Privacy Policy

Effective September 13, 2026 · Montana Property Reports, LLC, Livingston, Montana

Privacy Policy

The short version. The Montana Angler's Almanac is operated by Montana Property Reports, LLC of Livingston, Montana, which is the party responsible for the information described in this policy.

We use Google Analytics to count visits, served from montanareports.com. It sets cookies so one person moving between our sites is counted once. Advertising features are off (Google Signals and ad personalization disabled), and the tag never sends map coordinates, the places you search, email addresses, phone numbers, or anything you type. You can block it with your browser settings or an ad blocker and the site works normally.

Beyond that, we collect the minimum needed to run a membership and send the emails you ask for, and we do not sell personal information.

What you can do without an account

Everything free needs no account: today's best reach on every river, every closure, hoot-owl restriction, rule, access site and safety note. Nothing you read or tap is stored with your identity. "Use my location" is answered inside your browser: the coordinates are used on your screen to rank reaches by distance and are never sent to us.

What we collect

• Membership. There is no registration form, no password and we do not ask for your name. When you buy a membership, Stripe passes us the email address you paid with and we create your membership from it. We store that email address, the plan, its status and paid-through date, Stripe's customer and subscription references (not your card), whether you are a founding member, and the times you joined and last signed in.
• Sign-in links. A one-time link, valid for fifteen minutes, is sent to your email when you ask for one. Tapping it sets the sign-in cookie described below on that device.
• Your choices on the account page. The rivers and alert kinds you choose, your saved home waters, and whether alerts go by email.
• Terms acceptance. When you tick the box before paying, we record the time, the version of the terms, the plan, your IP address, your browser's user agent string and the reference of the Stripe checkout it led to. That record is how we prove what you agreed to.
• Alert digests. When an alert you chose fires, its text sits in a queue linked to your membership until the email is sent.
• Report-backs. The one-tap "how was it" report stores the reach, the day, the hour, your rating, and the technique and species if you gave them. If you are signed in it is linked to your membership; otherwise it is anonymous.
• Waitlist. If billing is ever switched off and you leave an email address to be told when it reopens, we keep that address for that purpose only.
• Technical logs. Our host records the IP address, browser user agent, time and address of each request, for a short time, for security and troubleshooting.
• Anything you send us. If you email us, we keep the correspondence.

What we do not collect

• Card numbers. Stripe handles payment entirely; we receive a confirmation and references.
• Your location. It stays in your browser, as above. The site never sends it to us.
• Passwords or names. There are none.
• Behavioral profiles. Analytics counts visits, as described above; there is no session recorder and no advertising identifier.
• Personal information in the river data. Gauge readings, forecasts, restrictions and fish surveys are about rivers, not people.

Cookies and browser storage

• mfr_m, set when you sign in. It identifies your membership so members-only pages open for you. It is httpOnly, meaning page scripts cannot read it, lasts 90 days, and is removed when you sign out.
• Analytics cookies from Google Analytics, as described above.
• Your browser also remembers two preferences locally: the day or night theme you chose, and the view you had open so a reload lands you back on it. These never leave your device and contain nothing personal.

There are no advertising cookies.

Third parties that receive data

Being specific here, since vague third-party clauses are how policies mislead people.

• Stripe, payment processing and the Manage billing portal. Receives your email address and card details directly. Subject to Stripe's own privacy policy.
• Resend, email delivery. Receives your email address and the content of the sign-in links and alert digests we send you.
• Fly.io, hosting. Processes every request, keeps operational logs for a short time, and holds the storage volume where the membership records above live.
• Google, analytics, through the Montana Reports tag at montanareports.com. Receives visit counts and your IP address; advertising features are disabled.

Nothing else loads in your browser from a third party. Typefaces, species plates and the river drawings are served from this site, and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Weather Service and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks data behind every page are fetched by our server, not by your browser.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with data brokers, lead aggregators or marketers.

Retention

Membership and billing records are kept while you are a member and afterward as long as needed for accounting and tax purposes. Terms acceptance records are kept as evidence of consent. Sign-in links expire after fifteen minutes. Queued alerts are kept until sent. Technical logs are kept for a short operational period. Report-backs are kept as the calibration record they are; anonymous ones carry nothing that identifies you.

Your requests

Email matt@paradisevalleymedia.com to ask what we hold about you, to correct it, to delete your account, or to stop alert emails (you can also turn alerts off on your account page). We will delete what we are not required to keep for accounting, fraud prevention or as evidence of a purchase you made, and we will tell you specifically what we kept and why rather than refusing in general terms.

Children

The almanac is a fishing conditions service for adults planning their own days on the water. It is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information. We do not collect precise location from anyone; it stays in the browser.

Independence

Montana Property Reports, LLC is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Weather Service or Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, whose public data the almanac reads.

Changes

If what we collect or who receives it changes, this page and its effective date change first, before the change ships.

See also the Terms of Sale, the Refund Policy and the Product Disclaimer.

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