Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Account and profile information

When you create or use a FishHawk account, we may collect information such as:

• Your email address
• Your name, display name, and username
• Your profile photo, profile banner, biography, and other profile information
• Your account settings and notification preferences
• Authentication credentials and related sign-in, security, and session information
• Your subscription or premium-access status

User-generated content and social activity

FishHawk allows users to create profiles, log catches, publish posts, and interact with other users. We collect and store information that you submit or generate through these features, including:

• Catches, posts, captions, comments, and replies
• Photos and videos
• Species, weight, length, fishing method, water body, date, time, and other catch details
• Weather information associated with a catch
• Locations that you choose to associate with catches or posts
• Likes, follows, mentions, hashtags, blocks, and reports
• Information about your interactions with other users and content
• Location-visibility and content-privacy selections

Information you publish may be visible to other FishHawk users or the public, depending on the applicable feature and the privacy options you select.

Location and map information

FishHawk processes different kinds of location information to provide maps, waypoints, routes, and marine forecasts. Location information may include:

• Your device’s current location when you grant location permission
• Coordinates for locations you select manually on a map
• Saved waypoint coordinates and related waypoint information
• Saved forecast locations
• Locations you associate with catches or posts
• Location updates generated while an active route is running

The way FishHawk uses each type of location information is explained in Section 2.

Subscription and purchase information

FishHawk purchases and subscriptions are processed by Apple through the App Store.

Apple may provide FishHawk with information needed to verify and manage your access, such as:

• The product or subscription purchased
• Transaction and purchase identifiers
• Purchase, renewal, and expiration dates
• Subscription status
• Trial or introductory-offer status
• Receipt or entitlement information

FishHawk does not receive or store your full payment-card number.

Push-notification information

When you enable push notifications, FishHawk and its notification providers may process:

• Your device’s push-notification token
• An internal FishHawk account or user identifier
• Your notification preferences
• Information about which notifications were sent, delivered, opened, or otherwise interacted with

You can disable push notifications or change FishHawk’s notification permissions through your device settings.

Communications, support, suggestions, and moderation

We collect information you provide when you:

• Contact FishHawk support
• Submit feedback or product suggestions
• Suggest a species or water body
• Report content or another user
• Appeal or respond to a moderation decision
• Communicate with us by email or through the app

This information may include your email address, account identifier, message contents, attachments, selected location information, and information about the relevant content or user.

Analytics and app-usage information

FishHawk uses Amplitude to understand how users interact with the app and to evaluate and improve FishHawk’s features.

Depending on FishHawk’s Amplitude configuration and the events generated by your use of the app, analytics information may include:

• App launches and sessions
• Screens or features used
• Buttons, tabs, and other in-app actions
• Session duration and general engagement information
• App version and build number
• Device model and operating-system version
• Language, time zone, and general device settings
• An internal FishHawk user identifier
• A device, installation, or analytics identifier
• IP address
• Approximate city, region, or country inferred from an IP address

FishHawk uses Amplitude for its own product analytics and app improvement. We do not use Amplitude to serve third-party behavioral advertising or track you across unrelated companies’ apps or websites.

Crash and diagnostic information

FishHawk uses Sentry to identify, investigate, and resolve crashes, errors, app hangs, and other technical problems.

Depending on the type of failure and FishHawk’s Sentry configuration, diagnostic information may include:

• Crash reports
• Stack traces
• Error messages
• App-hang and termination information
• App version and build number
• Device model and operating-system version
• The date and time of an error
• Limited technical context about the app’s state before an error occurred
• Diagnostic breadcrumbs describing actions or technical events leading up to a failure
• An internal FishHawk user identifier, if associated with the diagnostic report

FishHawk uses Sentry for troubleshooting, reliability, security, and app functionality—not advertising.

Device, server, and security information

FishHawk and its service providers may automatically collect limited technical information needed to operate, secure, and troubleshoot the Services, such as:

• IP address
• Device type
• Operating-system version
• FishHawk app version
• Language and time-zone settings
• Network and server request information
• Request dates and times
• Authentication and security logs
• Error and diagnostic records
• Information used to detect abuse, fraud, or unauthorized access

2. How FishHawk Uses Location Information

Current device location and map positioning

With your permission, FishHawk may access your device’s current location to:

• Display your current position on the map
• Show your position relative to waypoints
• Request a marine or weather forecast for your current location
• Provide position and progress updates while an active route is running

FishHawk requests location permission through iOS. You can control location access and the iOS Precise Location setting through your device settings.

Current-location forecasts

You can request a marine or weather forecast using your device’s current location.

When you select this option, FishHawk uses your current coordinates to obtain forecast information from providers such as Apple WeatherKit and Stormglass.

FishHawk does not:

• Retain the device location used for a one-time current-location forecast as part of your FishHawk account after the request is completed
• Automatically add the location to your saved forecast locations

The coordinates required to provide the forecast are transmitted to the applicable forecast provider. Those providers may process request information under their respective terms and privacy practices.

Manually selected forecast locations

You can manually select a forecast location without using your device’s current location.

A manually selected forecast location represents a point you chose on the map or through a location-search feature. It does not necessarily represent your current physical location.

Saved forecast locations

You may intentionally save a selected forecast location for later use.

FishHawk retains saved forecast locations and their associated coordinates so they remain available through your account. They remain stored until you remove them, delete your account, or they are otherwise removed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Using your current location for a one-time forecast does not automatically save that location.

Waypoints and selected map locations

You may create a waypoint by selecting a coordinate on the map, including by:

• Long-pressing a location on the map
• Using the Add Waypoint feature
• Selecting or positioning a point through another waypoint tool

A waypoint may identify an exact map coordinate, but it does not necessarily represent your current physical location. For example, you may create a waypoint at a fishing location, marina, structure, hazard, destination, or other point located far from you.

FishHawk retains saved waypoint coordinates and related waypoint information so that your waypoints remain available to you. Saved waypoints remain stored until you delete them, delete your account, or they are otherwise removed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Locations associated with catches and posts

You may choose to associate a location, map coordinate, water body, or other location information with a catch or post.

A location selected for content does not necessarily represent your current device location.

FishHawk may provide location-privacy options that allow you to control whether a location is:

• Displayed exactly
• Generalized or blurred
• Identified only by a broader place or water body
• Kept private

The information displayed to other users depends on the privacy selection you make and the functionality of the applicable feature.

You should review your location-privacy selection before publishing a catch or post.

Active routes and background location

When you start an active route, FishHawk may continue receiving your device’s location while the app is in the background.

Background location allows FishHawk to continue updating your:

• Current position
• Position relative to the route
• Route progress
• Navigation-related information

This may occur while another app is displayed or while your device is locked.

FishHawk uses background location only while a user-initiated active route is running. FishHawk does not intentionally access your location in the background at other times.

Background location use ends when the active route is stopped, completed, or otherwise no longer running.

Location controls

You can change FishHawk’s location permission, including access to precise location, through the iOS Settings app.

Disabling location access may prevent or limit:

• Current-position display
• Current-location forecasts
• Position updates during active routes
• Other features that require your device’s current position

You may still be able to manually select waypoints, forecast locations, and content locations without granting access to your current device location.

FishHawk does not use precise device location for third-party behavioral advertising.

3. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

• Create, authenticate, maintain, and secure your account
• Operate FishHawk’s social and fishing-related features
• Display profiles and user-generated content
• Provide maps, waypoints, active routes, marine forecasts, and weather information
• Save your preferences, waypoints, and forecast locations
• Personalize content based on your settings, follows, and app activity
• Process and verify purchases, subscriptions, and premium access
• Send sign-in codes, security notices, account notices, and support communications
• Deliver push notifications according to your preferences
• Analyze how users interact with FishHawk
• Measure feature usage and improve the app’s design and functionality
• Detect, investigate, reproduce, and resolve crashes and technical problems
• Respond to support requests, suggestions, and feedback
• Moderate content and enforce our terms, policies, and community standards
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, spam, security incidents, and unauthorized activity
• Protect the rights, safety, and property of FishHawk, our users, and others
• Comply with applicable laws and lawful requests

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

Other users and the public

Your profile, username, profile media, catches, posts, comments, likes, follows, and other social activity may be visible to other FishHawk users or the public.

Location information attached to content may also be visible depending on the location-privacy setting you select.

Information you publish may be copied, saved, photographed, or shared by other people outside FishHawk. FishHawk cannot control information after another person has independently copied or shared it.

Service providers

FishHawk uses third-party providers to operate, support, secure, and improve the Services. Depending on the feature you use, these providers may receive or process information needed to provide their services.

Apple

Apple processes App Store purchases and subscriptions, provides Apple Push Notification service, and provides forecast information through WeatherKit.

Coordinates may be sent to WeatherKit when necessary to provide a forecast for a current or manually selected location.

Stormglass

Stormglass provides weather and marine-forecast information. Coordinates for a current or manually selected forecast location may be sent to Stormglass to obtain the requested forecast.

Mapbox

Mapbox provides FishHawk’s map and location technology. Depending on FishHawk’s SDK configuration and the map features used, Mapbox may process limited device, request, usage, map, or location-related information.

Amplitude

Amplitude provides product-analytics services. Amplitude may process app-usage events, session information, internal identifiers, device and app information, IP addresses, and approximate location information inferred from an IP address, depending on FishHawk’s configuration.

FishHawk uses Amplitude to understand and improve FishHawk—not for third-party behavioral advertising.

Sentry

Sentry provides crash-reporting and diagnostic services. Sentry may process crash reports, errors, stack traces, app and device details, and limited diagnostic context needed to identify and resolve technical failures.

FishHawk uses Sentry for reliability, security, and app functionality—not advertising.

OneSignal

OneSignal helps FishHawk deliver and manage push notifications. OneSignal may process push-notification identifiers, internal user identifiers, information about notifications sent, and notification-delivery or interaction information.

Postmark

Postmark helps FishHawk deliver transactional and service-related emails, including sign-in codes, security messages, and account communications. Postmark may process your email address, message contents, and technical email-delivery information.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare provides infrastructure, content-delivery, security, and object-storage services. FishHawk uses Cloudflare R2 and related Cloudflare services to store or deliver user-uploaded photos, videos, profile media, and other files.

FishHawk may also use database, hosting, security, monitoring, customer-support, and other technical providers as reasonably necessary to operate the Services.

Third-party providers process information under their applicable agreements, service terms, and privacy practices.

Legal, safety, and enforcement disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to:

• Comply with a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or other lawful process
• Respond to a valid request from law enforcement or another government authority
• Protect the safety, rights, or property of FishHawk, our users, or others
• Detect, investigate, or prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents
• Investigate or enforce violations of our terms or community standards
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

Business transfers

If FishHawk is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction.

With your direction or consent

We may disclose information when you direct us to do so or provide consent for a particular disclosure.

5. No Sale or Behavioral-Advertising Sharing

FishHawk does not sell or rent your personal information.

FishHawk does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or allow third parties to use FishHawk information to advertise to you across unrelated apps or websites.

FishHawk does not use precise device location for advertising.

Amplitude and Sentry are used for FishHawk’s own analytics, reliability, security, and product-improvement purposes—not third-party advertising.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable law requires us to identify a legal basis, we process personal information under one or more of the following bases:

Performance of a contract

Processing may be necessary to:

• Create and operate your account
• Provide the features you request
• Publish or display your content
• Provide forecasts, maps, waypoints, and routes
• Verify purchases and subscription access

Consent

We may rely on your consent for:

• Device-location access
• Precise-location access
• Background-location access
• Push notifications
• Other optional permissions or processing where consent is required

You may withdraw permission through your device or account settings. Withdrawal does not affect processing completed before permission was withdrawn.

Legitimate interests

We may process information for legitimate interests such as:

• Securing and improving the Services
• Understanding feature usage
• Diagnosing crashes and errors
• Preventing fraud and abuse
• Moderating content
• Providing user support
• Protecting FishHawk and its users

We rely on legitimate interests only where those interests are not overridden by applicable privacy rights.

Legal obligations

We may process or retain information when necessary to comply with law, legal process, accounting requirements, tax requirements, or valid government requests.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Services, maintaining security, resolving disputes, preventing abuse, and complying with legal obligations.

In general:

• Account and profile information is retained while your account remains active.
• User-generated content is retained until you delete it, delete your account, or it is removed under our moderation processes.
• Saved waypoints and their coordinates are retained until you delete them or delete your account.
• Saved forecast locations are retained until you remove them or delete your account.
• A device location used for a one-time current-location forecast is not retained by FishHawk as part of your account after the request is completed and is not automatically saved as a forecast location.
• Location is accessed in the background only while an active route is running.
• Purchase and subscription records may be retained as necessary for subscription verification, accounting, fraud prevention, and legal compliance.
• Support, moderation, safety, and security records may be retained for a reasonable period to resolve disputes, enforce rules, protect users, and prevent repeated abuse.
• Analytics information is retained according to FishHawk’s configured Amplitude retention settings and for as long as reasonably necessary to understand and improve the Services.
• Crash and diagnostic information is retained according to FishHawk’s configured Sentry retention settings and for as long as reasonably necessary to investigate and resolve technical problems.

After information is deleted from active systems, some copies may temporarily remain in restricted backups, caches, or logs until those systems are overwritten through their normal retention cycles.

We may retain information when required or permitted by law or when reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

We may retain aggregated or de-identified information that can no longer reasonably identify you.

Third-party providers may retain information according to their own agreements, legal obligations, and privacy practices.

8. Your Choices and Controls

Account and profile information

You can review and update much of your profile and account information through FishHawk.

Content

You can edit or delete eligible catches, posts, comments, waypoints, saved forecast locations, and other content through the applicable FishHawk controls.

Location permissions

You can control whether FishHawk may access your current location through the iOS Settings app.

You can also control whether FishHawk receives precise or approximate device location.

Disabling location access does not necessarily prevent you from manually selecting a location or waypoint on the map.

Content location privacy

Where FishHawk provides location-privacy options, you can choose how the location associated with your catch or post is displayed.

You should review this selection before publishing location-related content.

Background location

FishHawk uses background location only while an active route is running. You can end background location use by stopping the route or disabling FishHawk’s location access through your device settings.

Push notifications

You can manage individual FishHawk notification categories within the app.

You can disable all FishHawk push notifications through your iOS notification settings.

Subscriptions

You can manage or cancel an auto-renewable FishHawk subscription through your Apple subscription settings.

Deleting the FishHawk app or deleting your FishHawk account does not automatically cancel an Apple-managed subscription.

Service communications

FishHawk may send communications necessary to provide or secure your account, including:

• Sign-in codes
• Security alerts
• Account notices
• Subscription or purchase notices
• Responses to support requests

These operational communications may be required to provide the Services.

9. Account Deletion

You may initiate deletion of your FishHawk account through the account settings within the FishHawk app.

If you cannot access your account or the in-app deletion feature, you may contact us at support@fishhawk.io.

We may ask you to verify your identity or confirm the deletion request before completing it.

When account deletion is completed, FishHawk will delete or de-identify your account and associated personal information, including user-generated content, except for information that FishHawk is legally required or otherwise permitted to retain.

Information may remain temporarily in restricted backups or technical logs until those systems complete their normal deletion or overwrite cycles.

Deleting your FishHawk account does not automatically cancel an Apple-managed subscription. You must separately cancel an active auto-renewable subscription through Apple.

10. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have the right to:

• Request information about personal information we collect and process
• Request access to personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
• Request deletion of personal information
• Request a portable copy of certain information
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Withdraw consent
• Opt out of the sale or behavioral-advertising sharing of personal information
• Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information
• Appeal certain decisions concerning a privacy request
• Exercise your privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

Whether a particular right applies depends on your location, the applicable law, and any statutory exceptions.

FishHawk does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

To submit a privacy request, email support@fishhawk.io.

Please include enough information for us to identify your account and understand the request.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. Some requests may be limited by legal exceptions, including where retaining information is necessary to:

• Complete a transaction
• Maintain account security
• Prevent fraud or abuse
• Protect other users
• Comply with law
• Exercise or defend legal claims
• Protect freedom of expression or other legal rights

11. Children’s Privacy

FishHawk is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not create or use a FishHawk account.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that a child under 13 has provided personal information without legally valid parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information and associated account.

A parent or guardian who believes a child has provided information to FishHawk may contact us at support@fishhawk.io.

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These safeguards may include access controls, authentication protections, secure communications, monitoring, and limits on access to personal information.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee that personal information will always remain secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials. You should notify us if you believe your FishHawk account has been accessed without authorization.

13. International Processing

FishHawk and its service providers may process information in the United States and other countries where they operate.

Those countries may have privacy and data-protection laws that differ from the laws where you live.

Where required by applicable law, FishHawk uses legally recognized protections for international transfers of personal information.

14. Third-Party Services and Links

FishHawk may contain links to third-party websites, map services, weather providers, content, or services.

This Privacy Policy does not govern the independent privacy practices of third parties. Their collection and processing of information are governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

You should review the privacy practices of a third-party service before providing information directly to it.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to:

• FishHawk’s features
• Our service providers
• Our information practices
• Applicable laws or regulations

When we update the policy, we will revise the effective date at the top.

If a change is material, we may also provide notice through FishHawk, by email, or through another appropriate method.

16. Contact Us

Questions, privacy requests, and account-related inquiries may be sent to: