At Gone Fishing, Inc., we are committed to making our financial education resources accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. We strive to provide a seamless experience on our website and ensure that everyone can benefit from our trading education services.
PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: August 30, 2026
Last Updated: August 30, 2026
Gone Fishing Trader respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit [WEBSITE URL], create an account, register for a program, make a purchase, join a membership, submit a form, receive communications, or otherwise interact with our services.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:
• Contact information, including your name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address
• Account information, including login details, membership status, registrations, and preferences
• Transaction information, including purchases, billing history, subscription status, and payment confirmations
• Registration information, including your selected program, session date, experience level, areas where you need assistance, and scheduling information
• Content you submit, including forms, questions, reviews, testimonials, photographs, files, messages, and community posts
• Communication preferences, including email and text-message consent and opt-out records
• Device and usage information, including IP address, browser type, device type, referring pages, pages visited, approximate location, and website interactions
• Cookie and analytics information used to operate, secure, and improve the website
Payment-card information is generally collected and processed directly by Wix or another authorized payment processor. Gone Fishing Trader does not ordinarily receive or store your complete payment-card number.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION
We may collect information:
• Directly from you when you complete a form, register, purchase, subscribe, communicate with us, or participate in a service
• Automatically through cookies, analytics tools, pixels, log files, and similar technologies
• From service providers that help us operate our website, process payments, send communications, host virtual services, or manage registrations
• From social-media platforms when you interact with our pages or choose to connect through those services
• From referral sources when you or another person identifies who referred you, where legally permitted
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
We may use your information to:
• Process purchases, registrations, subscriptions, and payments
• Create and manage customer and member accounts
• Confirm eligibility and provide access to registered sessions
• Deliver classes, tutoring, memberships, digital resources, and customer support
• Send purchase confirmations, access instructions, reminders, schedule changes, and service notices
• Send educational content, community announcements, and promotional offers when permitted
• Personalize and improve our website, programs, communications, and customer experience
• Analyze website traffic, engagement, and program performance
• Detect fraud, protect accounts, maintain security, and enforce our agreements
• Maintain records of consent, subscriptions, and opt-out requests
• Comply with legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, and contractual obligations
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
TEXT MESSAGING PRIVACY
We send text messages only as permitted by law and according to the consent provided.
When you opt in, we may use your mobile number to send registration confirmations, access instructions, reminders, educational updates, customer-service messages, community announcements, and occasional promotional offers.
Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to unsubscribe or HELP for assistance. Consent to receive promotional texts is not a condition of purchase.
We do not sell, rent, or share mobile telephone numbers, text-message consent records, or SMS opt-in information with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
We may share limited SMS information with vendors that help us deliver and manage our messages, such as our website, communications, and telecommunications providers. Those providers may use the information only to perform services on our behalf or as required by law.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS
We may use your email address to send transactional communications concerning purchases, registrations, accounts, memberships, and services.
When permitted, we may also send educational updates and promotional offers. You can unsubscribe from promotional emails using the link provided in the email. We may still send essential transactional or service-related messages concerning an active purchase, account, or membership.
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Our Wix website and integrated services may use essential and nonessential cookies or similar technologies.
Essential cookies support website security, member login, shopping carts, checkout, account functions, and other necessary features.
Nonessential cookies may help us understand website traffic, measure performance, remember preferences, improve marketing, and evaluate how visitors use our services.
Where required, you can accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies through the cookie banner or privacy settings displayed on our website. Disabling some cookies may affect certain website functions.
HOW WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION
We may disclose information to:
• Wix and other website-hosting or technology providers
• Payment processors and financial institutions
• Email, SMS, customer-management, and automation providers
• Video, virtual-event, course-delivery, and community platforms
• Analytics, advertising, and website-performance providers
• Accountants, attorneys, insurers, contractors, and professional advisers
• Government agencies, regulators, courts, or law-enforcement authorities when required
• A successor organization in connection with a merger, restructuring, financing, sale, or transfer of business assets
These providers receive only the information reasonably necessary to perform their services and are expected to handle it according to applicable agreements and laws.
We do not sell personal information for money. If our data practices change, we will update this Policy and provide any choices required by law.
PAYMENT INFORMATION
Payments are processed through third-party providers. Their handling of your payment information is governed by their own privacy policies and security practices.
We may retain transaction details such as the product purchased, amount, payment status, billing date, and limited payment-method information for accounting, customer service, fraud prevention, and legal compliance.
DATA RETENTION
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
• Provide services and maintain customer accounts
• Complete transactions and maintain financial records
• Manage subscriptions, consent, and opt-out requests
• Resolve disputes and enforce agreements
• Meet tax, legal, regulatory, and operational requirements
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected. We may delete or anonymize information when it is no longer reasonably needed, subject to applicable obligations.
DATA SECURITY
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no website, database, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
You are responsible for protecting your account credentials and notifying us if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request:
• Access to personal information we maintain about you
• Correction of inaccurate information
• Deletion of certain information
• A copy of certain information
• Information about how your data is used or disclosed
• Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent
• An appeal if a qualifying privacy request is denied
• Opt-out from certain targeted advertising, data sharing, or sales practices, where applicable
To submit a privacy request, contact [PRIVACY EMAIL]. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request. Certain information may be retained when legally required or reasonably necessary to complete transactions, prevent fraud, protect rights, or maintain opt-out records.
You may opt out of promotional texts by replying STOP and promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email.
DO NOT TRACK AND PRIVACY CONTROLS
Some browsers provide “Do Not Track” or similar privacy signals. Our response may depend on the capabilities of Wix and the third-party tools used on our website.
Where required by applicable law and supported by our systems, we will recognize legally valid browser-based opt-out preference signals.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our website and trading-education services are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact Support@gonefishingtrader.com so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
Purchases and participation in paid trading programs are limited to persons who are at least 18 years old unless a lawful parent or guardian arrangement has been expressly approved.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND SERVICES
Our website may contain links to brokers, social-media sites, video platforms, payment providers, and other third-party services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. Gone Fishing Trader is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of websites or services we do not control.
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
Gone Fishing Trader operates from the United States. If you access our services from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
By using our services, you understand that privacy protections may differ from those in your home jurisdiction, subject to any rights provided by applicable law.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal requirements, or business practices.
The revised Policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. If a change materially affects how we use previously collected information, we will provide additional notice when required.
CONTACT US
For questions or privacy requests, contact:
Gone Fishing Trader
gonefishingtrader.com