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My-Compass.com believes in permission-based marketing and is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with this Privacy Statement. We also understand the importance that you, as an Internet user, place on privacy and have designed our service with this in mind.
My-Compass.com is an Email and Direct marketer. As such, My-Compass.com provides users with the cost-free opportunity to participate in special offers, products and/or services from other companies via email. Our service is governed by, amongst other laws, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (the "CAN-SPAM Act of 2003"), and we are fully compliant with such law(s) as reasonably interpreted.
Links From Our Site To Other Sites
My-Compass.com site shall:
1. Contain links to other sites external to our sites
2. Pop up a window that lands on other site external to our sites
3. Embed an iframe on our site which opens a page of other site external to our site
When you access these external Websites, the providers of the sites will have access to certain information about you. My-Compass.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any Websites which we do not directly control.
My-Compass.com does not own the offers, content, products or services of our marketing partners and advertisers, and therefore takes no responsibility for such offers, content, products or services. This Privacy Statement applies to and governs the data collected and used by My-Compass.com. This Privacy Statement does not apply to the policies of our marketing partners or advertisers, or to their offers, content, products or services. Specifically, this Privacy Statement will address the following:
1. How we collect personal information.
2. What we do with the information collected.
3. Under what circumstances we share the information collected.
4. The security of the information collected.
5. Information collected from children.
6. Our opt-out/unsubscribe policy.
7. Changes to this Statement.
8. Your acceptance of these terms.
Our Collection of your Personal Information
My-Compass.com may collect your information from several different sources.
Registration at the My-Compass.com Website: To become a member and be added to the My-Compass.com mailing list, registrants are required to submit their first name, last name, email address, postal address, city, state, zip code, gender and age. Upon registration we may also collect certain information about your computer hardware and software, such as your IP address and access date/time. My-Compass.com does not collect your information at the My-Compass.com website without your express knowledge and consent. All information collected at the My-Compass.com website must be voluntarily submitted by the user. Once you join our mailing list, you will be sent email messages regularly, each of which shall include a clear and conspicuous way for you to unsubscribe from our list (see Opt-Out/Unsubscribe). In the event you do not submit an unsubscribe request, you will be considered a willing and voluntary member of My-Compass.com and will continue to receive offers from My-Compass.com via email until you do submit an unsubscribe request.
Registration/Co-Registration at an Affiliate Website: My-Compass.com also collects data during the registration process at several affiliate websites, by purchasing co-registration inventory following or in conjunction with an affiliate website's registration process. My-Compass.com may purchase co-registration information under its own brand/permission or may purchase the information in conjunction with several other marketers. Notwithstanding, My-Compass.com is an entity independent, though we are selective with whom we partner, My-Compass.com does not control the privacy and marketing practices of our marketing partners and takes no responsibility for such privacy and marketing practices.
Registration/Co-Registration at an Affiliate Website: My-Compass.com also collects data during the registration process at several affiliate websites, by purchasing co-registration inventory following or in conjunction with an affiliate website's registration process. My-Compass.com may purchase co-registration information under its own brand/permission or may purchase the information in conjunction with several other marketers The information we collect during the co-registration process will include, at a minimum, the registrant's email address, and will typically include such other information provided during the registration/collection process as the user's first name, last name, postal address, city, state, zip code, gender and/or birthday or age. The registrant's IP address, access date/time and source of the registration will also be collected if available. Upon receiving user information from an affiliate website, you will be sent email messages regularly, each of which shall include a clear and conspicuous way for you to unsubscribe from our list (see Opt-Out/Unsubscribe). In the event you do not submit an unsubscribe request, you will be considered a willing and voluntary member of My-Compass.com and will continue to receive offers from My-Compass.com via email until you do submit an unsubscribe request.
Database Purchase: From time to time, My-Compass.com may purchase, under its own brand/permission a database, or a portion of a database, in bulk from a marketing partner that represents that it has permission pursuant to its own privacy policy to share or sell its users' information. The information collected will include, at a minimum, the registrant's email address, and will typically include such other information provided during the registration/collection process as the user's first name, last name, postal address, city, state, zip code, gender and/or birthday or age. The registrant's IP address, access date/time and source of the registration will also be collected if available. Upon receiving your information via a database purchase, you will be sent email messages regularly, each of which shall include a clear and conspicuous way for you to unsubscribe from our list (see Opt-Out/Unsubscribe). In the event you do not submit an unsubscribe request, you will be considered a willing and voluntary member of My-Compass.com and will continue to receive offers from My-Compass.com via email until you do submit an unsubscribe request.
Contests and Surveys: From time to time, My-Compass.com may run a contest or sweepstakes on our site or via email. In order to participate, we will ask you for additional personal or demographic information that we do not have on file.
By submitting any information, you expressly and unconditionally grant My-Compass.com the right to use that information as we see fit in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Our Use of the Collected Information
This Statement governs our use of all information collected, whether under the My-Compass.com brand/permission. All information collected by My-Compass.com is used by us for email and direct marketing purposes. Based on your willingness to submit your information and be reached by our marketing partners and advertisers, My-Compass.com is able to provide you with free information and offers by email on products and services that may be of interest to you. Notwithstanding, all email messages My-Compass.com sends to you will afford several clear and conspicuous ways to opt-out from receiving future messages from us (see Opt-Out/Unsubscribe).
We may also use your information to send promotional or updated information about our company, or to reach you regarding issues concerning the use of our service (if necessary).
We may use your IP address, access date/time and source of the registration to help diagnose problems with our server, to gather broad demographic information or to respond to inquiries from ISPs, regulatory bodies or marketing partners/advertisers (see Sharing of Information).
Sharing of Information
My-Compass.com may rent, lease, share or sell user information and/or work with other businesses to bring selected opportunities to you at our sole discretion. However, My-Compass.com shall not rent, lease, share or sell your information once you have submitted an unsubscribe request and such request is processed.
We may also rent, lease, share or sell your information with/to the our marketing partners.
Our marketing partners may use user information in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may include, without limitation, email direct marketing, telephone solicitation, lookup and reference applications and/or enhancement services. Though we are selective with whom we partner, promote and/or work, My-Compass.com does not control their privacy or marketing practices and take no responsibility for such privacy or marketing practices or the accuracy of their privacy policies. We strongly urge that you read each marketer's privacy policy in order to better understand how your information is collected, used and shared by such entities.
In order to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 as reasonably interpreted, My-Compass.com may be required, from time to time, to share with our marketing partners the email addresses of those individuals that have been removed from our list pursuant to an unsubscribe request or otherwise. This 'suppression file' shall be used solely to ensure that the removed user does not receive unwanted email messages.
Additionally, certain components of our service may be provided by marketing partners or third-parties. Some of these partners may require some or all of the user information that we have on file. When necessary, My-Compass.com will provide this information to our partners or third-parties.
My-Compass.com may also disclose personal information when required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law, including, without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, or comply with a legal process served on us or one of our marketing-partners of advertisers.
Security
My-Compass.com is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. All collected information is stored by us in a technically and physically secure environment to protect against unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Access to this information is strictly limited and not accessible to the public. Notwithstanding, we take no responsibility for a breach in security.
Children's Guidelines
My-Compass.com does not promote, endorse or condone the use or dissemination of pornographic material. Nevertheless, the offers, content, products and services promoted by My-Compass.com are not intended for, targeted to or designed for users under eighteen (18) years of age. Users under eighteen (18) years of age are strictly prohibited from joining or participating in the free service provided by My-Compass.com and you should immediately unsubscribe from our mailing list unless you have received your parents' consent to submit your personal information and participate in our service.
Opt-Out/Unsubscribe
All email messages sent by My-Compass.com afford the user several clear and conspicuous way to opt-out from receiving future messages from us, including: (a) clicking on the unsubscribe link, (b) replying to the email message, or (c) sending a written request to our mailing address indicating the email address you would like removed from our mailing list (see below). In addition, you may also send an email to memberclear@My-Compass.com with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. My-Compass.com shall process all unsubscribe requests within ten (10) business days of receipt as is required by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
My-Compass.com reserves the right to revise or update this Privacy Statement at our own discretion at any time by posting a notice that we are changing our Privacy Statement on the My-Compass.com homepage next to the link for 'Privacy Policy'. If the manner in which we use personal information changes, My-Compass.com will post a prominent notice on the My-Compass.com homepage prior to implementation. Unless indicated otherwise, all changes to this Statement will take place immediately. Your failure to unsubscribe from the My-Compass.com mailing list following implementation of the policy revisions shall constitute an affirmative acknowledgement and acceptance of the modified policy. We encourage you to regularly visit My-Compass.com to review this Privacy Statement.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
Your failure to unsubscribe from the My-Compass.com mailing list shall constitute an affirmative acknowledgement and acceptance of this Privacy Statement.