Privacy Policy

Information You Provide

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide through:

• Reservation-request forms
• Contact forms
• Email
• Phone calls
• Text messages
• Direct conversations with Captain Troy or the crew

This information may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Preferred trip date
• Requested trip length
• Number of passengers
• Children’s ages when relevant to trip planning
• Previous-customer information
• Referral information
• Questions, comments, and special requests
• Reservation and payment-status information
• Information needed to prepare for the group

Please do not submit unnecessary sensitive personal information through the website, email, or text message.

Information Collected Automatically

When someone visits the website, limited technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, security services, analytics tools, or similar technologies.

This information may include:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Pages visited
• Approximate visit time
• Referring website or search source
• General geographic area
• Website errors or performance information

This information helps us understand how the website is used, maintain security, identify technical problems, and improve the visitor experience.

How We Use Information

Information may be used to:

• Respond to questions
• Review reservation requests
• Confirm dates and trip details
• Determine whether a requested trip fits the group
• Communicate weather, arrival, payment, and policy information
• Send trip reminders or follow-up information
• Recognize returning customers
• Review referral or loyalty-program eligibility
• Maintain reservation and business records
• Process or document payments
• Prevent fraud, spam, abuse, or security problems
• Improve website performance and content
• Comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, or insurance obligations

Reservations and Card Information

Distraction Charters may request a valid payment card to hold a confirmed reservation.

Payment-card information may be collected or processed through a third-party payment processor, reservation system, card terminal, or other secure payment service.

Distraction Charters does not intentionally publish or store complete payment-card numbers within the public website content.

Payment processors and financial institutions operate under their own privacy and security policies.

Email and Text Communication

When you provide an email address or phone number, Distraction Charters may use it to communicate about:

• Your question or reservation request
• Trip confirmation
• Arrival instructions
• Weather and scheduling
• Payment details
• Changes or cancellations
• Follow-up information related to the trip

Message and data rates may apply to text messages according to your wireless provider.

Providing a phone number for a reservation allows us to communicate about that reservation. It does not automatically enroll you in an unrelated mass-marketing text program.

You may ask us to stop nonessential promotional communication at any time. Operational messages concerning an active or completed reservation may still be sent when reasonably necessary.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The website may use cookies or similar technologies to:

• Remember basic website preferences
• Support website functions
• Measure traffic and page performance
• Understand how visitors find and use the website
• Reduce spam or malicious activity
• Support embedded content or third-party website features

You may adjust cookie settings through your browser. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of some website features.

Analytics

We may use website analytics services to understand general visitor activity, such as:

• Which pages receive visits
• How visitors reach the website
• Which devices are commonly used
• Whether pages load or function properly

Analytics information is generally used to improve the website and understand overall patterns rather than to identify an individual fishing customer by name.

How Information May Be Shared

Distraction Charters does not sell personal information.

Information may be shared when reasonably necessary with service providers that help operate the website or business, such as:

• Website hosting providers
• Email providers
• Reservation or calendar services
• Payment processors
• Accounting or bookkeeping providers
• Website security and spam-prevention services
• Analytics providers
• Insurance providers
• Professional advisers

These providers may receive only the information reasonably needed to perform their services and are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process
• Protect the safety of guests, crew, or others
• Investigate fraud, misuse, threats, or unlawful activity
• Protect the rights or property of Distraction Charters
• Respond to an emergency

Third-Party Websites and Embedded Services

The website may link to or display content from third parties, including:

• Google Maps
• Marine weather resources
• Social-media platforms
• Review websites
• Payment processors
• Reservation tools
• Videos or other embedded media
• Outside fishing and regulatory resources

Those services may collect information according to their own privacy policies.

Distraction Charters does not control the privacy, security, availability, or content of independent third-party websites.

Information Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and practical measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or disclosure.

These measures may include:

• Limiting access to information
• Using reputable website and payment providers
• Maintaining website security tools
• Using password-protected accounts
• Keeping only information reasonably needed for business purposes

No website, email system, text-message service, payment system, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.

How Long Information Is Kept

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Manage a reservation
• Maintain returning-customer history
• Resolve questions or disputes
• Maintain financial, tax, insurance, or business records
• Comply with legal obligations
• Protect the business and its customers

Information that is no longer reasonably needed may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of when practical.

Children’s Privacy

Distraction Charters welcomes families and children aboard its fishing trips, but the website and reservation process are intended for adults.

Children under 13 should not independently submit:

• Reservation requests
• Contact forms
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Other personal information

A parent or legal guardian should submit information and communicate with us on behalf of a child.

If you believe a child under 13 submitted personal information without appropriate parental involvement, contact Captain Troy so the information can be reviewed and deleted when appropriate.

Photographs and Trip Content

Photographs may be taken during fishing trips.

Some photographs may be shared with the customer or, when appropriate permission has been obtained, used on the Distraction Charters website, social-media pages, or other business materials.

Contact Captain Troy before the trip when a member of the group should not be included in promotional photographs.

Your Choices and Requests

You may contact Distraction Charters to:

• Ask what contact or reservation information we maintain about you
• Correct inaccurate contact information
• Request deletion of information that is no longer reasonably required
• Ask to stop nonessential promotional communication
• Ask questions about this Privacy Policy

Some information may need to be retained for active reservations, payment records, tax requirements, insurance, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, or other legal and business obligations.

We may need to verify the identity of the person making a request before changing or disclosing reservation information.

Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Controls

Some browsers and devices provide privacy settings or “Do Not Track” signals.

Because these signals are not handled consistently by all websites and services, this website may not respond uniformly to every browser privacy signal.

You may use browser settings, cookie controls, private-browsing tools, or content blockers to manage some forms of website tracking.

Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy may be updated when:

• The website changes
• Reservation or payment systems change
• New website tools are added
• Business practices change
• Legal or regulatory requirements change

The effective date near the top of the page will be updated when material revisions are made.

Contact Distraction Charters

Questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy may be directed to: