About this draft
This draft describes Global Fishing Journal, which is publicly available to readers. The legal operator and country of establishment have not yet been supplied. For privacy questions and requests concerning your information, contact info@globalfishingjournal.com. This draft remains under review and is not a finalized privacy notice. Public availability does not mean the site is indexed by search engines or that audience analytics are enabled.
Information used by the journal
The application has no reader registration, comments, checkout, active advertising network installed. Optional audience analytics is described in the current feature notice above. Public reading does not require an editor account. Editorial tools and the publishing connection are restricted to the authenticated owner through the hosting platform. For signed-in editorial access, the application reads the account identifier, email and, when provided, full name from the hosting platform. The identifier and email support editor authorization; the name or email may be used as the signed-in display name. Article edit records retain an editor identifier and timestamps; scheduled publishing stores content and operational reports.
We use this information to control editing, store articles and investigate publishing problems. Hosting and authentication providers also process requests and may keep access or security logs. Their exact data, retention periods, locations and contractual arrangements still need verification before this notice can be finalized. This notice does not claim that the platform sets no cookies.
Photographs and people pictured
The journal also stores and displays owner-supplied fishing photographs and their credits. These may include recognizable adults and children. The photographs came from the owner, not a public upload form. The owner authorized their use on this website; that permission does not by itself establish every pictured person's privacy or publicity permissions. For the photographs already publicly displayed, the operator must document the applicable basis for using identifiable images, any necessary permissions and how people can raise a concern.
Weather, locations and external services
Weather can be selected by searching a town or city, entering coordinates or choosing a featured area. City searches go to our server and are matched against a GeoNames city index; the search text is not sent to an external geocoding service.
The optional Use my location button asks your browser for location permission only when pressed. You can decline and use search or coordinates instead. Coordinates from any selection are rounded to three decimal places before forecast requests. The application does not save a personal location history or put these selections in the page address. Reloading clears the selection, except for existing featured-area links.
Selected coordinates, time zone, tide station and date are sent to our server as needed. Our server requests weather and sun times from MET Norway, wave forecasts from UNIGE-DICCA through RAISE ERDDAP or PacIOOS / University of Hawaiʻi, and nearby tide stations and predictions from Open Waters. Supported U.S. tide predictions come directly from NOAA. These providers receive the relevant coordinates or station/date from our server. The application does not forward your browser’s IP address to them. Hosting request logs may contain request parameters; hosting and provider retention arrangements still require review.
There are no embedded weather maps or third-party weather scripts. Responses are cached to reduce provider requests, and forecasts refresh every 30 minutes while the page is visible. Weather providers may specify their own cache expiry. Station searches can be cached for a day. A refresh may therefore reuse a recent response.
External forecasts, maps, station sources and official warning services open on the provider’s website only when selected. Those visits send normal browser connection information and any coordinates included in the link to that provider, whose own privacy practices apply.
Article covers load from the journal’s own site address. Clicking image-source or other external links opens the provider’s website. Hosting-provider storage and request behavior still require review for this publicly available site.
Retention, rights and contact
Editorial records remain in the site's database until maintained or removed. A documented retention and deletion schedule, including backups and provider logs, has not yet been approved. The operator must still establish the appropriate processing grounds, retention periods, provider relationships and any cross-border safeguards.
Rights and complaint routes depend on the laws that apply. Contact info@globalfishingjournal.com for privacy questions, access or correction requests, deletion or removal requests, objections, and consent-withdrawal requests. Applicable rights depend on the laws that apply. The completed notice must identify the legal operator and explain the applicable rights and complaint routes.
Future changes
Advertising, affiliate tracking, external newsletter delivery or payments would change how information is handled. Their privacy disclosures and any required choices must be implemented before those features are activated.