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Privacy Statement

Last Updated: April 28, 2026

In The Spread, LLC ("ITS," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard information when you visit www.inthespread.com, access our subscription video service, or otherwise interact with us (collectively, the "Service").

By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our practices, please do not use the Service.

1. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through the Service, including the website, member account areas, instructional video library, blog, email communications, and any related applications or features that link to this Privacy Policy. It does not apply to information collected by third parties, including third-party websites or services that may link to or be accessible from the Service.

The Service is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, please review the International Data Transfers section below.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in three ways: information you provide directly, information collected automatically as you use the Service, and information we receive from third parties.

Information You Provide Directly

When you create an account, subscribe, contact us, or otherwise interact with the Service, you may provide:

Account information, including name, email address, password, billing address, and phone number
Payment information, processed by our payment service providers (we do not store full payment card numbers on our systems)
Profile information you choose to add, such as fishing interests, location preferences, or photo
Communications, including emails, support requests, survey responses, contest entries, and messages you send us
Content you submit, such as comments, reviews, or other user-generated content posted to the Service
Marketing preferences, including subscription choices for newsletters and promotional emails

Information Collected Automatically

When you access the Service, we and our service providers automatically collect:

Device and connection data, including IP address, device identifiers, operating system, browser type, language settings, and referring URLs
Usage data, including pages viewed, videos watched, watch duration, playback events (start, pause, completion), search queries within the Service, click paths, session timing, and interaction with features
Location data, including approximate location derived from IP address (we do not collect precise GPS location)
Cookie and similar technology data, as described in the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below

Information from Third Parties

We may receive information about you from:

Payment processors confirming transaction status
Analytics providers offering aggregated insights about Service usage
Marketing and advertising partners sharing campaign performance and audience data
Social media platforms when you choose to interact with the Service through a social login or share Service content
Service providers assisting with fraud prevention, identity verification, or customer support

3. Sensitive Personal Information

We do not knowingly collect Sensitive Personal Information as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) or comparable state laws. We do not collect government-issued identification numbers (other than as required for tax reporting), financial account credentials, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, union membership, genetic data, biometric identifiers, health information, or information about sex life or sexual orientation.

If you voluntarily submit any such information through communications with us, we will treat it consistently with your reasonable expectations and applicable law.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

Service delivery, including creating and maintaining your account, processing subscriptions, providing access to instructional videos, and enabling features you request
Payment processing, including billing, refund handling, and chargeback resolution
Customer support, including responding to inquiries and troubleshooting issues
Personalization, including recommending videos, customizing content displays, and remembering preferences
Communications, including transactional notices, account alerts, newsletters, promotional offers (with consent where required), and survey invitations
Analytics and improvement, including understanding how members use the Service, measuring content performance, identifying trends, and improving features
Marketing and advertising, including delivering relevant offers and measuring campaign effectiveness
Security and fraud prevention, including detecting unauthorized access, preventing abuse, and enforcing our Terms of Use
Legal compliance, including responding to lawful requests, defending legal claims, and complying with tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations
Business operations, including auditing, internal reporting, and corporate transactions

5. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process your personal data under the following legal bases:

Performance of a contract, when processing is necessary to provide the Service you have subscribed to
Legitimate interests, including operating, securing, and improving the Service, and conducting marketing where we have assessed that your rights and freedoms do not override our interests
Consent, including for certain marketing communications and non-essential cookies, which you may withdraw at any time
Legal obligation, when processing is required to comply with applicable law

6. How We Share Your Information

We share information only as described below. We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration.

Service Providers

We share information with vendors that perform services on our behalf, including:

Cloud hosting and content delivery providers
Payment processors and billing platforms
Email service providers and marketing automation tools
Analytics and product measurement providers
Customer support and helpdesk software providers
Fraud prevention and security service providers
Professional advisors, including legal counsel and accountants

These providers are bound by contractual obligations to use your information only for the purposes we direct and to maintain appropriate security safeguards.

Advertising and Marketing Partners

We may share limited information with advertising partners to deliver relevant advertising, measure ad performance, and reach similar audiences. Some of these activities may constitute "sharing" or "selling" under California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and other state privacy laws. See the Your Privacy Rights section below for opt-out information.

Legal and Safety Disclosures

We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to:

Comply with applicable law, court orders, subpoenas, or other legal process
Respond to lawful requests from public authorities, including for national security or law enforcement purposes
Protect the rights, property, or safety of ITS, our members, or others
Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected fraud, security breaches, or violations of our Terms of Use

Business Transfers

If ITS is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will provide notice before your information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

With Your Direction

We share information when you direct us to do so, including when you choose to share content through social media, refer a friend, or participate in joint promotions.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our service providers use cookies, web beacons, pixels, software development kits, and similar technologies to operate and improve the Service. The categories include:

Strictly necessary cookies, required for authentication, security, and core Service functionality
Performance and analytics cookies, helping us understand how the Service is used so we can improve it
Functionality cookies, remembering your preferences and prior interactions
Advertising cookies, supporting personalized advertising and measuring its effectiveness

You can control cookies through your browser settings, through opt-out tools offered by industry self-regulatory programs (Digital Advertising Alliance at optout.aboutads.info, Network Advertising Initiative at optout.networkadvertising.org), and through device-level controls for advertising identifiers. Disabling certain cookies may limit Service functionality.

We honor opt-out preference signals as described in the Global Privacy Control section below.

8. Video Viewing Information

ITS is a subscription video service. The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and similar state laws govern how providers handle video viewing records.
We use information about which videos you watch to provide the Service, recommend related content, measure engagement, and improve our instructional library. We do not disclose your video viewing records to third parties except as permitted by the VPPA, including:

With your informed, written consent (which you may withdraw at any time)
To service providers acting on our behalf and bound by confidentiality obligations
In response to a valid court order or warrant
As otherwise expressly permitted under applicable video privacy law

You may withdraw consent for sharing your viewing information through your account settings or by contacting us at privacy@inthespread.com.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including providing the Service, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing agreements. Specific retention periods include:

Active account information, retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period after closure to handle billing reconciliation, support requests, and disputes
Transaction and payment records, retained for at least seven years to satisfy tax and accounting requirements
Marketing records, retained until you unsubscribe or object, plus a brief suppression period to honor your preference
Server logs and security records, typically retained for 12 to 24 months
Customer support communications, retained for up to three years

After applicable retention periods expire, we delete, anonymize, or aggregate the information.

10. Data Security

We implement administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These include encryption of data in transit, access controls, network monitoring, vendor due diligence, and employee training.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot warrant absolute security, and you provide information at your own risk. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your personal information, we will notify you in accordance with applicable law.

11. International Data Transfers

We operate the Service from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate.

For transfers from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we rely on appropriate transfer mechanisms, including the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable. You may request a copy of the safeguards we apply by contacting privacy@inthespread.com.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

Right to know or access, including the categories and specific pieces of information we hold about you
Right to delete or erasure, subject to legal exceptions
Right to correct or rectify, including inaccurate or incomplete information
Right to data portability, in a structured, commonly used format
Right to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising
Right to limit use of Sensitive Personal Information
Right to opt out of certain automated decision-making, including profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects
Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
Right to withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent
Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may submit a request by emailing privacy@inthespread.com or by writing to the address in the Contact Us section. We will verify your identity before responding, typically by confirming information associated with your account.

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, subject to verification requirements under applicable law.

We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

California Residents

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), provides additional rights. The categories of personal information we have collected, the sources, the purposes for collection, and the categories of recipients are described throughout this Privacy Policy.

In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following CCPA categories of personal information: identifiers, customer records, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity, geolocation data (approximate), and inferences. We may share these categories with service providers, advertising partners, and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration. We do share certain identifiers and internet activity information with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising, which California law treats as "sharing." You may opt out using the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link on our website or by emailing privacy@inthespread.com.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

Other US State Residents

Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws have rights similar to those described above, subject to state-specific exceptions and verification procedures. To exercise these rights, contact us using the methods above.

You may appeal a denial of a privacy rights request by replying to our response or by emailing privacy@inthespread.com with the subject line "Privacy Rights Appeal."

EEA, UK, and Swiss Residents

In addition to the rights above, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. We encourage you to contact us first so we can address your concerns.

13. Global Privacy Control and Opt-Out Signals

We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) and similar opt-out preference signals as required by California, Colorado, Connecticut, and other state privacy laws. When we detect a valid signal from your browser or device, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for that browser or device. To apply your preference across all sessions and devices, please also submit a request through the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link or by contacting privacy@inthespread.com.

14. Automated Decision Making

We do not engage in automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you. We use automated processing for content recommendations, fraud detection, and personalization, but these processes do not result in decisions that meaningfully restrict your access to services, employment, credit, housing, education, or similar opportunities. If our practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any required disclosures.

15. Children's Privacy

The Service is intended for adults. You must be 18 years of age or older to subscribe. In jurisdictions where the age of majority is higher than 18, you must satisfy that age requirement.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in the United States, or under 16 in the European Economic Area and other jurisdictions where a higher age applies. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child below the applicable threshold without verifiable parental consent, we will delete it.

If you believe we have collected information from a child without appropriate consent, please contact privacy@inthespread.com.

16. Public Forums and User Content

When you post content publicly on the Service, including comments, reviews, or community contributions, that content and any personal information you include become accessible to others. Exercise care when posting publicly. We cannot control how other users handle your content, and information shared in public areas may be collected and used by third parties.

17. Third-Party Links and Services

The Service may contain links to third-party websites, applications, or services that we do not operate or control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of any third party before providing information to them.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will notify you by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Service with a revised "Last Updated" date and, where required, by sending you a notice through email or in-account messaging. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy periodically.

Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy, except where additional steps are required by law.

19. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

In The Spread, LLC Attn: Privacy P.O. Box 965 Tallahassee, FL 32302 United States

Email: privacy@inthespread.com

For privacy rights requests, please use the subject line "Privacy Rights Request" so we can route your inquiry promptly.