How your information is used

David Beacall trading as Reel Fishing. Contact: support@reelfishingtimer.com. See Contact.

You can read the Learn, Fish and Community pages as a guest. A notice asks whether we may count your visits.

If you choose Accept, the app creates a random visitor ID and keeps it in your browser (local storage and a cookie, both named ucc_vid; the cookie is set for about a year). It then records page views with the page path and the type of device (mobile, tablet, desktop or unknown), and clicks on links to Reel Fishing’s YouTube channel and Cast Timer. We use this for visitor and usage counting and to understand how the app is used. It is not used for advertising or profiling.

If you choose Decline, or have not chosen yet, the app does not create the visitor ID (and removes one if it exists) and does not send these page-view and click records. The app works the same either way. You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” in the page footer.

Separately from that choice, our server records some actions in the app, for example opening a technique, bait, rig or species guide, the words you search for, and, when you are signed in, creating a session plan, getting bank-side advice or saving a diary entry. When you are signed in, your account identifier may be associated with visit/event records used to operate, secure and understand use of the service.

We use a third-party sign-in provider to provide account authentication using services such as Google and X.

Our authentication provider may process technical information such as IP address and browser/device information as part of sign-in and security.

The app stores your name, email address and profile picture link as provided by the sign-in. Your account is also linked to a Reel Fishing account ID so that paid access can be recognised across Reel Fishing apps (see Payments and Reel Fishing apps below).

• Diary: sessions (venue name, general area, date and times, conditions, notes) and catches (species, number, weight, length, bait, rig, technique, notes). Diary venues are marked private by default.
• Photos: photos you attach to a diary entry are resized and re-encoded as JPEG in your browser before upload, so the original file’s metadata (such as EXIF and GPS location) is not kept. The re-encoded photo is stored in the app’s database.
• Saved plans and free-plan usage counts tied to your account.
• Personal bests, trophies and missions shown to you in My Fishing are calculated from your diary sessions and catches each time you open those pages. They are not saved as separate records.
• Everything you save is private to you. Other anglers cannot see your diary, photos, plans or ideas, and the app has no public posting, replies or profiles.
• Earlier community entries: before the app became private, members could post catches, photos and messages for others to see. That has ended. Anything you wrote then is still stored, and only you can see it, under My Fishing, “Your earlier entries”. Old profile details and likes are kept but are not shown to anyone.
• Ideas you send with “Tell us your idea” go privately to Reel Fishing. Earlier votes on ideas are kept but are not shown.

When you ask for local weather, location coordinates are sent from Reel Fishing’s server to providers such as Open-Meteo and MET Norway to get the forecast. If you typed a place name, the name is first sent to Open-Meteo to find its coordinates. If you press the button to use your device location, your browser asks permission first, the app only reads your location when you tap it, and your device’s coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo to find the nearest place. These requests are made by Reel Fishing’s server, not by your browser, and do not intentionally include your name or account ID.

The last place you used is saved in your browser (ucc_wx_place). Diary entries have no GPS fields.

Payments made on our website are processed by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and are not stored by this app. Nothing can be bought inside the Android app. The app stores Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, the plan (monthly or yearly), status and billing period, so that it knows whether you have paid access.

UK Coarse Fishing Coach acts as the shared Reel Fishing account, membership and billing authority for Cast Timer and Sea Coach where applicable. It stores your Reel Fishing account ID with membership records (which app, where the access came from, and start and end dates), so that paid access can be recognised in Cast Timer, Sea Coach and this app. For Cast Timer subscriptions it also stores the Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, plan, status and billing period, and Cast Timer’s “First 50” promotion claims. Sea Coach keeps its own billing: its membership status is synced here, and Sea Coach’s Stripe customer and subscription identifiers are not accepted by that sync.

What is shared between the apps is account and membership information. This app does not send your diary, photos or other fishing records to Cast Timer or Sea Coach.

Stored only if you choose Accept:

• ucc_vid (cookie and local storage) — random visitor ID, used for visitor and usage counting and to understand how the app is used. Not used for advertising or profiling.

Stored whatever you choose, because the app needs them for what you ask it to do:

• Sign-in cookie and session information — keeps you signed in.
• ucc_consent (local storage) — remembers your choice above. This is strictly necessary storage: it is never used for analytics.
• ucc-theme (local storage) — your light or dark mode choice.
• ucc_wx_place (local storage) — your last weather place.
• reel_app_source (session cookie and session storage, only in the Android app) — remembers that the page is open in the app, so nothing is offered for sale there.

Use “Cookie settings” in the page footer to change your choice. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google when pages load.

• A third-party sign-in provider (using services such as Google and X) — sign-in
• Stripe — payments
• Open-Meteo and MET Norway — weather and place lookups
• Google Fonts — fonts

We use third-party cloud infrastructure and service providers to host and operate Reel Fishing. Those providers may process information in locations outside the UK. Where required, personal data is handled using protections required by applicable UK data-protection law.

We keep personal data only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy. This may include the period while your account is active and, where necessary, a period afterwards for legal, billing, fraud-prevention, security or dispute purposes. We review information we no longer need and delete or anonymise it where appropriate.

If you ask us to access, export or delete your personal data, we will respond without undue delay and normally within one month of receiving a valid request. We may need to confirm your identity first. In some circumstances the law allows additional time, and we will tell you if that applies. We may also need to retain certain information where required by law or for legitimate legal purposes.

To make a request, or to ask a question about your information, email support@reelfishingtimer.com.

You can ask us to delete your account and the information linked to it. See Delete account for what is deleted, what is kept and how to ask.

We may update these terms or this privacy policy when the service, our practices or legal requirements change. The current version and effective date will always be shown on this page.