Privacy Policy

WeSportFish.com (the website) is committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors. Our website does use third party service providers to process and store user data, but we will never sell, trade, or disclose your personal information to any other organization without your knowledge and consent. All personal information collected is on a voluntary basis, and will be used and disclosed in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). The purpose of this privacy statement is to inform you how we collect, use, disclose and protect personal information in our control or custody.

WeSportFish reserves the right to disclose personal information if required by law, legal process, or request by law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency. We furthermore reserve the right to disclose personal information to protect the safety and/or security of the public or website users, and to protect and defend the rights of WeSportFish. WeSportFish reserves the right to review and revise this Privacy Policy without notice. We urge to you periodically revisit this page to review it for revisions.

WeSportFish uses secure socket layers (SSL) and has made all reasonable precautions to secure our website against unauthorized access and from data breaches. Due to the nature of the Internet and third-party software and services beyond our control, our website data storage, server hosting and configuration, website software, and other third-party services should NOT be assumed to be 100% secure. WeSportFish can not and does not guarantee the personal information you supply will be 100% secure. By using this website you agree that you understand and assume all risks related to the transmission and storage of your personal information sent to or collected by this website. Should you not accept this Privacy Policy you must not access this website or any of its content.

In plain English, FIPPA defines personal information as recorded information about an identifiable individual other than “contact information”. Personal information may include, but is not limited to, information such as: name, age, home address, email address, phone number, age, family status, and other identifiable information. “Contact information” refers to a business contact and may include data such as the individuals name, business phone, business email, business address, title, business fax, and other business contact information.

WeSportFish collects, uses and retains personal information through the use of website forms. Forms are used to subscribe to newsletters, enter contests, submit comments or feedback, contact us and for special offers. Some forms such as newsletter subscriptions and contest forms are connected to Mailchimp. We only collect the information you provide to us, and only for the purpose it was provided for. This data is retained indefinitely as required to fulfill the visitors request, submission, or inquiries. In certain circumstances, such as entering a sponsored contest, WeSportFish may share your personal information with the contest sponsor(s). In these instances WeSportFish will disclose who the information will be shared with on the entry form and/or in the contest rules.

Personal information including media is also collected from third parties by email, telephone, and personal interviews to provide visitors with website content such as fishing reports, news, fishing tips and other relevant content. If you supply images to the website, you may wish to remove embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to prevent extract of location data from website images.

WeSportFish will make every attempt to be open and transparent on the purpose and use of the personal information collected. All individuals have the right to ask for correction if information is incorrect, or to request the personal information held about themselves, or to erase their personal information provided we are not obliged to retain the data for legal purposes.

WeSportFish uses persistent and session cookies. Your web browser may allow you disable cookies or show you when a cookie is being sent. You browser may also allow you to delete saved Cookies. Cookies are a small piece of data sent from a web site to be stored on your computer to remember stateful information.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Google Analytics Cookies
WeSportFish uses Google Analytics to improve website functionality and gain insights into how visitors navigate and come to visit our website. If you prefer to opt-out of Google Analytics, there are browser extensions available to install in browsers you use that enable you to opt-out of Google Analytics data collection.

Facebook Pixel Cookies
WeSportFish uses Facebook Pixel to track how visitors interact with our website and Facebook ads. It allows us to build better Facebook ads and improve who we target with the ads. When visitors interact with our Facebook ads, visit our website, and trigger an event such signing up for our newsletter or entering a contest, it triggers the Facebook Pixel on our website and reports the activity. This enables us to track conversions from our Facebook ads, set custom audiences for our future ads, and to optimize our ads. It also allows us to show targeted Facebook ads we think will interest people who have already visited our website (retargeting).

When you visit our website our server automatically collects connection information for troubleshooting and basic analytics. This information contains no personal information. It includes the visitors IP address, domain name, browser user agent string, operating system, date and time of visit, pages visited, URL of the referrer website (what you click a link to visit us), and the URL of a link you click to leave us that is not on our website.

WeSportFish contains links to third party websites that are not operated, controlled, or maintained by WeSportFish. To determine how linked sites will treat your personal information you must refer to the linked website’s own privacy policy.

Articles on this website may include embedded content such as video, images, articles, maps, and other content. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. WeSportFish has no control over third party websites, and we urge you to review the privacy policy of external websites before submitting any personal information.