Your privacy should be as clear as the route to the ramp.

Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to the Boat Ramp IQ mobile application, the Boat Ramp IQ website located at boatrampfinder.myshopify.com, related support pages, and other services that link to this policy.

Boat Ramp IQ is operated by Love for Locals LLC. In this policy, “Boat Ramp IQ,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to Love for Locals LLC as the operator of these services.

Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on which features you use. We may collect the following categories of information:

You are not required to provide every type of information. However, certain features may not function without the information needed to provide them.

How We Use Information

We may use information to:

• Provide nearby ramp discovery, maps, searches, filtering, and routing handoffs.
• Display ramp access, parking, launch, fee, permit, and condition information.
• Save favorite ramps, preferences, recent activity, and trip-related information.
• Receive, evaluate, and publish community corrections or condition reports.
• Operate subscriptions, purchases, entitlements, or account features if offered.
• Respond to support requests, feedback, and data-rights requests.
• Diagnose crashes, improve performance, prevent abuse, and secure the service.
• Understand feature usage and improve Boat Ramp IQ.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and policies.

Location Information

With your permission, Boat Ramp IQ may access precise or approximate location to show your position, identify nearby ramps, calculate distance, center maps, prepare routing, or support other location-aware features.

You can control location permission in your device settings. You may also be able to search by lake, city, or address without sharing precise location. Disabling location may limit nearby search, live map positioning, and routing features.

Boat Ramp IQ does not use location permission as a guarantee that any route, ramp, parking area, or launch condition is safe, public, open, or suitable.

When Information Is Shared

We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration. We may disclose information in the following circumstances:

• Service providers: Vendors that support hosting, maps, location services, payments, analytics, crash reporting, customer support, email, security, and other app or website operations.
• User-directed actions: When you choose to open a ramp in another navigation app, share a place, submit a public report, or use a feature that sends information to another service.
• Community information: Ramp reports, corrections, photos, status observations, and similar contributions may be displayed to other users. We may remove or limit identifying information before publication where appropriate.
• Legal and safety reasons: When reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, protect rights or safety, investigate fraud, enforce policies, or secure the service.
• Business transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar transaction.
• With consent: For another purpose disclosed to you when you provide permission.

Third-Party Services

Boat Ramp IQ relies on third-party platforms and data providers. Depending on the features used, these may include:

• Apple: App distribution, device permissions, subscriptions, purchases, and related platform services.
• Shopify: Website hosting, forms, cookies, store functionality, and customer privacy controls.
• Map, geocoding, and navigation providers: Map display, search, coordinates, place data, directions, and route handoffs.
• Weather, water, government, marina, and public-data sources: Conditions and access information where available.
• Analytics, diagnostics, and security providers: App performance, crash analysis, usage measurement, fraud prevention, and service reliability.

These providers may process information under their own privacy policies. Their data practices are not controlled solely by Boat Ramp IQ. Third-party services integrated into Boat Ramp IQ are expected to provide protections consistent with applicable law and their contractual obligations.

Retention and Deletion

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, support legitimate operational needs, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, enforce agreements, and meet legal, tax, accounting, or security obligations.

Retention periods vary by data type. For example, support messages may be kept while a request is active and for a reasonable recordkeeping period afterward. Community reports may be retained to preserve ramp history, even if identifying account information is removed or separated.

You may request deletion of personal information associated with you by using the contact method below. We may retain limited information where required by law, needed for security, or necessary to document that a request was completed.

Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information associated with you.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Request deletion of personal information.
• Request a portable copy of certain information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request where required by law.
• Opt out of certain cookie-based analytics, advertising, sale, or sharing where applicable.

Device permissions

You can manage location, camera, photo-library, microphone, notification, and other permissions in your device settings.

Website privacy controls

Where available, use the Shopify cookie banner, privacy settings, or data-sharing opt-out controls displayed on the website.

Account deletion

If Boat Ramp IQ offers user accounts, you may request account deletion through the in-app option where available or through the Support page.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a privacy request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law and may be required to provide proof of authority.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by law.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. However, no app, website, network, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your device, account credentials, and any information you choose to share publicly.

Children’s Privacy

Boat Ramp IQ is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.

International Processing

Boat Ramp IQ and its service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Those locations may have privacy laws different from the laws where you live. Where required, appropriate safeguards will be used for cross-border processing.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Boat Ramp IQ changes or as legal requirements evolve. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. When required, we may provide additional notice through the app, website, or another appropriate method.

Contact Us

For privacy questions, access requests, deletion requests, or concerns about this policy, contact Love for Locals LLC through the Boat Ramp IQ Support page:

Please write “Privacy Request” in the subject or topic and describe the request clearly. Do not include sensitive personal information that is not needed to process your request.