Privacy Policy for Coastline Anglers Guild
This Privacy Policy describes how Coastline Anglers Guild collects, uses, and discloses information in connection with your access to and use of our online platform and services, including commercial fishing operations, sustainable aquaculture management, marine resource consulting, fishing gear supply, and charter fishing expeditions. We are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant Canadian privacy legislation.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information from and about users of our online platform to provide and improve our services.
Information You Provide to Us:
- Contact Information: Such as your name, mailing address (including 2847 Water's Edge Drive, Suite 300, Richmond, British Columbia, V6V 1J1, Canada), phone number, and other similar identifiers when you register for an account, request information, or contact us.
- Account Information: If you create an account on our online platform, we collect information relating to your account, such as username, password, and transaction history.
- Service-Related Information: Details necessary for specific services, such as vessel details, fishing preferences, or specific consulting needs.
- Communications: Records of your correspondence with us, including inquiries, feedback, and support requests.
Information We Collect Automatically:
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our online platform, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our online platform and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our services, including facilitating commercial fishing operations, managing aquaculture, providing marine resource consulting, supplying fishing gear, and organizing charter fishing expeditions.
- To process your transactions and manage your orders for products and services.
- To improve, personalize, and expand our online platform and services.
- To understand and analyze how you use our services.
- To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide customer support.
- To send you updates, promotional materials, and other information related to our services that may be of interest to you, in accordance with your communication preferences.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, or other illegal activities.
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms of service and other agreements.
3. How We Share Your Information
We may share your information with third parties in the following situations:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting, and customer service. These service providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via a prominent notice on our online platform of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with other third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
4. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
5. Data Retention
We retain your information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Once your information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable laws.
7. Children's Privacy
Our online platform and services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Coastline Anglers Guild
2847 Water's Edge Drive, Suite 300,
Richmond, British Columbia, V6V 1J1,
Canada