Privacy Policy

Last updated: January, 2025

Effective date: January, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Community Fly Fishing (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and safeguards personal information. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions. If you are visually impaired, you may contact us at communityflyfishing@gmail.com and request that we read the notice to you.

Types of Information We Collect

The following provides examples of the type of information that we collect from you and how we use that information.

General Contact Inquiries

We collect your name and contact information such as your name, email address, and user-generated messages.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data: We use the information you provided to respond to inquiries, or to reach out to you for customer service purposes.
We may participate in behavior-based advertising, this means that a third party uses technology (e.g., a cookie) to collect information about your use of our website so that they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests on our website, or on other websites.
Mobile Devices
- We collect information from your mobile device such as unique identifying information broadcast from your device when visiting our website.
- Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data: We use this information to identify unique visitors, and to understand how users interact with us on their mobile devices.

Surveys

When you participate in a survey, we collect information that you provide through the survey. If the survey is provided by a third party service provider, in some instances, the third party’s privacy policy applies to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data: We use this information to understand your opinions and collect information relevant to our organization.

Website Interactions

We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device or browser.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data: We use this information to aid our understanding of how you interact with our website to better improve it, and to understand your preferences and interests in order to select offerings that you might find most useful. We also use this information to detect and prevent fraud.

Website Logs

We collect information, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when the Internet is used), domain name, click-activity, referring website, and/or a date/time stamp for visitors.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data: We use this information to monitor our networks and the visitors to our websites. Among other things, it helps us understand which of our web services or features is the most popular.

USE AND PROCESSING OF INFORMATION

In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways:

To identify you when you visit our websites or our stores.
To improve our services
To conduct analytics.
To respond to inquiries related to partnership, support, employment opportunities, or other requests.
To send marketing and promotional materials, including information relating to our products, services, sales, or promotions.
For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.

COOKIES

What are cookies? A cookie is a small file placed onto your device that enables a variety of features and functionality. Cookies also enable you to easily share content and help us serve relevant ads to you. Cookies can do this because websites can read and write them, enabling websites to recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (for example by remembering preference settings). We use cookies and other similar technologies to ensure everyone who uses our website has the best possible experience and for marketing purposes.

HOW WE PROTECT AND RETAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

We retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The following additional information relates to our privacy practices:

Transmission of Information to Other Countries. Your information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By submitting your personal information to us you agree to the transfer, storage and processing of your information in a country other than your country of residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States.
Third-Party Applications / Websites. We have no control over the privacy practices of websites or applications that we do not own.
Changes to This Privacy Policy. We may change our privacy policy and practices over time. To the extent that our policy changes in a material way, the policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new privacy policy. Our privacy policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date. The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified.
Accessibility. If you are visually impaired, you contact us at communityflyfishing@gmail.com and request that we read the notice to you.