Compass Investors, LLC (hereafter all collectively referred to as "Compass Investors" or "we") take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
Policy Effective Date: December 31, 2009
This Privacy Policy covers Compass Investors' treatment of personally identifiable information that Compass Investors collects when you are on its websites, and when you use its services. We will not sell, reveal or share your personal information with anyone or any entity for any reason whatsoever except as described below.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Compass Investors does not own or control, or to people that Compass Investors does not employ or manage.
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
Compass Investors collects personally identifiable information when you register for a Compass Investors-published newsletter, subscribe or make a purchase online or register to use any of our website's tools.
Each time a visitor comes to a Compass Investors website, our servers -- like most on the Web -- collect some basic technical information, including, for example, the visitor's domain name, user id and access date. We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, etc.).
Compass Investors uses information for four general purposes: To verify you are a subscriber, to customize the content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to inform you about specials and new products.
The types of personal information collected and recorded by Compass Investors are:
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you refer someone to our site and want an email sent directly to the recipient from our site, you will need to submit the recipient's email address.
Personal information you give us is handled with the utmost care. Compass Investors will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people only when:
We use the information you provide about someone else when sending a referral information about our company only to send an email to that person with information about our company and/or services. We do not share this information with any outside parties.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with any outside parties.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Compass Investors, as is the case with virtually all companies providing services via the Internet, may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies in a limited way to speed access to the site, to identify unique browsers that visit us, and to track usage throughout our site. We gather anonymous information about our users through cookie technology on an aggregate level only.
Compass Investors, LLC realizes how important security is to our subscribers. We have established rigorous protection of any personal or confidential information provided to Compass Investors, LLC over the Internet. Anytime you supply or access personal or confidential information you connect to us via a "secure session" using 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
SSL technology creates a private conversation that only the computer you are using and Compass Investors, LLC systems can understand. The SSL technology encodes information as it is being sent over the Internet between your computer and Compass Investors, LLC systems to ensure that the transmitted information remains confidential.
As long as you access our website using browsers provided by Netscape, Microsoft, AOL or otherwise equipped with certain security functions, all your Personal Information including your name, address, telephone number, credit card number, User Name and Password will be automatically encrypted upon transmission, therefore protecting your valuable information.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Compass Investors gives you the ability to edit your account/subscriber information and preferences at any time to correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information. Login as usual then visit the "Account Profile" link to do so.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections by requiring you to provide your user id and password.
Compass Investors may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our web site.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us toll-free at 1-866-542-6672 or send an email to us at [email protected].