Your data

Your information, handled with care

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

Where your data goes

Follow a single message from the moment you type to the moment it is gone.

You typeYour name change and the places to update, in your browser.
We draftYour name and one organisation are used to write that single message.
It is goneThe message comes back to you. Nothing from it is stored.

Your account numbers and identity documents never enter this flow, because we never ask for them.

Our promises

Five things we commit to

In more detail

What we collect, and why

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.

What we deliberately do not collect

How the drafting works

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.

Your rights

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.

One honest note

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.

Care you can see

Build your plan knowing your details are handled the way you would want your own to be.

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