Our privacy policies, and your options regarding privacy.

We are commited to your privacy!

Your privacy is important, so we'd like to explain what information we collect when you visit BestCatchTackle.com, why we collect it and how it is used to assist you in the purchase of fishing tackle and search for fishing information. We'd also like to explain your options to access and control your information, our data security practices and other matters. This Policy is governed by our Terms of Service.

Special note about children

This fishing tackle Site is not intended for children, especially kids under 13. Children may use this Site only with the direct supervision of their parents.

What information do we collect from you? Why?

If we collect personal contact information (as described below), you may later access and modify it, and remove it from our system You may choose simply not to provide personal contact information by opting-out at the point of collection.

When you use our fishing tackle site, we may request your name, street address, telephone number or other "real world" contact information. We may collect information actively generated by the purchase of a fishing tackle product or service, such as a payment method. As you browse our fishing tackle site, we may gather navigational and clickstream data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending an e-mail to us or writing us at the below address and telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our company.

Certain Exceptional Disclosures

We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct. Disclosure may be required by law or if we receive legal process.

What are cookies? Why do we use them?

Cookies are small files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit our fishing tackle site. We use cookies to improve our site and make it easier to use. Cookies permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information. We mostly use "session cookies" that are automatically deleted after each visit. Cookies from BestCatchTackle.com can't be read by other sites. Most browsers will accept cookies until you change browser settings to refuse them.

How do we protect information we collect?

We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds of user information and we store certain kinds of data in encrypted form. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by BestCatchTackle.com reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.

You can shop at our fishing tackle site, BestCatchTackle.com online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since we opened, to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks. The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

128-bit secure sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy http://www.authorize.net/company/privacy

Our fishing tackle Site, www.BestCatchTackle.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

How long do we keep user information?

We generally keep user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We may alter this practice according to changing requirements. For example, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage space. We may keep other data for longer periods if the law requires it. In addition, information posted in a public forum could stay in the public domain indefinitely.

Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control. Note: we have greater control over recently collected data than for archived data. Once data is removed from the system and archived, it may not be feasible to accommodate specific requests. In those cases, our general data retention policy applies.

Your consent to this policy

By using BestCatchTackle.com, you agree to this Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supersedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision. We may change our Policy by posting a new version on our fishing tackle Site.

Legal Disclaimer

This fishing tackle web-site, BestCatchTackle.com, operates AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE, without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events beyond our direct control. This Policy is governed by CA law, excluding conflicts of law principles. Any legal actions against us must be commenced in CA within one year after the claim arose, or be barred.