so a leaked database dump alone cannot reveal it. It defaults to private and is used only in your own salary-versus-cohort comparison unless you explicitly choose to show it on your profile card. • Profile visibility and sharing: the partner, demographic, and salary sections each have their own public / private toggle, and everything defaults to private. Today your profile is visible only to you, and you may download a shareable image of your own profile card. These toggles govern what would appear if and when we launch a public profile card — no section is ever shown publicly unless you have switched it to public. • Cached intelligence: per-saved-scenario snapshots of public EOI data (queue size, cutoff history, percentile, modelled wait estimate) — generated from public government data, attached to your saved scenario for performance. • Communication preferences: master email toggle, round-alert subscriptions, weekly-digest opt-in, per-scenario alert flags. • Billing (paid plans only): Stripe customer ID, subscription status, credit balance, transaction history. Card numbers are stored by Stripe, never by us. • Anonymous usage: hashed IP addresses for free-tier rate-limiting. We do not store raw IPs. • AI consultant conversations: the messages you send to and receive from the AI consultant (including when you are not logged in) are stored to operate and improve the service. Raw conversation text is retained for 180 days and then removed; we keep only an anonymized topic category for long-term trend analysis. — Why we collect it — Your saved scenarios and migration profile power the My Journey tracker, score-checking, the saved-occupations dashboard, personalized pathway comparisons and recommendations, your downloadable profile card, and email alerts you opt into. Cached snapshots make the dashboard fast. We may show advertising in the future to support the platform; if and when that happens, we will update this policy, list any new advertising subprocessors below, and disclose what (if any) data is shared with them. — Who we share it with (subprocessors) — We do not sell or rent your personal data. Limited data is processed by the following categories of vendors strictly to operate the platform: • Hosting and database providers (United States) — to run the website and store your account, saved scenarios, and email preferences. • Email delivery service (United States) — to send you transactional and alert emails. They receive your email address. • Stripe (United States, Australia) — payment processing for paid plans. Card details are entered into Stripe directly and we never see them. • AI model provider (Google, United States) — powers the AI consultant and processes your conversation text (including for anonymous users) to generate responses and to classify question topics. Google receives the message text you send to the consultant. Each vendor has its own privacy policy. The current list of named vendors is available on request via the support link. — Data retention & deletion — Saved scenarios stay in your account until you remove them via the Edit popover (Remove this scenario) on the dashboard, or until your account is deleted. Your migration profile — including any encrypted salary — is editable at any time on the Profile page and is removed when your account is deleted. Email-send logs are retained for 30 days for rate-limit accounting, then aggregated. To delete your account and all associated data, contact us via the support link in the footer; we will action requests within 30 days. — Your rights (under the Australian Privacy Principles) — You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, correct it, request deletion, and object to its processing. Most of these are available directly in-product (the Edit / Remove controls on each saved scenario, the per-section edit and public / private toggles on your Profile page, the email-preferences page, the Account page). For requests we cannot fulfil through the product, contact us via the support link. — Data security — We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect your information: passwords are stored only as a one-way hash, any salary you enter is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, access to the production database is restricted, and data is transmitted over encrypted (HTTPS/TLS) connections. No method of storage or transmission is ever completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a data breach likely to result in serious harm, we will notify affected users and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in line with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme under the Privacy Act 1988. — Complaints — If you believe we have mishandled your personal information, please contact us first via the support link in the footer; we will investigate and respond, ordinarily within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au or by phone on 1300 363 992. — International users — The service is hosted in the United States. By using ImmiTrend you consent to your data being processed in the United States. We apply the same controls regardless of your country.
10. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and ImmiTrend submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia. If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision is severed and the remaining provisions continue in full force.
11. Changes to These Terms
We reserve the right to update these terms at any time. Material changes — particularly to the Privacy Policy section — will be reflected in the “Last updated” date at the top of this page, and where appropriate we will notify signed-in users by email or an in-product banner. Continued use of the platform after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.