Privacy Information
How theBASSguys handles messages, subscriptions, and information used to operate our freshwater bass fishing website.
When you contact us
Our protected Contact Page asks for your name, email address, a subject, and your message. We use this information to receive your question or feedback and respond to you. Submissions are sent to fishing@thebassguys.com.
To reduce spam, the form uses a temporary session and checks submission timing. It also uses a hash derived from the visitor's IP address and submission timestamps for rate limiting. The saved form code stores these rate-limit records in the server's temporary-file area. The eventual deletion timing for those files and for email messages still needs verification.
When you subscribe
When you subscribe to theBASSguys.com, we collect your name and email address to manage your subscription and send website updates and other communications related to our freshwater bass fishing content. Your subscriber information is stored through our website hosting service, and we take reasonable steps to protect it.
You may unsubscribe at any time by contacting us through our Contact page or emailing fishing@thebassguys.com and requesting removal of your email address. After processing your request, we will delete your information from our active subscriber list and stop sending subscription emails to that address.
We retain subscriber information while it is needed to maintain your subscription or for other legitimate purposes. Certain information may remain temporarily in routine hosting backups or records retained for legal or security reasons. We do not promise immediate erasure of all backup or email copies.
We do not sell your name or email address
We do not sell, rent, or trade the names or email addresses you provide through our Contact or Subscribe pages to advertisers, data brokers, or other businesses for their marketing.
Our website hosting and email services may process this information when needed to operate the site, manage subscriptions, or respond to your messages. Using those services does not mean we sell your information.
Cookies, visitor notifications, and server records
The protected Contact Page uses a session cookie for form security. The saved visitor-notification feature, if enabled on a page, sets a cookie lasting approximately 30 minutes to avoid repeated visit notifications. The saved notification email includes the page visited and the visit time.
Like many hosted websites, our hosting service may process technical records such as IP addresses, browser details, and requested pages. We are confirming which logs are enabled and how long they are retained. The final notice will describe the configuration actually used on the published site.
Links, materials, and questions
Links to other websites and services may lead to separate privacy practices. Photographs and materials used with third-party permission remain subject to their respective owners' rights.
To ask about information you have submitted, request a correction, unsubscribe, or request removal of your active subscriber record, use our Contact page or email fishing@thebassguys.com. We may need to verify that a request concerns your own email address before processing it.
Items to verify before publication
Verified: Hostway provides a Delete control with a confirmation step for subscriber records, and a test record was successfully deleted from the active subscriber table. The owner reports no separate active mailing list or subscriber database. Still to verify before publication: subscription mailing uses only the current subscriber table; contact mailbox and anti-spam-file retention; Hostway technical logs and relevant service providers; and which visitor-alert scripts are active. Do not describe hosting backups or legal retention as immediately erasable.