Effective date: October 16, 2026
Busch Mountain Fishing Intelligence (BMFI) is operated by Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service LLC in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This policy explains how we handle information used by the app, the service providers involved, and your choices. Features and deletion controls may differ between installed app versions.
iPhone and Android availability
The initial iPhone release of BMFI is free to download and use. All fishing intelligence included in that iOS release is free. No subscriptions or in-app purchases are offered, and Guide Direct is not available in that version. Optional guided fishing trips are separate physical services arranged through the existing Busch Mountain website and may cost money.
Android fishing intelligence is also free. Android offers the optional human-only Guide Direct subscription described below. Shared account information and historical business or transaction records may exist across platforms; removing a feature from the iPhone interface does not erase that history.
Information we process
We process account and contact information you provide, including your email address, name, phone number, account identifier and role; authentication information; fishing sessions, observations, notes, saved rigs and other fishing history you save; notification and saved weather-alert preferences; and technical information needed to operate, secure and improve the service. On Android, the optional Guide Direct service also processes private questions, human responses and attached photos, and subscription/purchase-access information. Historical account, transaction, support and business information may be retained for the purposes described in this policy.
Authorized guides and administrators also use BMFI for guide-trip scheduling, trip and water logs, historical business records and staff audit information. Staff may enter client contact details, trip notes and payment-status information. Recording a payment status does not charge a payment card.
Customer trip requests use our existing website and Brindlechute integration. The updated iOS customer flow opens the website, including from Premium Fishing Dates. Older app releases may retain a trip-interest form that stores request/contact details; it does not confirm a booking or collect payment. The native customer app does not provide booking checkout, process fishing-trip payments or collect/sign fishing waivers. Existing website and historical booking, payment and waiver records are handled separately from private app fishing information.
Guide Direct and fishing intelligence
Guide Direct is available on Android as a human-only service; it is not offered in the initial iPhone release. Real Busch Mountain fishing guides write and send customer answers. Guide Direct questions and photos are stored for that private service and are not sent to OpenAI or another generative AI provider to draft or generate replies. Guide Direct does not require AI-processing consent.
Beaver Brain, Species Intelligence and the other approved fishing-intelligence features remain operational and free. Ordinary fishing questions, species boards and daily plans use deterministic fishing rules and evidence. Adaptive Plan, Personal Fishing Memory and Personal Pattern Detection use account-owned fishing history to tailor advice.
A separate, restricted administrator Premium Fishing Date planning feature uses OpenAI for fishing recommendations. It is not a public general-purpose chatbot or a Guide Direct reply service. That feature supplies projected seasonal summaries, waterbody/species, historical fishing area/method/lure information and numeric fishing measurements. It does not supply Guide Direct questions/photos or customer contact fields. Area or method text can still contain identifying information if someone included it in the source, so we do not describe all projected fishing information as anonymous. Requests use the provider’s non-storage option, which does not mean provider abuse-monitoring logs or other permitted retention are disabled.
Maps, fishing locations and weather alerts
Location permission is optional and limited to foreground use. BMFI can show your map position and save personal waypoints on your device. Displaying the map does not upload those private waypoints to BMFI. Authorized staff may separately publish shared map markers. Map providers can process the requests and network/device information necessary to supply their maps.
Severe Weather and Lightning Alerts are optional. When you select Use My Current Location and agree to enrollment, BMFI transmits latitude and longitude to its Supabase backend and saves that location with your account to evaluate your selected monitoring area. Coordinates are not intentionally rounded; accuracy also depends on your device and its precise/approximate location setting. BMFI does not continuously track your movements or request background location for this feature.
You can replace the saved alert location, disable enrollment to remove its saved coordinates, or revoke location permission through device settings. Verified account deletion removes the account’s saved alert preferences and coordinates. Features that do not require location remain available without permission.
The initial free iPhone release uses National Weather Service forecasts and grid data, National Weather Service station observations, NOAA Aviation Weather Center observations, US Naval Observatory sun times, and USACE water/generation information. Ordinary waterbody requests use fixed reference coordinates for Beaver Lake and Beaver Tailwaters, rather than device GPS or saved personal alert coordinates. Providers may receive the network/IP information needed to process requests. Forecasts are distinguished from observations, and missing measurements are not invented. This iPhone release does not call Open-Meteo. Provider use can differ in older Android releases, including older fixed-location Open-Meteo forecast requests; those requests do not intentionally include device GPS or saved personal alert coordinates. Saved alert enrollment and optional map-location use are covered by the separate location disclosures above.
Platform access and Android subscriptions
All included fishing-intelligence features are free. The initial iPhone release has no subscription, in-app purchase, purchase restoration or subscription-management flow. Guide Direct is offered only on Android in the current release model, at US $1.99 per month. The final localized Google Play price, currency and applicable taxes appear at checkout. Android Guide Direct allows 3 questions per day, up to 3 photos per question and 160 characters per question. Daily limits reset at midnight America/Chicago.
Google Play processes Android Guide Direct payments. BMFI does not receive or store payment-card details. For Android subscriptions, BMFI and RevenueCat process app-account and transaction identifiers, purchase history, subscription status and expiration to verify access, restore purchases, prevent abuse and provide subscription reporting. RevenueCat receives a BMFI account identifier that can be associated with the account. The initial free iPhone release does not initialize the RevenueCat purchase SDK, request an Apple subscription purchase or process new StoreKit purchase transactions. Restricted historical account/business attributes may still include prior purchase/access information.
On Android, Restore Purchases is available in Account Access. Android subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled through Google Play. Uninstalling BMFI or deleting a shared BMFI account does not cancel a store subscription or erase the store purchase history. Cancel any existing subscription through the store where it was purchased if you no longer want future renewal. This cancellation guidance does not mean the initial free iPhone release offers an Apple subscription.
Diagnostics, notifications and analytics
BMFI and its providers process technical app/device information, error diagnostics and operational events for security, app delivery, reliability and usage/subscription reporting. Push registration stores a device/installation identifier and push tokens with the signed-in account so requested notifications can be delivered.
Expo Updates sends a persistent random installation identifier and app/platform information when checking for updates. During recovery it can also send a previous fatal-error summary, limited to 1,024 characters. BMFI does not add your Supabase account identifier to those update headers. Error text can contain information included in an application error; these records are therefore not guaranteed anonymous. Expo can aggregate update-check requests into usage insights. RevenueCat supplies Android purchase/customer reporting, and BMFI records applicable operational service and subscription events. The initial free iPhone release does not run the RevenueCat purchase SDK.
No advertising tracking integration was identified in the audited native BMFI app. We do not sell app users’ personal information to advertisers. This statement does not describe the privacy practices of every external website or app you choose to visit.
Service providers and external links
Supabase supplies app authentication, database, file storage and server functions. RevenueCat supplies Android subscription verification and reporting. Apple and Google provide their applicable distribution, account, store and platform services; Apple Maps and Google Maps support the applicable map features. Expo/EAS supports app delivery, diagnostics and push infrastructure. The initial iPhone weather providers are the National Weather Service, NOAA Aviation Weather Center, US Naval Observatory and USACE. Older installed Android versions may use different forecast providers, including Open-Meteo fixed-location requests. OpenAI supports the restricted administrator planning feature described above. No Guide Direct customer information is supplied to OpenAI to generate replies.
Our website, Brindlechute and authorized guide-service business systems support external trip requests and operations. Those systems may use their own booking, communication, calendar or payment providers and privacy terms. Information is supplied to providers as needed for the relevant service. Follow the provider’s policy when using an external link or service.
Our production Supabase service is hosted in the United States. Other providers may process information in the United States or other countries where they operate, under their applicable terms and access protections; BMFI does not promise that all information remains in your country.
Account deletion and recovery
You can initiate deletion under My Account → Privacy & Data → Delete My Account. Outside the app, use BMFI Account & Data Deletion or contact us below.
In app versions that support the new iOS recovery workflow, the server first records an accepted deletion request and the device saves a private recovery receipt. Acceptance alone does not mean deletion is complete. Before irreversible photo cleanup, the server records a durable cleanup stage and handles justified retained business dependencies. A request can be cancelled only while cancellation remains available before photo cleanup. Once photo cleanup starts, the same request must be completed or recovered safely.
Completion is confirmed only after removal of the authentication account, eligible private database information and verified account-photo cleanup. Eligible information includes private fishing notes and history, sessions/entries, personal memory/pattern inputs, saved rigs, adaptive history, Guide Direct messages/attachments, account preferences and saved alert coordinates. Other customers’ information is preserved. Retained shared fishing information and justified business records are handled separately.
In versions with recovery support, the device clears account-scoped local information after verified completion. An offline or interrupted device may retain local information until it can confirm the result. Completed-request status recovery is available for 30 days after completion. Reopen the app with its saved receipt within that period; contact us if the receipt is unavailable, the window has ended or device cleanup still needs attention. Pending, retryable or unresolved staff requests are protected so their recovery information is not prematurely removed. The technical recovery window does not promise automatic record purging exactly on day 30.
Staff, guide and administrator accounts can initiate deletion. Completion requires review by a separate active authorized administrator, including identity verification, outstanding assignments and justified retention. The owner’s administrator account must be processed by a separate administrator; self-approval is not allowed. A retained business identifier does not provide login, staff privileges or access through the deleted customer account. Receipt-only status recovery does not expose retained business archives.
Retention and request handling
We acknowledge deletion requests within 3 business days and aim to complete verified requests within 30 calendar days, subject to necessary identity verification and justified retention obligations. This completion target is distinct from the 30-day completed-receipt recovery window.
Private account information no longer required is deleted through the verified workflow. Historical booking, payment/accounting, signed-waiver, security/audit and dispute records are retained only where legally or operationally justified. They are separated from deleted account access and restricted to authorized business use. Retained names, identifiers or other necessary fields may still identify someone; they are not represented as anonymous.
We currently use interim manual retention review rather than invented fixed business-record periods or permanent retention. The owner reviews each retained case for its justification, necessary fields, authorized access, applicable holds and eventual disposal, and revisits it when its justification changes. No automatic bulk business-record purge is promised. Rights and separate business purpose must be verified before retaining a published business photograph or contribution; retaining a separately authorized business copy does not preserve the deleted account’s private photo access.
Deletion does not promise immediate erasure from provider logs, protected backups, downloaded copies or offline caches. Those copies remain subject to applicable retention and access controls. Already removed file bytes cannot be restored by rolling back a database transaction. Contact us for information about a request or applicable retained records.
Security, children and policy changes
BMFI uses authenticated operations, role-based access, row-level database protections and private Guide Direct storage. No system can guarantee absolute security. Protect your login and deletion recovery receipt.
BMFI is not designed to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. Guided fishing involving minors is arranged through a parent, guardian or responsible adult using the guide service’s external processes.
We may update this policy as services or practices change. The effective date identifies the published revision. You can contact us about account access, correction, deletion or privacy questions.
Contact
Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service LLC
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
buschmountainfishingguide@gmail.com
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