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Privacy

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Last updated: April 2026

TL;DR

We don't ask for your name, your email, or your account. There is no signup. We don't track you across the web. We don't sell anything to anyone.

What we store

When you tap the thumbs-up / thumbs-down on a forecast, we save: your verdict (hit or miss), the species, the water type, our predicted score, and your approximate location rounded to roughly 11 km. That's it. We use this only to find out where the prediction model is weak, and fix it.

What we don't store

No name. No email. No IP address. No precise GPS. No browser fingerprint. No advertising cookies. No third-party trackers. No social pixels. No cross-site identifiers.

Cookies

We use no tracking cookies. The only browser storage we touch is local — your saved language, your map preferences, your offline scan cache, and your private hit-rate history. None of that ever leaves your device.

Analytics

If analytics is enabled on this build, we use Plausible — a cookieless, privacy-first counter that records page views and aggregate visit counts. It does not use cookies, does not fingerprint, and does not identify individuals.

Third-party services

Forecasts pull weather from open-meteo and openweathermap, river data from public hydrology services, water outlines from OpenStreetMap, and map tiles from openfreemap or Google Maps. These services see your scan coordinates while you're using the app, but receive no identifying information about you.

Your rights

Because we hold no personal data, there is nothing to access, correct, or delete on our side. You can clear your local hit-rate history any time from the app. If you have any privacy question, write to us.

Contact

Privacy questions: carp@castandscan.com

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