Privacy Policy

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers site and governs data collection and usage. Using the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers also collects anonymous demographic information that is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers automatically collect. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used by Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers site.

Please remember that if you directly disclose personally identifiable or sensitive data through Texas Hill Country Fly Fisher’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers does not read your private online communications.

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share your information.

Use of your Personal Information

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers collects and uses your personal information to operate the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers website and deliver the services you have requested. Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers and its affiliates. Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers does have industry partners that may request its member lists from time to time, such as Fly Fishers International. Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners, such other Fishing Events and Opportunities that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries such as a newsletter service. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations.

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers to determine what Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers to customers whose behavior indicates interest in a particular subject area.

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, suppose you personalize the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers pages or register with the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers site or services. In that case, a cookie helps Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers features that you customized.

You can accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers at contact@thcff.org We will use commercially reasonable efforts to determine and remedy the problem promptly.