Privacy Policy

Last updated: 24 January 2026

Privacy
This Privacy Policy sets out how hayleyhughes.au collects, uses, treats and discloses your personal information when you access and use hayleyhughes.au.

Hayleyhughes.au uses your personal information to provide and improve hayleyhughes.au. By accessing and using hayleyhughes.au, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Hayleyhughes.au adheres to the Australian Privacy Principles per the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

“Personal information” is information held which is identifiable to you.

Collection of Personal Information
Hayleyhughes.au receives and stores personal information you enter onto hayleyhughes.au, provided directly or given in other forms. Personal information may also be received from third parties.

You may provide information such as your first and last name and email address to enable response to a contact form submission or email. Hayleyhughes.au may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to feedback and any other information you provide during interaction. Personal information may also include, but is not limited to your usage data.

Usage data is collected automatically when accessing and using hayleyhughes.au.

For Website Visitors
Hayleyhughes.au is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information and usage data when you visit hayleyhughes.au, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address

Squarespace needs this data to run hayleyhughes.au, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

Cookies
Hayleyghughes.au uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace Uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, hayleyhughes.au’s hosting platform, to securely serve hayleyhughes.au to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on hayleyhughes.au, as described below, only when you acknowledge hayleyhughes.au’s cookie banner. Hayleyhughes.au uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Analytics 
Hayleyhughes.au collects personal information to power site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of hayleyhughes.au, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps

Hayleyghughes.au provides this information to Squarespace, hayleyhughes.au’s analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Form Block Submissions
When you submit information to hayleyhughes.au via webform, hayleyhughes.au collects the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submission. Hayleyhughes.au provides this information to Squarespace, hayleyhughes.au’s hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to hayleyhughes.au and help hayleyhughes.au manage its relationship with you. Hayleyhughes.au also provides this information to Gmail (hayleyhughesauthor@gmail.com) for storage.

Fonts
Hayleyhughes.au serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address

Share Buttons
Hayleyhughes.au may include share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from hayleyhughes.au to the third-party services including but not limited to: Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address

Third-Party Websites and Links
Hayleyhughes.au features links to other third-party websites not owned, operated or controlled by hayleyhughes.au. These links are provided for your convenience only. Links to third-party websites do not constitute endorsement or approval of these websites. Hayleyhughes.au is not responsible for the privacy practices and or security of other websites. If you click on a third-party link you will be directed to that third-party’s website. It is strongly advised that you review the privacy statements of each third-party website prior to leaving hayleyhughes.au.

For more information about website terms, please also read the Website Terms and Conditions of Use below.

Use of Personal Information
Hayleyhughes.au may use personal information provided by and collected from you to provide you with information, updates, products and services via response to your visitor initiated contact submission form or direct email. Your personal information may also be used to improve hayleyhughes.au’s offering.

Hayleyhughes.au may contact you via the email address you provide via a contact submission form or direct email for the purpose of attending/responding to and managing your contact request.

Retention of Personal Information
Hayleyhughes.au will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Hayleyhughes.au will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce legal agreements and policies. Hayleyhughes.au will also retain usage data for analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen security or improve functionality of hayleyhughes.au, or hayleyhughes.au is legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods. 

Disclosure of Personal Information
Hayleyhughes.au may disclose your personal information to any officers, insurers, advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of information, products or services.

Hayleyhughes.au may need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.

Hayleyhughes.au may use your personal information to protect the copyright and legal rights of hayleyhughes.au, its customers or third parties.

Information collected may be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside of Australia. Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that storage and transfer. Please also refer Squarespace polices.

By providing your personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy.

Security of Personal Information
To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, suitable physical, electronic and information management procedures are in place to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access and disclosure.

However, no method of internet transmission or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While hayleyhughes.au strives to use commercially reasonable means to protect your personal information, hayleyhughes.au cannot guarantee its absolute security. Therefore, the exchange and transmission of your personal information is carried out at your own risk.

Hayleyhughes.au cannot guarantee or assure that the security of any personal information transmitted, collected or received to/via/from hayleyhughes.au will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

Access to Personal Information
You may request details of personal information held about you in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Privacy contact details included below.  

Privacy Complaints
Privacy complaints can be provided via email to hayleyhughesauthor@gmail.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
Hayleyghughes.au may change, modify or update this Privacy Policy as required, at any time and at sole discretion. All modifications will be effective immediately upon posting on hayleyhughes.au. Please review this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Privacy contact: Hayley Hughes: hayleyhughesauthor@gmail.com

Website Terms and Conditions of Use

Last updated: 24 January 2026

Acknowledgement
These are the Terms and Conditions governing the use of haylehughes.au. These Terms and Conditions set out the rights and obligations of all users of hayleyhughes.au.

Your access to and use of hayleyhughes.au is conditioned on your acceptance and compliance with these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions apply to all visitors, users and others who access hayleyghughes.au.

By accessing and using hayleyhughes.au you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you disagree with any part of these Terms and Conditions, you may not access or use hayleyhughes.au.

You represent that you are over the age of 18. Hayleyhughes.au does not permit those under 18 to access or use hayleyghughes.au.

It is important you read these Terms and Conditions carefully prior to accessing or using hayleyhughes.au. Your access to and use of hayleyhughes.au is also conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with hayleyhughes.au’s Privacy Policy.

Accessing hayleyhughes.au signifies you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy and all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with the Terms, you must immediately cease usage of hayleyhughes.au.

Hayleyhughes.au reserves the right to review and change any of the Terms by updating this page any time. Any changes to the Terms take immediate effect.

About hayleyhughes.au
Hayleyhughes.au provides you with access to content, products, services and information relating to books by Hayley Hughes.

Squarespace hosts hayleyhughes.au. Squarespace provides hosting services, but hayleyhughes.au is responsible for hayleyhughes.au’s content and user interactions.

Hayleyhughes.au is operated by Hayley Hughes, ABN 19 459 380 260.

Acceptance of the Terms
You accept the Terms by continuing to access and use hayleyhughes.au.

Links to Third-Party/Other Websites
Hayleyhughes.au contains links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by hayleyhughes.au.

Hayleyhughes.au has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that hayleyhughes.au shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, products, information or services available on or through any such websites or services.

You are strongly advised to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that you visit.

Purchases
Hayleyhughes.au does not offer a direct purchase function. Hayleyhughes.au provides links to purchase options via third-party websites and suppliers. Users are instructed to review the terms, conditions and policies for each external website/supplier/purchase option. 

Hayley Hughes does not offer refunds or returns for purchases made through third-party services/suppliers. Purchases made via external third-party suppliers remain a transaction between you, the user and the supplier. 

Limitation of Liability
You expressly understand and agree that to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall hayleyhughes.au be liable for any special, incidental, indirect or consequential loss or damages incurred by you whatsoever, however caused.

Hayley Hughes’s total liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms, however arising, will not exceed $0.00. This includes, but is not limited to, any loss of profit, data or other information, goodwill, reputation, privacy and any other intangible loss, and/or personal injury or business interruption arising out of or in any way related to the use or inability to use hayleyhughes.au.

Hayley Hughes is not responsible or liable in any way for any site content posted on hayleyhughes.au or in connection with hayleyhughes.au and related products, posted/caused by users of hayleyhughes.au or by third parties.

Hayley Hughes makes no express or implied representation or warranty about its content or related products referred to on hayleyhughes.au. This includes but is not restricted to loss or damage you might suffer as a result of: failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or other harmful component, loss of data, unlawful third-party conduct, theft, destruction, alteration or unauthorised access to information; the accuracy, suitability or currency of any information on hayleyhughes.au or its related products (including third-party material and advertisements); costs incurred as a result of accessing and or using hayleyhughes.au and or related products; the content or operation of links provided; loss arising from e-commerce transacted via a third-party website link; or defamatory, threatening, offensive or unlawful conduct of third parties.

“As Is” and “As Available” Disclaimer
Hayleyhughes.au is provided to you “as is’ and “as available” and with all faults and defects, without warranty of any kind. Hayleyhughes.au is not responsible for damages arising from your use of hayleyhughes.au or related products, information or services, nor for third-party links or content. Your use of hayleyhughes.au and its content is at your own risk.

Hayleyhughes.au does not guarantee results or business or personal success from the information featured on hayleyhughes.au. No information, obtained by you from hayleyhughes.au, creates any warranty. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, hayleyghughes.au expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the content/products/services/information, including all implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance or usage.

Hayleyhughes.au provides no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied as to the operation or availablity of hayleyghughes.au or that the information, content, services or products included thereon will meet your requirements or expectations, achieve any intended results, meet any performance or reliablity standard, be uninterrupted or error free, or is free from viruses or other harmful components.

The exclusions and limitations set forth in this section shall be applied to the greatest extent enforceable under applicable law (which may vary for some jurisdictions).

Copyright and Intellectual Property
Hayleyhughes.au and all related products are subject to copyright. The contents of hayleyhughes.au and all related products by Hayley Hughes are protected by copyright under Australian laws. All rights (including copyright) in hayleyhughes.au and Thank You, Burnout are owned or controlled, and reserved by Hayley Hughes.

Hayley Hughes retains all rights, title and interest in and to hayleyhughes.au and all related content and products.

You may not broadcast, republish, upload, transmit, post, distribute, publicly show/play, adapt or change in any way the content or third-party content for any purpose without express written consent (excluding materials in the public domain).

Disputes Resolution
If you have concerns or a dispute relating to hayleyhughes.au, you agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting hayleyhughes.au in writing.

Jurisdiction and Governing Law
Hayleyhughes.au is intended to be viewed by residents of Australia. In the event of any dispute arising out of or in relation to hayleyhughes.au, you agree that the venue for resolving any dispute (if unable to resolve informally) will be in Queensland, Australia.

Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions Terms will remain and continue in force and effect.

Changes
Hayley Hughes reserves the right to make changes, corrections and improvements to hayleyhughes.au, and to the products featured at any time and without notice.

By continuing to use or access hayleyhughes.au after any modifications come into effect, you agree to be bound by the modified Terms. If you disagree with the changes, then you must stop using hayleyhughes.au.

Contact
For questions about these Terms and Conditions please contact hayleyhughesauthor@gmail.com.

Disclaimer

Please always consult a qualified medical professional for the management of your health and wellbeing. No ideas, words, phrases or concepts throughout Thank You, Burnout and/or hayleyhughes.au offer or serve as medical or life advice. The author is not a medical professional or authority of any sort, and Thank You, Burnout and/or hayleyhughes.au is not intended as a substitute for diagnosis or treatment. Thank You, Burnout contains descriptions of sensitive topics related to mental distress. These topics may be triggering or distressing for some readers. If you or someone you know is experiencing mental health difficulties, please seek medical support.