Last updated 5 November 2026.
What we collect
- Your account: your name as other members see it, your email address, and anything you add to your profile later, such as your state, a bio or a photo. If you set a password it is stored scrambled and can never be read.
- About you (optional): an age range, gender and postcode, if you choose to give them. Only the site's administrators can see them, as totals to understand who the community is. They are never shown on your profile, and you can change or clear them any time on your account page.
- What you post: register entries, photos, build logs, forum posts and comments.
- Visit activity: when you were last here, how often you visit, the type of device and browser you use, and roughly how long you spend in each part of the site (for example the Register or the forum). Only the site's administrators can see it. It helps us see what's useful and look after the site, and it's deleted when you delete your account.
- Call-back requests: if you ask us to ring you, your name, phone number, a good time to call and what it's about. Only the site's administrators see it, and the phone number is deleted once we've rung you.
- Basic technical data: your IP address and browser, kept with your session for security and to stop spam.
Cars from John Powell's register
The Register includes cars recorded in the Australian National Triumph Stag Register, compiled by the late John Powell from owners and state registration records. Many owners didn't know they were listed. For those cars we publish only facts about the car (commission number, year, Mark, colours, gearbox, engine type and state). Owners' names, rego numbers, previous owners and histories from his records are stored encrypted, are never published, and are used only by moderators to check that someone claiming a car owns it. When you claim your car you can see what John recorded and choose what to add to its page. You can ask us to remove your car from the public Register, or to delete John's notes about you, through the contact form.
Who sees it
- Your email address is never shown to anyone. Moderators can see it to contact you about your account.
- Car pages show the state only, never a suburb or address. Rego is hidden unless you choose to show it. You choose whether your name appears on your cars.
- Previous owners and member profiles are visible to members only. Searching the Register by an owner's name is for signed-in members only, and even then shows the car, never the person. The For Sale section is public.
Photos
Location data and other hidden information (EXIF) is removed from every photo when it's uploaded. Photos used as proof of ownership in a Register claim are only seen by moderators and are deleted once the claim is decided.
Where it's kept, and who processes it
- Website and database: hosted in Sydney with Synergy Wholesale.
- Photos and downloads: stored on the same Sydney host as the website.
- Email: sent and received through our own mailbox at the same Sydney host.
- Automated moderation: the text of posts, comments and register entries (never the private owner details), photos, the name and email domain of new sign-ups, and reports are sent to Anthropic's Claude service to check for spam, scams and abuse, and to suggest which part of the forum a question belongs in. Ordinary sign-ups are let straight in; anything unusual waits for a person. Anthropic processes this in the United States. It is used only to give the moderation result, not to train models, under Anthropic's commercial terms.
- Emails to us: email to mail@triumphstag.info and messages from the contact page are read by Claude so they can be sorted: questions for owners are posted (only for members, from their own address), photos go on the sender's Stag, simple website questions get an automatic answer, and everything else goes to a person. The text is kept for a year so we can see what happened, then deleted. Attachments stay in the mailbox and are not stored by the site, except photos a member asks us to add.
- Number plates in photos: photos on the site are sent to Anthropic's Claude service to read any number plates, so a photo can be matched to the right car in the Register. Plates are kept privately and are never shown as text on the site; a photo only appears on a car's page once its owner (or an admin) says it's their car. Plates on cars that aren't Stags aren't kept.
- Visitor statistics: we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read, so we know what's useful. It sets cookies in your browser, and Google processes the information, which may be outside Australia. Google signals is switched on, which lets Google give us estimated totals such as visitors' age range, gender and general location, built from information Google already holds about people signed in to a Google account. We only ever see totals, never who anyone is. Ad personalisation stays off, and people signed in to this site, including its admins, aren't sent to Google Analytics at all. You can turn off Google's ad tracking at myadcenter.google.com.
- Spam protection: if it's switched on, the form for joining uses Cloudflare Turnstile.
Emails we send
Account emails (the gold sign-in button, password resets), replies to threads and cars you watch, and an optional monthly round-up, sent only when there's something new. Every non-essential email has a one-click unsubscribe. People who were on the old Stag email groups may also be on a short news list, which holds their email address and nothing else. It gets a few news emails a year, and every one has a one-click unsubscribe. We don't send marketing and we never sell your details, and we share them only with the service providers listed above.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account at any time from your account page. You choose whether your posts stay (shown as "Former member") or are removed. Cars stay in the Register, because the record belongs to the car, but your name is removed from them. Database backups are kept for 30 days and then deleted.
Questions or requests
Use the contact form and choose "Privacy". We answer within 48 hours.