Effective date: September 15th, 2026
Fishing Tips Daily is operated by FTD LLC, based in Texas, United States (“Fishing Tips Daily,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). These Terms govern access to fishingtipsdaily.com and its articles, images, water and fish directories, search tools, maps, databases, feeds, and related services (the “Site”).
1. Agreement and permitted use
These Terms apply when you accept them or otherwise enter into an enforceable agreement with us concerning use of the Site. If you do not agree, do not use the Site. If you act for an organization, you must have authority to bind it. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that applicable law does not permit us to restrict.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable permission to browse the Site and use its features for personal, noncommercial fishing research. You may share links to our pages and print or save reasonable portions for your own trip planning, retaining attribution and rights notices. Section 4 separately permits search engines and AI services, including commercial services, to discover, index, retrieve, and summarize our public pages under its conditions. These permissions do not authorize cloning, bulk republication, resale, or reconstruction of our database. Separate written licenses may authorize additional uses.
2. Content and database rights
We or our licensors retain all applicable rights in original articles, photographs, illustrations, software, branding, and protectable selection, coordination, and arrangement of Site material. Access does not transfer ownership or grant a license beyond the permissions expressly stated here. You may not remove rights notices or suggest that we sponsor or endorse your service.
We do not claim exclusive copyright ownership of individual facts, public-domain material, or third-party material that we do not own. Applicable third-party licenses and nonwaivable legal rights remain in effect. Independent collection of facts from lawful sources is not prohibited by these Terms merely because those facts also appear on the Site.
3. No cloning, unauthorized copying, or database extraction
We welcome discovery and referrals from search engines and AI services as described in Section 4. Except for that permission, our prior written authorization, or uses that applicable law permits notwithstanding these Terms, you must not, directly or through another person or service:
- Use a crawler, scraper, bot, artificial-intelligence agent, automated browser, script, or other process to download or harvest Site material for cloning, unauthorized republication, resale, or reconstruction of our content or database.
- Systematically copy material manually or automatically to reconstruct all or a substantial portion of our directories or database. Repeated small requests do not become authorized merely because each request retrieves a small amount of information.
- Use Site material to train, pretrain, fine-tune, or distill AI or machine-learning models, or compile model-training datasets, without our written permission. Retrieving and processing pages to produce a permitted answer under Section 4 is allowed and is not prohibited by this clause merely because an AI system performs it.
- Create or distribute a mirror, downloadable archive, reconstructed directory, or reusable bulk dataset of Site material. Internal indexing and retrieval representations used solely for the permitted activities in Section 4 are allowed; making those collections available as a substitute for our Site or database is not.
- Use extracted Site material to create or populate a competing or substitute directory, fishing application, mapping product, content service, database, data feed, or commercial dataset.
- Sell, sublicense, redistribute, mirror, or syndicate unauthorized extracted material, including through an API or AI service. Brief attributed answers and search results permitted by Section 4 are expressly excluded from this prohibition.
- Circumvent access restrictions, authentication, rate limits, bot controls, or blocks; rotate identities, proxies, or addresses to evade them; conceal the purpose of automated requests; or impersonate an authorized crawler.
- Use search, pagination, feeds, structured data, or public endpoints to bypass these restrictions. An endpoint’s public accessibility does not itself grant a bulk-use license.
Beyond the express permissions in these Terms, we reserve our rights concerning text and data mining and machine-learning uses to the extent those rights exist under applicable law. Silence, technical accessibility, absence of a login requirement, or omission of a particular crawler from a robots file is not our affirmative permission for a prohibited use. Our own authorized service providers may perform the specific tasks we authorize on our behalf.
4. Search engines, AI discovery, attribution, and referrals
We expressly permit legitimate search engines and AI search, browsing, and assistant services, including Google, Bing, ChatGPT, and other AI services, to access and crawl our publicly accessible pages to discover our content, answer users’ questions, recommend relevant resources, and direct visitors to Fishing Tips Daily. This permission applies to both free and commercial services; no separate permission is required for uses that comply with this section.
Permitted activities include indexing pages, retrieving relevant information, displaying search-result snippets, and providing brief excerpts or concise summaries in answers. Services may make the technical copies, caches, embeddings, and internal retrieval indexes reasonably necessary for those activities, provided they use them only for the permitted discovery, retrieval, and referral purposes and do not expose or distribute them as a bulk collection of our material. The number of pages indexed alone does not make an otherwise compliant search or AI-discovery index prohibited bulk copying.
When an answer or result quotes or materially relies on our content, identify Fishing Tips Daily as the source and include a clear, clickable link to the relevant original page. Present excerpts and summaries in context, avoid misleading attribution, and do not imply our endorsement or affiliation. We do not require attribution for independently obtained public facts merely because those facts also appear on our Site.
This permission does not authorize reproducing complete articles or substantial portions of them, reassembling our content through repeated excerpts, or turning our records into a substitute lake directory, fishing database, or content library. Attribution or a link does not by itself authorize copying beyond the scope permitted here. Separate model training remains subject to Section 3.
Crawlers and agents must respect applicable robots instructions, authentication requirements, and reasonable rate limits, and must not bypass security controls or access private or restricted areas. This permission does not guarantee that a particular crawler will be technically able to access the Site.
Ordinary browser functions, assistive technologies, and accessibility tools used to help an individual read the Site are permitted, provided they are not used for prohibited bulk collection or redistribution. These permissions do not require us to provide unrestricted access or waive applicable ownership rights.
5. Fishing information, access, and safety
The Site provides general information, not a guarantee of fishing conditions, legal access, fish presence, species identification, navigability, safe ice, water quality, or catch success. A water’s inclusion, Featured label, map marker, fish list, or suggested route does not mean it is open to fishing or that public access exists. Some waters are private, restricted, seasonally closed, or subject to changing rules.
Before traveling or fishing, independently confirm current regulations, licenses, seasons, limits, bait and boating restrictions, ownership, access permission, closures, and fish-consumption advisories with the responsible authority or landowner. Official rules and posted restrictions control over any conflicting Site information. Never enter private property without permission.
Coordinates, acreage, depth, volume, access points, weather, and forecasts may be approximate, outdated, incomplete, or incorrect. Maps are not navigational charts, emergency services, or surveys of property boundaries. Do not rely on the Site to decide whether to boat, swim, wade, travel on ice, or consume a fish. Fishing and outdoor recreation involve risks, including serious injury and death. Use appropriate equipment, supervision, and judgment, and seek qualified assistance where needed.
Articles may include editorial opinions, estimates, and content developed with research or automated assistance. Descriptions and recommendations do not constitute legal, medical, or individualized professional advice. Submit potential errors to fishingtipsdaily.com/contact
6. Advertising, affiliate links, and third parties
We display advertising and use affiliate links. We may earn compensation when you follow certain links or make qualifying purchases. Relevant commercial relationships should also be disclosed with the applicable content. Compensation does not create a guarantee about a product or vendor.
Third-party websites, advertisements, maps, products, and services have their own terms and practices. We do not control their availability, accuracy, safety, fulfillment, or privacy practices. Transactions with third parties are between you and that provider, subject to any rights applicable law gives you.
7. Submissions and misuse
If you send corrections, suggestions, photographs, or other material for consideration, you must have the rights needed to do so and must not include unlawful content or another person’s confidential information. You retain ownership of your submission. For material you expressly submit for publication, you grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, edit, display, and distribute that material in connection with the Site and its promotion, subject to applicable law and any separate agreement. Private privacy requests and ordinary private correspondence are not submissions for publication.
Do not send spam, malware, deceptive requests, or material that infringes others’ rights; disrupt the Site; attempt unauthorized access; or harvest personal information about visitors. Report suspected infringement or misuse using fishingtipsdaily.com/contact , identifying the material, its URL, the relevant rights, and a way to contact you.
8. Availability and enforcement
We may investigate suspected misuse, impose proportionate access controls, suspend unauthorized access, and pursue remedies available under applicable law. These may include injunctive relief, proven damages, and recoverable costs or attorney fees when authorized by law or an enforceable agreement. These Terms do not impose an automatic per-request fine or establish a right to damages unavailable under applicable law.
We may change or discontinue features. Any action affecting personal information remains subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law. Ending access does not erase obligations or claims that validly arose before termination. Provisions concerning ownership, prohibited reuse, liability, and disputes survive to the extent necessary to give them effect.
9. Warranty disclaimer
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” WE DISCLAIM IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED, OR ERROR-FREE. NO INFORMAL STATEMENT CREATES A WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN AN AUTHORIZED WRITTEN AGREEMENT.
This disclaimer does not exclude warranties or protections that applicable law does not allow us to exclude.
10. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FISHING TIPS DAILY AND ITS OWNERS, PERSONNEL, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR DATA ARISING FROM USE OF THE SITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE SITE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF US $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE RELEVANT SITE SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
These limitations do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or any liability or statutory remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. They are not a release of liability for personal injury where such a release would be invalid. Your mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.
11. Responsibility for third-party claims
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify us for third-party claims, losses, and reasonable legal costs caused by your unlawful use of the Site, infringement of another person’s rights, or material breach of these Terms. This obligation does not extend to claims caused by our own wrongdoing. We will provide reasonable notice and cooperation, and no settlement may impose an admission or nonmonetary obligation on you without your consent. Mandatory consumer protections apply.
12. Governing law and disputes
Texas law governs these Terms, without using conflict-of-law rules to deprive you of mandatory protections available under applicable law. Subject to those protections and applicable jurisdictional requirements, disputes will be brought in a state or federal court of competent jurisdiction in Texas. Nothing prevents you from contacting a regulator, exercising a nonwaivable right, or bringing a claim in another forum when applicable law requires it.
You may contact us at fishingtipsdaily.com/contact to seek an informal resolution. Informal contact is not a condition that postpones or eliminates a legally protected claim. These Terms do not establish mandatory arbitration or waive class proceedings.
13. Changes and other terms
We will identify revisions with an updated effective date and provide additional notice or obtain renewed agreement when required. Revisions operate prospectively and do not retroactively authorize new uses of personal information. The Privacy Policy describes personal-data practices; accepting these Terms is not blanket consent to advertising tracking or processing sensitive information.
If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue to apply where lawful. Failure to enforce a provision once is not a permanent waiver. A separate signed license controls if it expressly conflicts with these Terms for the licensed use.
14. Contact
Fishing Tips Daily — FTD LLC
Texas, United States