Ontario Stocked Lakes — Privacy Policy

Ontario Stocked Lakes — Politique de confidentialité

Effective 23 August 2026

The short version

Ontario Stocked Lakes has no account, no server of ours and no analytics. We do not collect, store or receive any personal information about you. Your location and your trip records stay on your device.

Location

If you use a location feature — finding lakes near you, sorting by distance, or checking weather alerts for a lake area — the app asks the device for your location while the app is in use.

Your location is used on the device to calculate distances and centre the map. It is not sent to us, to any analytics service or to any advertiser. It is not retained after your session unless you choose to attach it to a catch log, in which case it is saved on your device with that log.

You can refuse location access, or revoke it later in the device's privacy settings. The app remains fully usable — search for lakes by name instead.

What is stored on your device

Saved lakes, trip notes, catch logs, your language choice, recently viewed lakes and your most recent location are stored locally. The stored location is kept only so distances still show the next time you open the app; it is discarded after two weeks and never leaves the device.

This never leaves the device unless you deliberately export it with Help → Save a backup, which produces a file you control. Deleting the app deletes this data, and we cannot recover it for you — which is why the backup option exists.

Requests the app makes

The app requests public data from government services to show current information: Government of Ontario open data services for stocking records, fishing access points, Fisheries Management Zones, lake surveys and bathymetry; Environment and Climate Change Canada for weather alerts; and OpenStreetMap and Natural Resources Canada Toporama for map tiles.

These requests include the geographic area being viewed, because that is how the services work. They do not include your identity. We do not operate these services, and each provider's own privacy practices apply to what their servers receive.

What we do not do

No accounts or sign-in. No analytics, telemetry or crash-reporting SDKs. No advertising and no advertising identifiers. No tracking across apps or websites. No selling or sharing of data, because there is none to sell or share.

Children

The app is rated 4+ and collects nothing from anyone, including children. It is not directed at children specifically.

Not a government application

Ontario Stocked Lakes is an independent application. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Ontario or the Government of Canada. Government datasets are used under the Open Government Licence – Ontario and the Environment and Climate Change Canada open data licence. Regulation information in the app is a summary; always confirm the current rules with the official Ontario source before you fish.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions can be sent to the developer through the app's store listing.