Last updated: October 1, 2026
North Pacific Fishery Management Council (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates this website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection and use of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
Definitions
- Service: Service is this website operated by North Pacific Fishery Management Council
- Personal Data: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
- Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected either by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself.
- Cookies: Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Information Collection and Use
We may collect different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you. By using the essential features of the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this policy.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Country
- IP address may be collected by some services for analytics, security and spam-prevention purposes
Usage Data & Analytics
We may collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This may include your device type, operating system, browser version, the pages of our Service you visit, the time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Use of Data
We use the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
- To monitor the usage of our Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
Examples of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use session cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Analytics Cookies. We use analytics cookies to monitor and analyze website traffic and usage.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Strictly necessary cookies, required for the Service to function, are always active.
Non-essential cookies such as analytics or advertising cookies are inactive by default and only activate after you give affirmative consent through the cookie consent banner on our Service.
Please see our Cookie Policy for more information or to change your consent preferences if desired.