Privacy Policy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

RiverReady (riverready.co.uk) is a small, independently-run river-conditions service for anglers in the UK. This page explains what personal data we collect from you, why, and what rights you have over it. We're based in the UK and handle your data in line with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Who we are

RiverReady is run by an individual (not a company), acting as the data controller for the personal data described below. You can contact us about anything on this page at privacy@riverready.co.uk.

What we collect

If you create an account, we collect and store:

• Your email address
• Your password — this is hashed by our authentication provider (Supabase); we never see or store it in readable form
• An optional display name, if you choose to set one
• Whether you've opted in to occasional email updates (off by default)
• Which rivers and stations you save to your account, and any personal nickname you give them
• Your target-species preferences for each river you save

Our public map also offers a "nearest to me" button using your browser's location. The nearest station is worked out in your browser, so your location is never sent to us, stored, or linked to any account, whether or not you're signed in.

River levels, weather forecasts, and similar conditions data are about physical locations, not about you, and aren't personal data.

Why we collect it, and on what basis

• To provide the service you signed up for (your account, your saved rivers, your preferences) — necessary to perform our contract with you.
• To send you occasional updates, only if you've explicitly opted in — based on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time from your account page.
• To keep the service secure (e.g. preventing abuse of the sign-up process) — based on our legitimate interest in running a trustworthy service.

Who we share it with

We use a small number of other services to run RiverReady, each acting as a data processor on our behalf:

• Supabase — hosts our database and handles account sign-in/sign-up and password storage.
• Vercel — hosts the RiverReady website itself.

We also read public data from the Environment Agency, SEPA, and Natural Resources Wales (river levels and rainfall), the Office of Public Works in Ireland and NVE in Norway (river levels), and from MET Norway (weather forecasts and moon times, for the location of a river) — this is a one-way, read-only fetch of public data; no personal data is ever sent to them. Where each station sits on its river comes from Ordnance Survey's OS Open Rivers map, downloaded once; nothing is sent to Ordnance Survey at all.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing purposes.

How long we keep it

We keep your account data for as long as your account exists. You can permanently delete your account and everything tied to it at any time from the "Danger zone" section of your account page — this happens immediately and isn't reversible. Rivers or stations you added to the shared catalog stay in place, since other people may also have saved them.

The river data we keep

River readings aren't personal data, but for completeness: we keep the readings we collect so we can show trends and history. Natural Resources Wales asks that its unvalidated data isn't kept for more than a year, so readings and daily history for Welsh stations are deleted automatically once they're a year old.

Not a flood warning service

RiverReady is for planning a fishing trip. River readings come from the agencies automatically, aren't checked, and can be late or wrong, and the level forecast is an early estimate. Never rely on RiverReady for your safety or to decide whether it's safe to be near the water. For flood warnings, check England, Scotland or Wales, or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188. In Ireland, check floodinfo.ie; in Norway, Varsom.

Cookies

We only use strictly-necessary cookies to keep you signed in. We don't use advertising or analytics cookies, so there's no cookie consent banner — strictly-necessary cookies are exempt from that requirement.

Without an account, the favourites and target species you pick on the map are kept in your own browser (its local storage), not sent to us. They stay on that device until you remove them or clear your browsing data. If you then create an account or sign in, they're moved onto your account and removed from the browser.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Ask what personal data we hold about you, and get a copy of it
• Ask us to correct anything that's wrong
• Ask us to delete your data
• Ask us to restrict or object to how we use it
• Withdraw consent (e.g. for email updates) at any time
• Receive your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these, email privacy@riverready.co.uk. If you're not happy with how we've handled your data, you can also complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

Children

RiverReady isn't intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes to this policy

If we make significant changes to how we handle your data, we'll update this page and change the "last updated" date above.