Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
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Last updated: January 2024

Please read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy carefully before using the https://compassesandquests.com/ website operated by us at Compasses & Quests.

Terms of Service

Agreement of Legal Terms

We operate the website https://compassesandquests.com/ (the “Site“), as well as any other related services that refer or link to these Legal Terms (collectively, the “Services“).

These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you“), and Compasses & Quests concerning your access to and use of the Services. Your access to and use of the Site is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these terms. These terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Site and its content. By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you disagree with any part of these Legal Terms, then you should discontinue use immediately.

Supplemental terms and conditions may be posted on the Services from time to time and are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Legal Terms at any time. We will update the “Last Updated” date of these Legal Terms when modifications have been made. You waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Legal Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted the changes made in the revised Legal Terms by your continued use of the Services after the revised Legal Terms are posted.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly provide the Services to users under the age of 18.

1. OUR SERVICES

The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject use to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our Intellectual Property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, “Content”), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos (collectively, the “Marks”) contained therein, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Our Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services “AS IS” for your personal, non-commercial use.

Your Use of Our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the “PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES” section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

access the Services
download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access

solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in these Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section or elsewhere in these Legal Terms, please address your request to: compassesandquests@gmail.com. If we ever grant you the permission to post, reproduce, or publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Content, and Marks.

Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of these Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

Your Submissions and Contributions

Please review this section and the “PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES” section carefully prior to using our Services to understand (a) the rights you give us and (b) the obligations you have when you post or upload any content through the Services.

Submissions: By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Service (“Submissions”), you agree to assign to us all intellectual property rights in such Submission. You agree that we shall own this Submission and be entitled to its unrestricted use and dissemination for any lawful purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgement or compensation to you.

Contributions: The Services may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, forums, and other functionality during which you may create, submit, post, display, transmit, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or through the Services, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photos, music, graphics, comments, reviews, suggestions, personal information, or other material (collectively, “Contributions”). Any Submission that is publicly posted shall also be treated as a Contribution.

You understand that Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and possibly through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including the use of your name, trademarks, and logos): By posting any Contributions, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferrable, royalty-free, worldwide right, and license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, store, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), and exploit your Contributions for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, your Contributions, and to sublicense the licenses granted in this section. Our use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

This license includes our use of your name, company name, and franchise name, as applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide.

You are responsible for what you post or upload: By sending us Submissions and/or posting Contributions through any part of the Services or making Contributions accessible through the Services by linking your account through the Services to any of your social networking accounts, you:

confirm that you have read and agree with our “PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES” and will not post, send, publish, upload, or transmit through the Services any Submission nor post any Contribution that is illegal, harassing, hateful, harmful, defamatory, obscene, bullying, abusive, discriminatory, threatening to any person or group, sexually explicit, false, inaccurate, deceitful, or misleading;
to the extent permissible by any applicable law, waive any and all moral rights to any such Submission and/or Contribution;
warrant that any such Submission or Contribution are original to you and that you have the necessary rights and licenses to submit such Submissions and/or Contributions and that you have full authority to grant us the above mentioned rights in relation to your Submissions and/or Contributions; and
warrant and represent that your Submissions and/or Contributions do not constitute confidential information.

You are solely responsible for your Submissions and/or Contributions and you expressly agree to reimburse us for any and all losses that we may suffer because of your breach of (a) this section, (b) any third party’s intellectual property rights, or (c) applicable law.

We may remove or edit your Content: Although we have no obligation to monitor any Contributions, we shall have the right to remove or edit any Contributions at any time without notice if, in our reasonable opinion, we consider such Contributions harmful or in breach of these Legal Terms. If we remove or edit any such Contributions, we may also suspend or disable your account and report you to the authorities.

3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that

you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms;
you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside;
you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise;
you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and
your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof).

4. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create, compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us;
trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive information;
circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content therein;
disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services;
use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations;
engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services;
upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming, that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services;
engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools;
delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content;
upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation clear graphics interchange formats (gifs), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanisms” or “pcms”);
interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services;
attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services or any portion of the Services;
except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up part of the Services;
except as may be the result of standard search engine or internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software;
make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses or users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses;
use the Services and/or Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise;
use the Services to advertise or offer to sell goods and services.

5. USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

Carefully read the Contributions information in the “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS” section above. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

the creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party;
you are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms;
you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name and likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms;
your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading;
your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation;
your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us);
your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone;
your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence;
your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule;
your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors;
your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap;
your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your right to use the Services.

6. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Services may contain (or you may be sent via the Services) links to other websites (“Third-Party Websites”) as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Content”). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Services or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Services, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us.

If you decide to leave the Services and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that these Legal Terms no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including the privacy and data-gathering practices, of any website to which you navigate from the Services or relating to any applications you use or install from the Services. Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites will be through other websites and through other companies, and we take no responsibility whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the applicable third party. You agree and acknowledge that you should hold us blameless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you shall hold us blameless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any Third-Party Content or any contact with Third-Party Websites.

We will take into account complaints against any link on our website that outside parties and users may find inappropriate, inaccurate, or objectionable, but we release ourselves of any obligation to remove the link(s) in question.

7. ADVERTISERS

We allow advertisers to display their advertisements and other information in certain areas of the Services, such as sidebar advertisements or banner advertisements. We simply provide the space to place such advertisements, and have no other relationship with advertisers. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the content of these advertisements.

Affiliates

Our Site contains affiliate links and programs. We may also promote our affiliates via our social channels and through marketing communications. When you access affiliates through the Services and make purchases on these third-party platforms, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.

The opinions we post on products and services are our own. We have not been given any free products, services, or anything else by these companies in exchange for mentioning them on this site. Our affiliate partners may also use cookies and collect your data. We recommend reading their individual Terms of Use and Privacy Policies before using their services.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. We are also a participant of Booking.com and Hostel World affiliate programs from which we earn fees from bookings made.

8. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation to:

monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms;
take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including without limitation reporting such user to law enforcement authorities;
in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable any of your Contributions or any portion thereof;
in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and
otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.

9. PRIVACY POLICY

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms. Please be advised that the Services are hosted in the United States. If you access the Services from any other region of the world with laws or other requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from applicable laws in the United States, then through your continued use of the Services, you are transferring your data to the United States and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in the United States.

10. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. Without limiting any other provision in these Legal Terms, we reserve the right to, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, deny access to and use of the Services (including blocking certain IP addresses), to any person for any reason or no reason, including without limitation for breach of any representation, warranty, or covenant contained in these Legal Terms or of any applicable law or regulation. We may terminate your use or participation in the Services or delete any content or information that you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

11. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Services. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services. Nothing in these Legal Terms will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

12. GOVERNING LAW & DISPUTES

These Legal Terms and your use of the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Montana in the United States applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within 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. To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, controversy, or claim related to these Legal Terms brought by either you or us, the parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating arbitration. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice from one party to the other party. If the parties are unable to resolve a dispute through informal negotiations, the dispute will be finally and exclusively resolved by binding arbitration.

If any provision of these Legal Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these terms will remain in effect. These Legal 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. In no event shall any dispute brought by either party related in any way to the Services be commenced more than one (1) year after the cause of action arose.

13. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time without prior notice.

14. DISCLAIMER

The Services are provided on an AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE basis. You agree that your use of the Services will be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the Services and your use thereof. We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the Services’ content or the content of any websites or mobile applications linked to the Services and will assume no liability or responsibility for:

any errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content and materials;
personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of the Services;
any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any personal information and/or financial information stored therein;
any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Services;
any bugs, viruses, Trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through the Services by any third party; and/or
any errors or omissions in any content and materials or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Services.

15. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

In no event will we be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including lost profit, lost revenue, loss of data, or other damages arising from your use of the Services, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

16. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your Contributions; (b) use of the Services; (c) breach of these Legal Terms; (d) any breach or your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; (e) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; or (f) any overt or harmful act toward any other user of the Services with whom you connected via the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.

17. USER DATA

We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. Although we perform regular routine backups of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption of such data.

18. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Services, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. You hereby agree to the use of electronic signatures, contracts, orders, and other records, and to electronic delivery of notices, policies, and records of transactions initiated or completed by us or via the services. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by any means other than electronic means.

19. CALIFORNIA USERS AND RESIDENTS

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by phone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

20. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services or in respect to the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforcement of any remaining provisions.

There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services. You agree that these Legal Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them. You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of these Legal Terms and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Legal Terms.

21. CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding the use of the Services, please contact us:

via email at compassesandquests@gmail.com
or our Contact Page

Privacy Policy

Compasses & Quests is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data.

Compasses & Quests is subject to the laws of the United States. The United States may not offer a level of privacy protection as great as that offered in other jurisdictions. Since our servers are located in the United States, your data may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States. 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. We do not collect sensitive information.

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 and for submissions to our contact form. You are not required to provide this information when using our site.

Non-Personal Data is any information not relating to an identified or identifiable natural 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 Use Your Information

We may use your personal data to:

Provide the services;
Verify your identity and the information you provide;
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 customer service
Perform certain other business activities.

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.

If You Are Located in the EU or UK:

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

Consent: we may process your information if you have given us permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. See below on opting out of marketing communications.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interest and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described to develop and display personalized and relevant advertising content, analyze how our services are used so we can improve them, support our marketing activities, diagnose problems or fraudulent activities, and understand how our users use our services.
Legal Obligations: We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vital Interests: We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests of the interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of a person.

If you are located in Canada:

We may process your information if you have given us specific permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose or in situations where your permission can be inferred. You can withdraw your consent at any time. See below to contact us.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including for example:

If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way;
For investigations and fraud detection and prevention;
For business transactions
If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle and insurance claim;
If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province;
If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records;
If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes;
If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations.

How We May Disclose Your Information

We may disclose, and you consent to our disclosing of, 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;
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 will never sell, rent, or lease your personal data to a third party.

We may disclose non-personal data for any purpose. Remember, non-personal data cannot be used to identify you or another person.

CCPA Privacy Notice

The California Code of Regulations defines a “resident” as:

Every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose;
Every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the Sate of California for a temporary or transitory purpose.

All other individuals are identified as “non-residents.”

If the definition of “resident” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.

What personal information do we collect?

In the past 12 months, we have collected identifiers and personal information, including real name, alias, IP address, and email address and internet and network activity, including interactions with our website and advertisements.

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.

We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed as long as the user interacts with the service or has an account with us.

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 contests, and to respond to your inquiries.

How do we use and share your personal information?

See above on how we use your personal information.

Will your information be shared with anyone else?

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf, following the same strict privacy protection obligations mandated by the CCPA.

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as undertaking internal research to improve our services. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal information.

Compasses & Quests has not sold any personal information to third parties.

Right to request deletion

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed

Depending on the circumstances, you have the right to know:

whether we collect and use your personal information;
the categories of personal information we collect;
the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
the categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information;
the specific pieces of personal information we collect about you.

In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights

Verification process

Upon receiving your request, 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.

Other Privacy Rights

You may object to the processing of your personal information.
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 designate an authorized agent tot make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
You may request to opt out from the future selling or sharing of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving the request, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission.

To exercise these rights, contact us via the contact form or by emailing us at compassesandquests@gmail.com.

Cookies

Compasses & Quests, as with many professional and personal websites, employs the use of cookies, which allows the site to better your 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, YouTube, and Pinterest will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. See how to do so in Chrome here. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.

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.

Web Beacons

When we send emails to customers, we may use web beacons to track who opened the emails and clicked links to measure campaign performance and improve features for customers. We also use web beacons in the emails we deliver to customers to create reports about campaign performance and determine what actions subscribers took.

Privacy Rights

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to (i) request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) request rectification or erasure, (iii) restrict processing of your personal information, and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us – see the contact section below.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. Find their contact information here.

Withdrawing consent:

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent by using the contact details below.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before withdrawal nor, when the applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Opting out of receiving electronic communications from us:

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.

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 at compassesandquests@gmail.com. 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

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