Privacy Policy

The short version: your fishing data is yours. We use it to make the app work for you, we never sell it, and you can delete all of it whenever you want.

What we collect

Your account email and username. The fishing data you create: trips, catches, photos, notes, saved spots, gear, badges, and your home-water preferences. If you allow location access, we record GPS coordinates on catches you log so your map and forecasts work — location is captured only when you log a catch, never in the background.

How we use it

To run the app. Your bite forecast is scored against the catches you have logged: once you have enough history it is personalized to you, and until then it falls back to a general model. Catch photos you submit for identification are processed by an AI service (Anthropic), which suggests the species.

Cap’n Red’s daily report is built only from public weather, tide and solunar data for the market you have selected. It is the same report for everyone in that market and contains nothing of yours.

If you enter a tournament, we use that entry — the catch photo and its species, size and date — to judge the tournament, determine the winner, and announce and verify the result.

We do not sell your data. We do sell advertising space inside the app, and we advertise Inshore Bite on other platforms. Those are different things, and neither one involves selling your data — see Sponsors and paid listings and Advertising measurement below.

Sharing you control

Nothing you log is visible to other users unless you explicitly share it. When you tap “Share to the Dock” on a catch, other signed-in users can see that catch’s photo, species, size, your display name, and the date. We never disclose the location of a shared catch, to anyone.

Sharing a catch also gives us permission to use that photo. You keep ownership of it. You grant McLean Gas Company LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, display and distribute that photo — both inside the app and on our own marketing channels, including social media — together with the species, size, date and your display name, for the purpose of operating and promoting Inshore Bite. We may crop, resize or caption it to fit a format; we will not alter what it depicts.

You can withdraw that permission whenever you like. Unshare the catch in the app, or email us, and we will stop using the photo and remove it from the channels we control. Two honest limits: removal applies going forward, and we cannot retrieve copies that other people have already saved, reshared or reposted.

Tournament entries are the exception. Awarding and publishing a result requires us to be able to show the winning catch. So when you enter a catch into a tournament, you grant a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to that entry’s photo and its species, size, date and your display name, for judging the tournament, announcing and verifying the result, and referring to it afterwards as part of the tournament record. You may withdraw an entry at any time before judging closes, which withdraws that license with it. Once results are published, the license for that entry remains.

Sponsors and paid listings

Parts of Inshore Bite are paid placement, and more may be over time: sponsored and featured listings in the directory, promoted partners and guides, and sponsorship of a market or of a feature. Where something is paid placement we will label it as such. We may also earn a commission when you buy through a link we place.

Selling that space is not selling your data, and the distinction is the whole point: a sponsor pays to be shown to people fishing a given market. It does not receive your email, username, catches, photos, saved spots, or location, and it is not told who saw its listing or who tapped it. What a sponsor may receive is aggregate, non-identifying figures — how many people saw a listing, how many tapped it — that describe no individual and cannot be traced back to you.

Sponsored content is selected by the market you have chosen and by what you are looking at on screen. It is not selected using your catch history, your saved spots, or your location.

Advertising measurement

We run ads for Inshore Bite on Meta (Facebook and Instagram). So we can tell which ads actually bring people to the app, the app reports a limited set of events to Meta: that the app was installed, that it was opened, and whether a subscription was started. Those reports include your device type and app version.

We have configured Meta’s software so that it does not collect your device’s advertising identifier (IDFA on iOS, Advertising ID on Android). Without that identifier, these events are not used to track you across other apps and websites. Meta processes what it receives under its own data policy.

We do not send Meta your email, username, catches, photos, saved spots, or any location data.

Services we rely on

Supabase hosts our database, authentication, and photo storage. Mapbox provides map tiles and may collect device telemetry per its own policy. RevenueCat processes subscriptions and receives an app-specific identifier along with your purchase history. Sentry receives crash and error reports, which include your device model, operating system version, and app version so we can fix what broke. Meta receives the advertising-measurement events described above. Weather and tide data come from NOAA and Open-Meteo using approximate coordinates, with no account identifiers attached. The National Weather Service provides advisories.

Photos

Catch photos are stored so they can load in your log and, if you share one, in the community spotlight. Treat catch photos as potentially visible: avoid photographing documents or other people without their OK.

Deleting your account and data

In the app: Gear tab → Delete Account permanently removes your account and all associated data — trips, catches, photos, spots, gear, badges, reports, and profile. This is immediate and irreversible. You can also request deletion by email. Full instructions: inshorebite.app/delete-account.html.

Photos already published under a tournament license, and material already distributed off-platform, are the one exception — see Sharing you control above.

Children

Inshore Bite is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes & contact

If this policy changes materially we will note it in the app. Questions or requests: mcleanwb@hotmail.com.