Updated April 2026
Compasses & Quests (https://compassesandquests.com) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data.
By using our services, you understand and consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your data to our facilities in the United States and those third parties we share your data with as described in this Policy and our Terms of Service Agreement.
Information we collect
Compasses & Quests collects both personal and non-personal data.
Personal Data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal Data we may collect includes:
- Identification and Contact Data: name, email, username.
- IT Information: IP address, cookie data
Contact information is only collected for email subscription, submissions to our contact form, and comment submissions. You are not required to provide this information when using our site. We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed as long as the user interacts with the service.
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by mail in the context of receiving help through a customer support channel, participation in giveaways, and to respond to your inquiries.
We do not collect protected classification characteristics, commercial information, biometric information, geolocation data, audio or visual information, professional information, education information, inferences drawn from other personal information, or sensitive personal information.
Non-Personal Data is any information not relating to an identified or identifiable person. Non-Personal Data we may collect includes:
- Browser and Device Data: IP address, device type, unique user device number, device manufacturer and model, type of browser or operating system, dates and times of use, screen resolution, plug- ins, add-ons, location, and the version of the services you are using.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: time spent on the services, pages visited, and email campaign performance. Learn more about cookies below.
- Aggregate Information: data about how you use the services combined with data about how others use the services in order to help us better develop new features and tailor the services.
How we may use your information
We may use your personal data to:
- Provide the services;
- Encourage a safe online experience and enforce our policies;
- Customize your experience and analyze usage of, improve and measure interest in, and inform you about the services;
- Provide you with information that may affect your use of the services;
- Communicate marketing and promotional offers;
- Provide response to queries
We may use your non-personal data for any purpose including, but not limited to:
- Measuring traffic patterns;
- Understanding demographics, customer interest, and other trends among users;
- Providing, improving, and modifying the services; and
- For promotional and marketing purposes.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, any profile photo and information provided in the comment is visible to the public.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Compasses & Quests employs the use of cookies, which allows the site to improve your browsing experience and track the following information:
- This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- When you submit data through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Third-party cookies are utilized by Google Analytics to collect data on website usage patterns, and Google AdSense utilizes cookies to deliver ads that are relevant and limit the number of times a certain ad is delivered.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, X, and Threads will set cookies through our site which may be used on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
The cookies we employ include:
- Necessary Cookies: required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
- Functional Cookies: perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, remembering language preferences, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
- Analytical Cookies: used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Our site implements third-party analytical cookies that have a default lifetime of between one session and 400 days.
For more information on how Google’s third-party cookies operate and handle your data, see: Google Privacy Policy. - Performance Cookies: used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
- Advertisement Cookies: used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages users visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns. Our site implements third-party advertisement cookies through Google AdSense that have a default lifetime of between one session and 6 months.
For more information on how Google’s third-party cookies operate and handle your data, see: Google Privacy Policy.
You can prevent the setting of non-essential cookies by adjusting your preferences in the cookie banner (found at the bottom left of all pages on our site). You can also prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. See how to do so in Chrome here.
Third-party partners may use cookies or other tracking technologies to provide you advertising on other sites based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you want to opt-out of interest-based advertising, please visit http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ or if located in the European Union, visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of this site.
Web Beacons
When we send emails to visitors or subscribers, we may use web beacons to track who opened the emails and clicked links to measure campaign performance and improve features for customers.
Caching
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Compasses & Quests has not and will never sell or lease any personal information to third parties.
We may disclose your personal data to:
- Service providers and others who help with our business operations, including, but not limited to, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
- Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the services;
- Our automated spam detection service through which visitor comments are checked;
- Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your personal data shared;
- Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons;
- Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence to: comply with legal process; respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; protect our operations; protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may disclose non-personal data for any purpose. Remember, non-personal data cannot be used to identify you or another person.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you subscribe to mail campaigns, contact information is retained indefinitely or until you opt to unsubscribe. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link or by notifying us at compassesandquests@gmail.com.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the information.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Requests can be made through our contact form or by sending a message to the email provided in the contact section below.
Verification process
Upon receiving your request for data erasure or correction, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with the information you have previously provided us.
We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. We will delete such information as soon as we finish verifying you.
Right to Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Users Under 18 Years of Age
Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 18. If we become aware that a child under the age of 18 has provided us with personal data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us. By using the services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 18.
Governing Law
These terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these terms will remain in effect. These terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have between us regarding the website.
Changes
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these terms at any time. By continuing to access or use our website after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about these terms, please contact us via our contact page or at compassesandquests@gmail.com