What the FishCoin app sends us, why it needs it, who else handles it, and how to get it removed.
Last updated 18 August 2026.
FishCoin Pty Ltd, 11 Charlton Street, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia, operates the FishCoin app and this website. This policy covers the Android and iOS apps and the pages on fishcoin.ai. What you agree to when you use them is in the terms of service; the rights you grant us in a catch you upload are section 4 there.
It covers catches made in the app, and — since 18 August 2026 — captures uploaded from this website at fishcoin.ai/measure. Those are different situations with different data in them, so they are described separately: the app is everything under What the app collects, and the web uploader has a section of their own below. The earlier version of this paragraph promised that a web upload path would carry its own notice at the point of upload rather than be quietly folded into this page. It does — the notice sits above the file picker, before anything is sent — and this section is the second half of that promise rather than a replacement for it.
This policy is governed by the law of Australia. FishCoin Pty Ltd is an Australian company and most of the people using FishCoin are in Australia. Section 9 of the terms of service sets out the same choice of law in full, including the part that matters more than the choice itself: it settles disputes between you and us, and it does not displace the protections you have where you live. If you are outside Australia you may well keep privacy rights this page does not list.
Every catch you record uploads two files to our storage: a short video clip of the fish (about three seconds, MP4, no sound) and a still thumbnail from it. The app does not record audio at all — it never asks for microphone permission and the recorder is built without an audio track.
Each catch carries the GPS position where it was taken: latitude, longitude, the accuracy of the fix, and the time it was taken. This is a precise position, not an approximate one, and the app will refuse to submit a catch if it cannot get a fix accurate to within 75 metres.
Location is used to check that a catch was made near water, to decide whether it falls inside a tournament's area, and to label a catch by country and state. The country and state are worked out on your phone and stored with the catch.
The app asks for an email address and a phone number before it will send your first catch, and it will not upload one without them. They are typed into a prompt in the capture screen, kept on your phone, and sent with every catch after that. Neither is verified.
This is worth stating clearly because it is easy to assume otherwise: signing in to FishCoin is anonymous, but submitting a catch is not.
The app signs you in to Firebase anonymously. That means an account is created for your install with a random identifier and no name, email address or password attached to it.
You can optionally sign in with Google, or with Apple on iPhone, and the app only asks when you do something that needs a durable identity — sending a player-versus-player challenge, or registering for an event. If you do, your name and email address from that account become associated with your catches.
Each catch carries a device identifier — on Android the system Android ID, on iPhone the identifier for vendor. Both are per-device values, and neither is an advertising identifier. The app contains no advertising identifier, no ad SDK, and does not ask for tracking permission.
A catch also records diagnostic detail about the capture itself: the video's duration, frame rate and resolution, and the app version.
If you turn on tape-measure mode, the app asks you for the fish's real
measured length so we can check the app's measurement against it. What is
stored is the length in millimetres, the method (tape_total_length)
and a version number for the measuring convention. There is no free-text
field, and skipping it is a normal, supported choice.
Challenging another angler uploads their email address or phone number so we can invite them. On iPhone you can pick them from your contacts; on Android you type it in. Only the person you pick is uploaded — the app does not read or upload your address book.
The profile screen lets you save a payout handle — a Cash App, Venmo or similar tag — and its type. That is stored as text and is only what you typed.
fishcoin.ai/measure lets anyone upload a capture and get a length back, with no account and no app. You are a different kind of user from an angler using the app, and less is known about you — so this section says exactly what there is, rather than leaving you to read the app's list and subtract.
| The capture | the file you uploaded, exactly as you sent it, kept permanently |
|---|---|
| Anything inside it | we do not strip metadata from your file. If your camera wrote a GPS position, a timestamp or a device name into it, that is in what we hold |
| A code for your connection | a one-way hash of your IP address, so the rate limits can count uploads without us keeping a list of who uploaded what |
| The measurement | what our software made of it, and when |
| Your acknowledgement | that you ticked the consent box, when, and which version of the terms was current |
The IP hash is worth being straight about. It is not your address and it cannot be turned back into one, but it is derived from it and it is stable, so two uploads from the same connection carry the same code. It exists to stop one person filling our storage, and it is used for nothing else.
A web upload goes into its own store, separate from app catches. It is never published. It cannot appear on the leaderboard, on an angler profile or on a catch page — not by policy but by construction, because those pages only ever read the app's collection. Nobody but us sees what you upload.
It is kept permanently and used to improve the measuring software, which is what pays for the measurement being free. Measurements and their positions are not currently supplied to anyone outside FishCoin; if that changes, it would be on the same terms as app catches, described under Catch data and research bodies below — with no identifier of any kind attached.
What you can do: the page gives you a reference for your upload when it finishes. Keep it, and email it to info@fishcoinapp.com, and we will blur the people in it. The upload itself is never deleted — that is the same rule that applies to catches made in the app, and the section on deletion below explains both the reason and the limits of blurring.
Without that reference we probably cannot find your upload, because we hold nothing that connects it to you — which is the same fact that makes the web path private in the first place. If that trade is not the one you want, use the app, where deletion is a button.
The same minimum applies here as everywhere else in FishCoin: 13 and over. The page does not ask your age and cannot verify it.
This differs by platform today. It is written out in full rather than summarised, because a single sentence covering both would be wrong about one of them.
Google's Firebase Analytics is included and is collecting. There are no analytics calls written into our own code, so what it gathers is the set of events the library records by itself:
There is no advertising identifier. The library that would supply one is not included in the app, so no IDFA is collected and none can be.
The Android app contains no analytics library and no crash-reporting library at all.
Crashlytics is not in either app today.
This is not yet true and is written here so it is not a surprise. The next release is intended to:
When that ships, this section will be rewritten to describe it in the present tense.
A measured catch can appear on the public leaderboard, on an angler profile page and on a catch page. What is shown there is:
| Shown | a six-character handle, the fish's measured length, when it was caught, the blurred general area, and the catch photo |
|---|---|
| Only if you chose to | your display name and your profile photo |
| Never shown | your email address, phone number, device identifier, exact position, or the tape measurement you typed |
The handle is a one-way hash and cannot be turned back into your account.
No payments are processed today. Challenges can carry an entry fee in their description, but nothing in the apps or the backend takes money — there is no payment provider connected, and no card details are ever collected or stored. If that changes, this page will say who processes payments before it happens.
Catches are kept so that leaderboards, tournament results and the accuracy of the measuring system remain meaningful over time. There is no automatic expiry.
The reason it works that way is that a catch may be a scored entry in a contest someone else took part in, and a competitor being able to erase their own evidence after the fact is not something we want to be possible.
You can close your account and have your personal information destroyed, in the app under Settings → Delete my account, or on the web at fishcoin.ai/delete-account — which needs neither the app nor a login, so it works after you have uninstalled.
Two consequences we would rather state than have you discover.
Deleting the app from your phone destroys everything it had stored locally, but on its own it does not close your account — use one of the two routes above. A link to a video that somebody already copied keeps working until the file itself is removed, which is the reason media removal is a separate request rather than something the anonymisation covers.
Backups can take up to a further 30 days to age out.
Measurements of fish, and where and when they were caught, are useful beyond FishCoin, and we intend to make use of that — the terms of service permit it. So this is a description of what we would do, not a promise never to do it. If it starts, this page will say so before it happens, not afterwards.
It would carry no identifier of any kind — not your name, not your account, not your device, not an anonymous code number. That last one is deliberate rather than an oversight: a code number would let a recipient group your catches together, and a group of exact positions and times is a picture of where one person fishes. The intention is to supply observations of fish, not of anglers.
None of that is what appears on this website, which is a separate matter and is happening today: public catch pages show a blurred position about a mile across, and the precise coordinate is kept in our records whether or not it is ever supplied to anybody.
Published catches are public to anyone, with no login. If a catch or an angler shows something that should not be there — including your own face or details in somebody else's video — you can report it without an account, and the app has the same control. Our full moderation practice, including how quickly we act, is at fishcoin.ai/moderation.
You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted — see fishcoin.ai/delete-account for deletion.
| Company | FishCoin Pty Ltd |
|---|---|
| Address | 11 Charlton Street, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia |
| info@fishcoinapp.com | |
| Telephone | +1 702 475 3789 |
The telephone number is a United States one and the company is Australian. That is deliberate, not a mistake on this page. The contact button at the bottom of the home page reaches us as well.
FishCoin is for anglers aged 13 and over. It is not designed for or directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 13.
The app does not currently ask your age or verify it. If you believe a child under 13 has used the app and sent us a catch, contact us and we will remove what we hold.
If what the app collects changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.
Change, 18 August 2026 — uploads from this website. This policy now also covers people who upload a capture at fishcoin.ai/measure without the app. That is a new kind of user rather than a new thing collected from an existing one, so it has its own section — If you upload from this website instead of the app — instead of being folded into the app's list. The section says plainly that a web uploader has no account and therefore no self-service deletion, which is the weakest part of that path.
Correction, 19 August 2026 — we said we supplied catch data to fishery research, and we do not. Earlier versions of this page, of the deletion page and of the terms said in the present tense that fish measurements, exact coordinates and times were supplied to fishery-management and research bodies. That is not happening and there are no current plans for it. The wording is corrected above to describe an intention rather than a practice — deliberately not swung to “we never will”, which would be a promise nobody has made.
Correction, 19 August 2026 — we said we would remove media, and we will not. Earlier versions of this page, of the terms, and of the deletion form said you could ask us to remove your videos and photos and that we would action it within seven days. That was wrong: catch media is never deleted. The remedy we can actually offer is blurring the people in a clip, reviewed by a person, taking up to 60 days — and it is partial, because anything too close to the fish or the coin has to stay as it is. The wording is corrected above. Nobody had asked for removal under the old promise before it was changed, so nothing was left undone; it was a promise we should not have made rather than one we broke.
Correction, 18 August 2026 — governing law. An earlier version of this page said that it was governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, United States. That was wrong and it is now corrected to Australia. The Nevada text was written on the understanding that FishCoin was operated by an individual there; it is operated by FishCoin Pty Ltd, an Australian company, and most of the people using it are in Australia. The change is recorded here rather than made silently, because a privacy policy that alters which country's law governs it without saying so is not one anybody should trust. The postal address and contact telephone number, previously marked to be confirmed, were supplied by the operator at the same time and are now published above.
Correction, 18 August 2026 — analytics. An earlier version of
this page, published the same day, said that no analytics service was active
in either app. That was wrong for iPhone: Firebase Analytics was collecting. The
setting we relied on to check — IS_ANALYTICS_ENABLED — does not
control collection, and the setting that does was absent, which leaves
collection on by default. It is described accurately above.