Privacy Policy

Stay & Fish is an Irish angling, travel and member platform operated from Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland.

For the processing described in this notice, the data controller is:

Darren Bradley trading as Stay & Fish
Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Email: stayandfish@gmail.com

This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, stored and protected when you use the Stay & Fish website, create a member account, contact Stay & Fish or use member features.

This notice applies to the Stay & Fish public website and member services.

These services currently include public website content and member accounts, and may develop to include features such as:

• Saved Waters
• Plan My Trip
• saved trip records
• fishing journals
• community and social features
• Club Spaces
• Ask the Gillie
• weather-related tools
• online books and guides
• personalised story or book features
• other member or subscription services

Not all of these features are available at all times.

Where a future feature involves new or materially different use of personal information, this Privacy Policy may be updated and additional information may be provided when that feature becomes available.

If you create a Stay & Fish member account, information may include:

• your name or chosen display name
• your email address
• your unique account identifier
• your membership status or account type
• account creation and update dates
• email-verification status
• authentication and account-security information

Stay & Fish does not receive or store your password in readable form.

Authentication services are provided using Firebase Authentication, a Google service.

Stay & Fish may maintain a member profile associated with your account.

This may include information such as:

• display name
• email address
• membership type
• account status
• preferences
• profile settings
• feature entitlements
• dates associated with account creation or updates

Some profile information may remain private, while future community features may allow selected profile information to be visible to other members.

Where public profile features are introduced, the information that may be shared publicly will be identified clearly.

Stay & Fish may use your email address to:

• verify your account
• send password-reset instructions
• provide important security or account information
• respond to support or account enquiries
• notify you about significant service or legal changes where appropriate

Account and security emails are operational communications and are not marketing emails.

When you sign in, Firebase Authentication and related website technologies may process information needed to keep you securely signed in.

This may include:

• authentication tokens
• login state
• session information
• device or browser information
• security and diagnostic information

These technologies are used to provide account functionality and security.

They are not used by Stay & Fish for behavioural advertising.

As Stay & Fish develops, members may choose to provide information through features such as:

• Saved Waters
• trip plans
• saved trips
• fishing journals
• catch records
• photographs
• comments or community posts
• club participation
• stories and memories
• preferences
• support requests

The amount of information collected depends on which features you choose to use.

You should avoid providing unnecessary sensitive personal information through general notes, comments, posts or uploads.

Certain future features may involve location-related information, for example:

• a water you save
• a place included in a trip plan
• a fishing location you choose to record
• a location attached to a journal or catch record

Stay & Fish will not treat precise location tracking as automatically enabled simply because you have a member account.

Where device location or precise location information is required by a future feature, an appropriate permission or choice should be presented.

Members remain responsible for considering whether sharing an exact fishing location publicly could expose a sensitive, private or protected fishing spot.

Stay & Fish may provide community or social features.

Information you choose to make visible through these features may be seen by other members.

This could include:

• display name
• profile information
• photographs
• posts
• comments
• catches
• fishing stories
• club-related activity
• other content you intentionally share

You should not post personal information about another person without an appropriate basis or permission.

Stay & Fish may process community content where necessary to operate the service, enforce community rules, respond to reports, investigate misuse and protect users.

Stay & Fish may provide AI-assisted features including Ask the Gillie.

Information submitted to an AI-assisted feature may be processed in order to generate a response.

Depending on the feature, this may include:

• the question you ask
• the water or topic you select
• relevant Stay & Fish guide or journal material
• approved reference material
• information from your own saved account context where the feature is designed to use it

Free or guided versions of Ask the Gillie may limit questions to predefined choices and approved source material.

Future premium versions may provide broader conversational features.

Stay & Fish will aim to minimise unnecessary personal information sent to AI services.

You should not enter highly sensitive personal information into AI-assisted tools unless the feature specifically requires it and explains why.

Where third-party AI providers are used, they may process information as service providers to enable the requested functionality.

If you use planning or journal features, Stay & Fish may process information such as:

• waters you save
• planned trip dates
• trip notes
• fishing methods
• species of interest
• catch records
• photographs
• journal entries
• personal memories or notes

This information is used to provide the feature, save your records and make them available when you return to your account.

Future features may allow some information to be shared or used to create a personalised story or book, but this should only occur where the feature is clearly presented and you choose to use it.

Stay & Fish may in future allow members to create personalised stories, journals or books from their own saved material.

If you choose to use such a feature, Stay & Fish may process selected:

• trip records
• journal entries
• photographs
• catch information
• dates
• locations
• personal stories or memories

The information used should be limited to what is necessary to provide the requested product or service.

Additional terms or notices may apply when personalised physical or digital products are offered.

If you contact Stay & Fish, information may include:

• your name
• email address
• account details
• message contents
• attachments
• information you choose to provide

This information may be used to:

• respond to your enquiry
• provide support
• investigate problems
• keep appropriate records
• protect legal rights
• prevent or address misuse

Stay & Fish uses Firebase and related Google services to host and operate parts of the website and member system.

Technical information may be processed as needed to deliver, secure and maintain the service.

This may include:

• IP address
• request date and time
• pages or files requested
• browser or device information
• operating system information
• response status
• security events
• error or diagnostic information

This information may be processed for:

• website delivery
• security
• fraud and abuse prevention
• troubleshooting
• service reliability
• technical administration

Stay & Fish may use cookies, local storage or similar technologies where they are necessary to provide member login, account security, preferences or core website functionality.

Stay & Fish does not currently use behavioural advertising cookies or sell personal data for advertising purposes.

If analytics, advertising or non-essential tracking technologies are introduced in future, this Privacy Policy and any required cookie choices should be updated before or when those technologies are used.

Personal information may be processed for purposes including:

• creating and managing member accounts
• authenticating users
• providing website and member features
• saving user preferences and records
• providing trip-planning and journal services
• operating community features
• responding to enquiries
• providing customer support
• protecting accounts and systems
• preventing fraud, misuse or abuse
• complying with legal obligations
• establishing, exercising or defending legal claims
• improving service reliability and functionality

Under applicable data-protection law, processing may rely on one or more legal bases depending on the activity.

These may include:

Processing may be necessary to provide a service you request, such as:

• creating and managing your account
• providing member features
• saving trip or journal information
• providing a personalised service you choose to use

Processing may be necessary for legitimate interests such as:

• operating and improving Stay & Fish
• preventing fraud and misuse
• protecting system security
• responding to enquiries
• maintaining appropriate business records
• enforcing terms and community standards

These interests are balanced against the rights and interests of users.

Information may be processed where necessary to comply with applicable law.

Consent may be used where required, for example for certain optional features, communications or future non-essential tracking technologies.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent for future processing.

Stay & Fish may use service providers to operate the website and member services.

These may include providers of:

• website hosting
• authentication
• databases
• cloud infrastructure
• email delivery
• security
• AI-assisted services
• technical support
• payment services if paid features are introduced later

Google and Firebase currently provide key hosting, authentication and database services.

Service providers may process personal information only as needed to provide their services and subject to their applicable contractual and legal obligations.

Stay & Fish does not currently offer an active paid membership subscription through the website.

If paid subscriptions or purchases are introduced, payment information will generally be processed by a specialist payment provider.

Stay & Fish does not intend to store full payment-card details itself.

The Privacy Policy will be updated as necessary when paid services become available.

Personal information may be disclosed where reasonably necessary to:

• service providers
• professional advisers
• public authorities where legally required
• law-enforcement bodies where required by law
• parties involved in protecting Stay & Fish, its users or others
• parties involved in a legitimate business restructuring, subject to appropriate safeguards

Stay & Fish does not sell personal information.

Some service providers may process information outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.

Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards may be used, such as:

• adequacy decisions
• standard contractual clauses
• other lawful transfer mechanisms

The exact safeguards depend on the provider and processing arrangement involved.

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Examples may include:

• account information retained while the account remains active
• member records retained while needed to provide services
• support correspondence retained for an appropriate period
• security records retained as necessary to investigate misuse or protect systems
• legal or financial records retained where required by law

When information is no longer required, it may be deleted, anonymised or securely removed.

Where you delete an account, some information may need to be retained temporarily or longer where required for legal, security, fraud-prevention or dispute-resolution purposes.

Members may request deletion of their Stay & Fish account and associated personal information.

Account & Data Deletion

A deletion request may be subject to:

• reasonable identity verification
• technical processing time
• retention required by law
• information needed to resolve disputes or security incidents
• information that has been lawfully anonymised
• content that must remain where another lawful basis applies

Where community features are introduced, deleting an account may not automatically remove every reference to content that has been lawfully shared with others, although personal identifiers should be removed where appropriate.

Requests can be made to stayandfish@gmail.com until an in-account deletion function is provided.

Stay & Fish uses reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal information.

These may include:

• authenticated account access
• database access controls
• restricted user permissions
• secure service-provider infrastructure
• security monitoring and diagnostic measures

No internet-based system can be guaranteed completely secure.

Members are also responsible for protecting their own passwords and account access.

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights to:

• access your personal information
• correct inaccurate information
• request deletion
• restrict processing
• object to processing
• receive certain information in a portable format
• withdraw consent where consent is the legal basis
• complain to a supervisory authority

Requests may be sent to:

stayandfish@gmail.com

Reasonable verification may be requested where necessary to protect personal information.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission.

Information is available from the Data Protection Commission's official website.

You may also contact Stay & Fish first if you would like an issue investigated directly.

Stay & Fish is intended primarily for adult and general angling audiences.

Member, community, club and future paid features may be subject to additional age requirements.

Stay & Fish does not intend to knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where parental consent or another lawful basis would be required without the necessary safeguards being in place.

Age-related controls may be introduced as member services develop.

This Privacy Policy may be updated as Stay & Fish develops new features, changes service providers or modifies how personal information is processed.

The effective date shown at the top identifies the current version.

Where a change is significant, additional notice may be provided on the website or through member account areas where appropriate.

For privacy, account or data-protection enquiries:

Stay & Fish
Darren Bradley trading as Stay & Fish
Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Email: stayandfish@gmail.com