Terms and Conditions

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By accessing, browsing, signing up for, or using tacklemap (the “Service”) you accept these Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”). If you do not accept them, do not use the Service. Creating an account requires you to confirm you have read and agree to these Terms.

The Service is operated by the tacklemap team (“we”, “us”, “tacklemap”). You can reach us at hello@pierswarmers.com.

2. What tacklemap is

tacklemap collates publicly known fishing access points and offshore marks together with target species, short access notes, and approximate coordinates. We make every reasonable effort to keep this information accurate, but coverage is incomplete, conditions change, and errors are possible. Information on the Service is provided for general reference only and is not advice, not a navigational aid, and not a substitute for the relevant authoritative source (for marine safety, charts, regulations, or anything else).

3. Accounts

Some features require an account. By creating one, you represent that you are at least 16 years old, that the information you provide is accurate, and that you are authorised to provide it. You are responsible for the activity on your account and for keeping your sign-in credentials (including email access used for magic-link sign-in) secure.

One account per person. Don't impersonate another person, authority, or organisation. We may suspend or terminate accounts that we reasonably believe breach these Terms.

4. Your content and the licence you grant us

“Your Content” means anything you submit, post, or upload to the Service — including waypoints, coordinates, access notes, catch reports, comments, photos (if and when supported), descriptions, species lists, edit suggestions, and any associated metadata.

You retain ownership of Your Content. You grant tacklemap, however, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, adapt, modify, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, aggregate, anonymise, create derivative works from, and otherwise exploit Your Content, in whole or in part, in any medium now known or later developed, including for commercial purposes. This licence covers (without limitation):

• Displaying Your Content on the Service to other users.
• Building derived data products — for example aggregated catch statistics, seasonality forecasts, ranked species lists, recommended spots, or analytics — and offering those products on the Service or through other channels.
• Including Your Content in paid features, paid APIs, marketing material, data licensing agreements with third parties, mobile applications, or other commercial offerings.
• Combining Your Content with content from other users or with our own data, and using the result for any of the purposes above.

You also grant each other user a non-exclusive licence to access Your Content through the Service in the ordinary way the Service makes it available.

Your representations. By submitting Your Content you confirm that: (a) you own it or have all rights needed to grant the licence above; (b) it does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights; (c) it does not breach any law (including marine park, Indigenous heritage, or biosecurity rules); and (d) it is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

We are not obliged to use, host, or retain Your Content. We may remove, hide, or edit Your Content at any time for any reason consistent with these Terms.

5. Acceptable use

You must not:

• Post content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, or that incites violence or illegal activity.
• Post content that infringes anyone's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.
• Submit waypoints in restricted, sanctuary, no-take, or privately owned areas where access or fishing is not generally permitted, or that disclose culturally sensitive Indigenous sea-country information.
• Submit deliberately false, misleading, or spammy data.
• Scrape, crawl, or download the Service or its data in bulk except via interfaces we expressly provide for that purpose. Aggregating our data into a competing product is not permitted without a written licence from us.
• Interfere with the Service or its users — including by introducing malware, attempting to bypass security or rate limits, or accessing accounts that are not yours.
• Use the Service to send unsolicited communications or to harvest personal information.

We may report serious breaches to law enforcement and cooperate with any lawful investigation.

6. Suspension, termination, and what happens to your content

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or pose a risk to the Service or other users. Suspension or termination does not entitle you to a refund (the Service is free; this Term is here for the event that paid features are introduced in future).

You may deactivate your account at any time from your account settings. On deactivation:

• Your profile information (name, email, profile image) will be removed from the user table and your account will no longer be able to sign in.
• Your Content — waypoints, catch reports, comments, submissions — will be retained under the licence you granted in section 4. The byline on your existing public contributions will be replaced with “Former member”.
• This balances the right-to-be-forgotten of your profile with the value to the community of the catch-and-conditions data you contributed.

If you want Your Content fully removed (not just unlinked from your profile), email hello@pierswarmers.com with the specific items you are asking us to remove. We will consider these requests on a case-by-case basis, subject to our legal obligations and the licence granted above.

7. Privacy and the data we hold about you

We collect the minimum we need to operate the Service: your email address, the name and image associated with your sign-in (e.g. from Google or Apple if you use those providers), session cookies, and the contributions you make.

We do not sell or rent your profile information to anyone. We do not share your email address, name, or personal details with third parties except:

• Service providers we use to run the Service (for example Cloudflare for hosting, Resend for sending magic-link emails, Google/Apple for OAuth sign-in). Those providers process the data only on our instructions and only for the purpose of running the Service.
• Where we are legally required to (e.g. valid court order, serious safety concern).

Public contributions (waypoints, catch reports, comments) are visible to other users. Your contributions are not “profile information” in the sense above — they form part of the data we may use commercially under section 4, but they appear publicly under your chosen display name only while your account is active.

8. Security, breaches, and limits on our responsibility

We take reasonable steps to protect the Service and the data we hold — including using a reputable infrastructure provider (Cloudflare), enforcing access controls on administrative tooling, and minimising the personal data we collect.

However, no internet service or data store can be guaranteed secure. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for any loss, damage, distress, or consequence arising from unauthorised access, hacking, interception, or disclosure of data held by us or our service providers — including but not limited to data breaches affecting your account information, your contributions, or any derived data.

If we become aware of a data breach that materially affects your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to notify you and any relevant regulator as required by applicable privacy law (in Australia, the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)).

9. Skipper's responsibility (safety)

If you take a craft on the water — power, sail, kayak, paddle, or otherwise — you accept full responsibility for the safety of the craft and its occupants. Before you depart you should at minimum:

• Use proper marine charts, an up-to-date GPS plotter, and an independent depth source.
• Check the current weather forecast, swell, tide, and barometric trend.
• Confirm the vessel is seaworthy, fuelled, and equipped to the standard required for the trip.
• Carry the safety equipment required by your local maritime authority — in Australia, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) publishes the relevant safety requirements and guidance.
• File a trip plan with someone ashore and monitor the appropriate VHF channel.

Do not navigate using waypoints from this site. Treat coordinates here as a rough indication only — the actual mark may be a reef, bommie, wreck, landmark, headland, or general fishing ground rather than a safe point to steer toward.

Night, fog, and adverse weather: navigating in the dark, in poor visibility, or in heavy weather is always dangerous. Even with an up-to-date chart plotter, you should have intimate first-hand knowledge of the area before heading out in those conditions. Do not rely on waypoints from this site for night navigation.

10. Some markers are landmarks, not fishing spots on the water

Some entries describe land-based features used as visual reference for offshore marks (a headland, a tower, a building on the foreshore) or represent the centre of a broader fishing area. They are not points you should drive a boat to.

11. Local rules — check before you fish

Marine parks, sanctuary zones, no-take zones, seasonal closures, size and bag limits, licensing, gear restrictions, and access permissions change regularly and vary by jurisdiction. Before fishing or anchoring at any waypoint:

• Check your state, territory, or country's current marine park and sanctuary boundaries.
• Verify size, bag, possession, and seasonal limits with the local fisheries authority.
• Hold the licences required for the species, gear, and method you intend to use.
• Respect private property, Indigenous sea country, and local access conventions.

Information on this site does not constitute permission to access, anchor, or fish at any location.

12. No warranty

The Service and all content on it (including coordinates, access notes, species lists, catch reports, conditions data, sun/moon times, and any derived analytics) is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any implied warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Use of the Service is entirely at your own risk.

13. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any right, guarantee, condition, warranty, or remedy that applicable law — including the Australian Consumer Law — makes non-excludable. Subject to that, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

• tacklemap and its operators, employees, contributors, and service providers are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive loss or damage arising from your use of (or inability to use) the Service or your reliance on information on it. This includes — without limitation — injury, loss of life, property damage, fines, environmental harm, lost profits, lost data, lost contributions, and reputational harm.
• Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or related to the Service is limited, at our option, to (a) the re-supply of the relevant service, or (b) AUD 100.

14. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless tacklemap and its operators against any claim, loss, liability, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your misuse of the Service; or (d) your infringement of any law or any third party's rights in connection with your use of the Service.

15. Intellectual property in the Service

Other than Your Content, all materials on the Service — software, design, layout, text, illustrations (including species illustrations and basemap styling), trade marks, and aggregated data — are owned by tacklemap or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms, no rights are granted to you in those materials.

The name “tacklemap” and any associated marks are trade marks of the tacklemap operators and may not be used without prior written permission.

16. Conditions, tides, and third-party data

Wind, wave, sea-surface temperature, and air-temperature values shown on waypoint pages come from Open-Meteo (CC-BY-4.0), drawing on ECMWF and other global model outputs. Marine forecast bulletins shown alongside come from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). Both sources are forecasts, not observations, and cached for 15–60 minutes at our edge. They are informational only and not suitable for navigation, safety-of-life decisions, or planning passage at sea. Always cross-check against the live BOM marine forecast before heading out.

Sun and moon times are computed locally using SunCalc (BSD-2-Clause). Tide-station links go to the BOM tide-prediction service — we deliberately do not predict tides on-site; BOM's published tables are authoritative.

17. Third-party links

The Service contains links to third-party sites and resources (for example BOM, AMSA, Wikipedia, Open-Meteo). We do not control those resources and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or availability. Linking does not imply endorsement.

18. Reporting issues

If you spot inaccurate, unsafe, or sensitive information — including spots inside a sanctuary zone, on private land, or that are culturally sensitive — please email hello@pierswarmers.com or use the in-app abuse-report tools. We will review and remove or correct the entry as appropriate.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will publish the updated Terms at this URL with a new effective date and bump the version. For substantive changes we may re-prompt account holders to accept the new version before continuing to use account features. Continued use of the Service after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

20. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales for any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms, without prejudice to either party's right to seek interim relief in any other competent court.

21. Contact

Questions, takedown requests, data-access requests, or anything else: email hello@pierswarmers.com.