Last Updated: August 24, 2020
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the sometechie.com and Bold Compass LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Bold Compass LLC include boldcompass.com and Bold Compass. By using the Bold Compass website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Bold Compass may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you purchase Bold Compass’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. Bold Compass may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender, and interests. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Bold Compass. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Bold Compass website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Bold Compass’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
Bold Compass encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Bold Compass so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Bold Compass is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Bold Compass website.
Use of your Personal Information
Bold Compass collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Bold Compass may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Bold Compass and its affiliates. Bold Compass may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Bold Compass does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Bold Compass may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Bold Compass, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Bold Compass may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Bold Compass, in order to determine what Bold Compass services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Bold Compass to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Bold Compass uses the Mouseflow web analytics service. The service may record mouse clicks, mouse movements, scrolling activity as well as any text you type in this website, except text in password fields. Mouseflow does not collect personally identifiable information that you do not voluntarily enter in this website. Mouseflow does not track your browsing habits across other web sites or text inputted in password fields. For more information see Mouseflow’s Privacy Policy at http://mouseflow.com/privacy/.
Bold Compass uses Google Analytics. More information about how Google uses your data can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Our site uses technologies of third-party partners such as Mouseflow, NextRoll, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Ads, and Microsoft Advertising to help us recognize your device and understand how you use our site(s) so that we can improve our services to reflect your interests and serve you advertisements about the services that are likely to be of more interest to you. Specifically, these partners collect information about your activity on our site(s) to enable us to:
- measure and analyse traffic and browsing activity on our site(s);
- show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party sites;
Our partners may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies. For this reason you can use the following third party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest based advertising
- The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- The EDAA’s opt-out platform: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
- The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
Bold Compass will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Bold Compass or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Bold Compass; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Bold Compass, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Bold Compass website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Bold Compass pages, or register with Bold Compass site or services, a cookie helps Bold Compass to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Bold Compass website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Bold Compass features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Bold Compass services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Bold Compass secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
Children Under Thirteen
Bold Compass does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
California Residents
Bold Compass is not covered under the CCPA, however use covered providers, and their policies are available below:
Changes to this Statement
Bold Compass may occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Bold Compass encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Bold Compass is protecting your information.