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Privacy Policy

How Fly Tying Inventory collects, uses, and protects information for the website and native app.

Last updated: October 24, 2026

Fly Tying Inventory helps you track fly tying materials, build shopping lists, identify materials from photos, and share fly patterns. This policy explains what we collect and why.

Information we collect

  • Account information: email address, name or display name, authentication identifiers, and related account settings.
  • User content: inventory items, shopping list items, custom materials, custom patterns, pattern steps, notes, workbench entries, feedback, and any text you choose to enter.
  • Spreadsheets you import: the file is read on your device; we receive the rows you choose to import. To work out what each column holds, its column names and up to 20 sample rows are sent to our AI provider. The file itself is not stored.
  • Photos and camera input: photos you upload or capture for Photo Identify, material images, pattern images, and barcode scans when you use those features.
  • Usage and diagnostics: product interaction events, session identifiers, device/browser details, performance data, error logs, and basic analytics.
  • Pattern library searches (website only): the words you search for in the pattern library and how many results they found, stored without your account, session or device details and deleted after 90 days. We use them to decide which patterns to add next. The iPhone app does not send them.
  • Communications: support requests, feedback, and replies sent through the app or email.

How we use information

  • Provide core inventory, shopping list, barcode scanning, Photo Identify, pattern matching, sharing, and community features.
  • Authenticate accounts, secure user data, prevent abuse, and operate admin/support workflows.
  • Analyze app reliability, performance, and feature usage so we can improve the product.
  • Send account, support, feedback, and product-related messages when needed.

Third-party processors

We use service providers to operate the app:

  • Supabase for authentication, database hosting, storage, and related infrastructure.
  • Apple when you choose Sign in with Apple in the iOS app.
  • Vercel for hosting, serverless APIs, Vercel Analytics, Speed Insights, logs, and performance diagnostics.
  • Fathom Analytics for privacy-focused website analytics.
  • Resend for transactional and support email delivery.
  • AI/photo processing providers when you use Photo Identify or related image features, and to match the columns of a spreadsheet you import.
  • AvantLink for affiliate attribution on the website only. AvantLink is disabled inside the native app.

We do not use information from the native app to track you across apps or websites owned by other companies.

Sharing and public content

Your private inventory, shopping list, and workbench data are not public. Custom patterns you create are public by default: anyone with a pattern's link can see its name, photo, description, materials, steps, tutorial link, and the credit name you choose (or “a community member” if you leave it blank). Your pattern notes and material notes are never shown publicly. You can make any pattern private at any time, which turns its link off; patterns you created before public became the default stay private until you choose otherwise. Search engines are asked not to index a public pattern, and it is not listed in the Community library, unless you submit it for community approval and an admin approves it.

Public pattern pages also show one contributor badge you have earned, next to your credit name. To award badges for visits, we count visits to public patterns: for each visit we keep a one-way code made from the visitor's IP address, browser and the date. It can't be linked from one day to the next, and we don't store the IP address itself. Your own visits and automated crawlers are not counted.

Signed-in members can browse public patterns in the app, newest first, and like them. A pattern shows how many likes it has, not who liked it. When you like a pattern, its owner gets a notification that someone liked it, without your name. You can take a like back at any time.

The monthly Top Tyers board, visible to signed-in members, ranks members by points from their activity that month: public patterns they share, likes and visits those patterns get, patterns accepted into the Community library, likes they give, materials they add, and flies they mark tied. It shows a generated nickname by default, never your account name or email. In Settings you can switch to the credit name from your patterns or hide from the board. Only you can see where your own points came from. When a month ends, we save each member's final points and place for that month, so past boards stay the same and the top 3 can earn the Top Tyer badge. These records are deleted with your account.

Retention and deletion

We retain account and user content while your account is active or as needed to provide the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and maintain backups. Photo Identify source images are scheduled for deletion after 30 days and can be deleted sooner from scan history. You can permanently delete your account and user content from in-app Settings, or contact us at support@flytyinginventory.com for help.

Your choices

  • You can edit or delete many materials, shopping list items, and custom patterns in the app.
  • You can choose whether to submit or publicly share custom patterns.
  • You can choose how you appear on the Top Tyers board, or hide from it, in Settings.
  • You can turn off use of Photo Identify results for model improvement in Settings.
  • You can choose not to use camera, barcode, or Photo Identify features.
  • You can contact support to ask about access, correction, or deletion of your data.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to support@flytyinginventory.com. For help using the app, visit Support.