Fish On Canada Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 7, 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how Fish On Canada (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you use our mobile application (“App”). We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with Canadian privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial laws.
By accessing or using the Fish On Canada App, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not use our App.
1. Who are we?
Fish On Canada is a mobile application designed to enhance your fishing experience in Canada. We aim to provide tools, information, and community features to help anglers practice their sport responsibly.
2. Personal Information We Collect
We collect different types of information to provide and improve our services.
2.1 Information You Provide to Us
When you use the Fish On Canada app, you may provide us with the following personal information:
Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, password, and, if applicable, a profile picture.
Profile Information: You can choose to add additional information to your profile, such as your general location (e.g., province or region), preferred fishing methods, and fishing interests.
Fishing Activity Data: Information about your fishing trips, including:
Catch Details: Species, size, weight, date, time, and photos of your catches.
Fishing Location Information: You can manually enter or mark specific fishing locations (e.g., lakes, rivers, or precise coordinates if you choose to share them explicitly).
Travel Logs: Notes or descriptions of your fishing trips.
Communications: When you contact us for help, send us feedback, or participate in surveys, we collect the content of your communications and your contact information.
User-Generated Content: Any content you post in the app, such as comments, forum posts, or shared fishing tips.
2.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you use the app, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns:
Device Information: Device model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information, and IP address.
Usage Data: Details about your use of the app, including the features you access, the pages you visit, the time spent on the app, and the frequency of your activity.
Location Data:
Precise Location: With your explicit consent, we may collect precise, real-time location data from your device (e.g., your GPS coordinates) to enable features such as mapping fishing areas, tracking your movements during an outing, or providing local weather information. This consent will be requested separately, and you can withdraw it at any time through your device settings or the app’s privacy settings.
Approximate Location: Your approximate location (e.g., inferred from your IP address) may be used for general analytics, to provide you with regional content, or for advertising.
Log Data: Server logs may include details of your requests, IP address, browser type, referring and destination pages, and date and time stamps.
Cookies and similar technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to enhance your experience, analyze trends, administer the app, track user movement within the app, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can manage your cookie preferences through your device settings, but disabling cookies may affect the app’s functionality.
2.3 Information from third parties
We may receive information about you from
For analysis and research: To understand how users interact with our Application, identify trends, improve our features, and conduct research to develop new services.
For security and fraud prevention: To protect the security and integrity of our Application, detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and other malicious activity.
For legal and regulatory compliance: To comply with our legal obligations, enforce our terms of use, and resolve disputes.
4. How we share your personal information
We may share your personal information with third parties only in the following circumstances and with appropriate safeguards:
With your consent: We will share your personal information with third parties when we have your explicit consent. For example, if you choose to share a specific fishing trip on a social media platform.
Service providers: We may share your information with third-party suppliers, consultants, and other service providers who act on our behalf, including for hosting, data analysis, payment processing, customer support, and marketing. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which we provide it to them.
Community Features: Information you post in public sections of the app (forums, public travel journals, etc.) will be visible to other users. You control the information you choose to make public.
Legal Compliance and Protection: We may disclose your information if required by law or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation or valid legal process (court order, subpoena, etc.).
Protect and defend our rights and property.
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing related to the app.
Protect the safety of app users and the public.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, bankruptcy, or sale of all or part of our assets, your personal data may be transferred to the acquiring entity. We will notify you by email and/or a prominent notification on our app of any change of ownership or control of your personal data.
Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized data, which does not directly identify you, with third parties for various purposes, including analysis, research, marketing, and reporting.
5. Your Consent
We obtain your consent for the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data, except where permitted or required by law.
Explicit consent: We will obtain your explicit consent for sensitive data (e.g., precise geolocation data) and for marketing communications. This consent may be obtained through occasional in-app notifications or checkboxes.
Implied consent: In some cases, your consent may be implied when the purpose for collecting, using, or disclosing your personal information is clear and you voluntarily provide this information for that purpose.
Withdrawal of consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. Withdrawing your consent may limit your access to certain app features. To withdraw your consent, please change your device settings, the app’s privacy settings, or contact us using the contact information below.
6. Your Rights and Choices
In accordance with Canadian privacy laws, you have certain rights regarding your personal information:
6.1 Access and Correction
You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to request its correction if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete. To do so, please contact us using the contact information below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe, as required by law.
6.2 Withdrawal of Consent
As mentioned above, you can withdraw your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information at any time. You can usually do this through your device’s privacy settings, the application settings, or by contacting us.
6.3 Account Deletion
You can request the deletion of your account and the associated personal information by contacting us. Upon receipt of your request, we will take reasonable steps to delete your data from our active systems, in accordance with our data retention policies and legal obligations.
6.4 Location Services
You have precise control over the collection of your location data. You can enable or disable location services for the Fish On Canada app at any time through your device’s operating system settings. Disabling precise location data may affect the functionality of features that rely on it (for example, real-time mapping of fishing locations).
6.5 Push Notifications
If you have opted in to receive push notifications, you can disable them at any time through your device’s notification settings.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, to provide our services, to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, and to resolve disputes. When your personal information is no longer needed, we securely delete or anonymize it.
8. Data Security
We implement reasonable technical, physical, and administrative security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or destruction. These measures include encryption, secure servers, access controls, and regular security audits. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Children’s Privacy
The Fish On Canada app is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information. If you believe we hold information about a child under the age of 13, please contact us.
10. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any changes.