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Privacy Policy
Who we are
We are Compass & Peak – a small conglomerate helping people and business achieve their goals and provide better digital experiences to people online and in store. We also run a number of proprietary projects which you can read about on the homepage.
Our website address is: http://compassandpeak.com.
Our CEO is Peter Eriksson.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Contact forms
Information submitted via contact forms will be stored and accessible to our staff via our email servers. Our email servers are managed by SiteGround and Google. All information provided in contact forms will not be shared to anyone outside of Compass & Peak other than yourself.
Cookies
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Cookies may also be used as part of advertising in order to generate income streams for the website. Please see Advertising section below for more details.
Analytics
This website uses Google Products (Analytics, Tag Manger, Search Console) and Hotjar to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages. These cookies may remain active for up to one year.
Comments
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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
In short, no one. You can read the above Cookies section to understand who we share anonymized site data with (Google Analytics and Hotjar) in order to ensure the best website performance.
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
ADVERTISING
Display Ads
We use third party advertising companies to serve content adn advertisments when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. No personally identifiable information is shared with the Website’s ad providers. At the moment we use Google AdSense and you can read their privacy information here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Re-targeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Marketing
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing. If you click a link, banner for an affiliate partnership a cookie will be placed in your browser to track any sales for the purpose of commissions.
compassandpeak.com is a participant of CJ.com affiliate program which is designed to create a means for sites to earn advertising few by advertising links to various organisations.
As owners of the site we decide which affiliate linking to use and are committed to only providing affiliate linking to companies we believe in and that are related to the content of our site.
Contact information
Please reach out to mattias@compassandpeak.com regarding privacy concerns.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Everything is anonymized. Nothing can be connected to your name, address, phone number etc.
While we love you, technically, you are just a number to us from a tracking perspective.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Notify authorities, notify service providers, shutdown services, notify affected individuals (this is only possible if someone hacks our email serves and you have submitted a form with your email address – everything else is anonymous).
What third parties we receive data from
None.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
None.