Your data
A name change touches some of your most sensitive details. We built Surname Switch to ask for as little as possible, keep almost nothing, and never trade in your information. Here is exactly how it works, in plain words.
The short version
Follow a single message from the moment you type to the moment it is gone.
Your account numbers and identity documents never enter this flow, because we never ask for them.
Our promises
In more detail
We only collect the small set of details needed to build your plan and write your messages. That is your current name, the surname you are moving to, the state or territory you live in, whether you were born in Australia, and the organisations you want to update. That is enough to tell you whether you need a legal change and to write a clear notification to each place.
When you ask us to write a message, your name and the organisation it is for are sent securely to our drafting service, which writes that one message and returns it to you. The drafting step is locked so it can only ever produce name change messages, and the details used to write it are not stored afterward. Your sensitive numbers stay with you the whole time.
Because we hold so little and clear it when you are done, there is rarely anything to retrieve or delete. If you ever want to know what we hold or ask us to remove it, you can contact us and we will sort it promptly.
This page describes how the product is designed to work. Our formal privacy policy will sit alongside it before launch and will be the binding version. We will keep this plain English page matched to it, because you deserve to understand it without a law degree.
Build your plan knowing your details are handled the way you would want your own to be.
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