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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: (13-Oct-2026)

Smokin Anglers LLC ("Smokin Anglers," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit smokinanglers.com, contact us, join or manage a club membership, purchase merchandise, inquire about or participate in fishing trips and events, subscribe to communications, view or submit content, or otherwise interact with us online or offline in connection with our services.

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This policy applies to the Smokin Anglers website and the services we control. It does not govern independent websites, social media platforms, charter operators, guides, lodges, payment providers, shipping carriers, or other third parties that may have their own privacy practices. Please review the privacy notices of those third parties when you use their services.

1.    Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Smokin Anglers. We may collect the following categories of information.

 

Information You Provide

  • Identity and contact information, such as your first and last name, email address, telephone number, mailing or shipping address, and other contact details you choose to provide.

  • Membership information, such as membership type, membership status, renewal information, member communications, preferences, and records related to benefits or member-only activities.

  • Order and transaction information, such as products ordered, quantities, shipping details, billing information, transaction amount, payment status, refunds, and purchase history. Payment card information may be collected and processed by our payment service providers. We may receive transaction confirmations and limited billing information rather than complete card credentials.

  • Trip and event information, such as event registration details, destination, participation records, preferences, emergency or logistical information you voluntarily provide, and communications about a trip, tournament, meetup, workshop, or other club activity.

  • Communications, such as messages submitted through our contact form, customer service requests, membership questions, comments, survey responses, contest or promotion entries, and correspondence with us.

  • Marketing preferences, including your decision to subscribe to or unsubscribe from newsletters, trip announcements, member offers, merchandise updates, fishing tips, and similar communications.

  • Content you provide, such as photographs, videos, testimonials, reviews, captions, comments, or other materials you submit to us or authorize us to use.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use our website, our service providers and we may automatically collect information about your device and activity. Depending on the technologies in use, this may include:

  • Internet Protocol address, browser type, operating system, device type, language settings, and approximate location derived from an IP address.

  • Pages viewed, links clicked, referring pages, dates and times of visits, shopping or membership interactions, and other website activity.

  • Cookie identifiers, session identifiers, and similar technologies are used to operate the site, remember settings, measure performance, understand traffic, support security, and improve the user experience.

 

Some of this information may be considered personal information under applicable law, particularly when it can be linked to a device, account, household, or individual.

Information From Other Sources

We may receive information from service providers and business partners that help us operate the website or provide club services. Examples may include website hosting and ecommerce providers, payment processors, shipping carriers, trip or event partners, social media platforms, analytics providers, and fraud-prevention or security vendors. We may also receive information that you direct another person or service to provide to us.

2.    How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information for the following business and operational purposes:

  • Provide, administer, and improve the Smokin Anglers website, club membership, member benefits, merchandise store, fishing trips, meetups, tournaments, educational activities, and other services.

  • Process orders, payments, membership charges, renewals, refunds, shipping, and transaction records.

  • Respond to inquiries, provide customer or member support, and communicate about orders, memberships, trips, event changes, safety information, and service notices.

  • Send newsletters and promotional communications about fishing trips, tournaments, merchandise, member offers, club news, and fishing content, subject to applicable law and your communication choices.

  • Personalize content and understand how visitors, customers, and members use our website and services.

  • Maintain the security and integrity of our website and services, detect or prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized activity, or technical problems, and protect our rights and the rights of others.

  • Maintain business records, enforce our agreements, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and respond to lawful requests from courts, regulators, law enforcement, or other government authorities.

  • Create aggregated or de-identified information for analytics, planning, and service improvement where permitted by law.

3.    Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies to make the website function, remember preferences, understand site usage, measure performance, support ecommerce and membership functionality, and help protect against fraud or misuse.

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​You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect checkout, account, membership, preference, or other website functions. Where applicable law requires consent or provides additional opt-out rights, we will provide or honor the required choices through available website controls or other appropriate mechanisms.

4.    How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by law.

 

Service Providers

We may provide information to companies that perform services for us, such as website hosting, ecommerce, payment processing, order fulfillment, shipping, email delivery, analytics, security, customer support, data storage, and technical services. These providers may use information only as permitted by their agreements with us and applicable law.

 

Trip, Event, and Business Partners

When reasonably necessary to organize a fishing trip, tournament, meetup, educational activity, or related service, we may provide relevant participant information to charter operators, guides, venues, lodging providers, transportation providers, event partners, insurers, or other parties involved in delivering the activity. We seek to limit such disclosures to information reasonably needed for coordination, safety, booking, or legal requirements.

 

Legal, Safety, and Business Transfers

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law, legal process, or lawful government requests; enforce our policies or agreements; protect the safety, rights, or property of Smokin Anglers, our members, customers, participants, or others; investigate suspected fraud or misuse; or respond to an emergency.

If Smokin Anglers is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

 

At Your Direction or With Your Consent

We may disclose information to other parties when you ask us to do so, authorize the disclosure, or intentionally interact with a third-party feature or service that requires the disclosure.

5.    Social Media and Third-Party Links

Our website may link to or display content from services such as Instagram, Facebook, video platforms, booking or payment services, and other third-party websites. If you click a third-party link, use a social media feature, or interact with embedded content, the third party may collect information directly from you or your device under its own privacy policy. Smokin Anglers does not control the privacy practices of those third parties.

6.    Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise receive promotional email from us, you may opt out of marketing messages at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us at fish@smokinanglers.com. Even after you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send transactional or relationship messages, such as order confirmations, membership notices, trip updates, security notices, or responses to your requests.

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We do not charge a fee for processing an email marketing opt-out. Please allow a reasonable period for your request to be applied across our systems and service providers as required by applicable law.

7.    Photographs, Video, and Member Content

Smokin Anglers may photograph or record club activities, fishing trips, tournaments, meetups, workshops, and other events. We may use event photographs or video for club communications, galleries, social media, or promotional purposes where permitted by law and any applicable event terms or release. If you have a concern about appearing in club media, contact us before the applicable activity, when practical, so we can discuss available options.

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If you submit photographs, video, testimonials, or other content to us, that content may contain personal information about you or other individuals. You should submit only content you have the right to provide and should avoid sharing unnecessary sensitive information.

8.    Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including to provide services, maintain membership and transaction records, comply with tax and accounting requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, protect legal rights, and satisfy other legal obligations. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the relationship, legal requirements, and operational needs. When information is no longer reasonably needed, we may delete it, de-identify it, or retain it in a form that is not reasonably capable of identifying you, subject to applicable law and technical limitations such as backup systems.

9.    Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. No website, network, storage system, or method of transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for using appropriate safeguards on your own devices and for protecting any account credentials associated with services you use.

10.    Children’s Privacy

Smokin Anglers promotes fishing and outdoorsmanship for families and participants of different ages, but our website is not intended to collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate parental involvement. Children under 13 should not submit a contact form, subscribe to marketing communications, create an account, make a purchase, or provide personal information to us online unless a parent or legal guardian has provided any consent required by law and is supervising the interaction.

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​If we learn that we collected personal information online from a child under 13 in a manner that requires parental consent and such consent was not obtained, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information or otherwise address the issue as required by law. A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has provided personal information to us may contact fish@smokinanglers.com.

11.    Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information. These may include the right to request access to information we maintain about you, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion, obtain a portable copy of certain information, or opt out of certain processing or disclosures where such rights apply.

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You may submit a privacy request by emailing fish@smokinanglers.com and describing the request. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request and may ask for information reasonably necessary to do so. We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, such as when we need to retain information to complete a transaction, detect security incidents, comply with legal obligations, protect rights, or exercise another lawful exception.

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​If applicable law permits an authorized agent to make a request for you, we may require proof of the agent’s authority and may also verify your identity directly. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights.

12.    Do We Sell Personal Information?

Smokin Anglers does not intend to sell personal information in exchange for money. We may disclose information to service providers, trip and event partners, analytics or technology providers, and other recipients for the business purposes described in this policy. Some privacy laws define terms such as "sale," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" more broadly than an exchange for money. If our practices fall within those definitions and applicable law gives you an opt-out right, we will provide or honor the required opt-out mechanism.

13.    International Users and Travel

Smokin Anglers is based in the United States and may organize activities in different U.S. states or countries. If you access our website or provide information from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers or we operate. Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live. International trip participants should also review the privacy practices of travel, lodging, charter, and other providers used for a particular trip.

14.    Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements. When we update the policy, we will revise the "Last Updated" date above. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice where required by law. Your continued use of our services after an updated policy becomes effective is subject to the updated policy, except where applicable law requires a different form of notice or consent.

15.    Contact Us

Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices may be directed to:

Smokin Anglers LLC
Email: fish@smokinanglers.com
Phone: +1 (917) 952-2122
Website: www.smokinanglers.com

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