BurningCompass.Com/Store Privacy Policy
We at www.burningcompass.com/store (“BurningCompass Store”) a subsidiary of OHOMAPS LLP are committed to safeguarding your online privacy. Please do read the following policy to understand how your private information will be treated while you make full use of our e-shopping or other offerings. This policy may change from time to time therefore, you are requested to visit this page periodically. This BurningCompass Store Privacy Policy was last updated on February 19, 2022. OHOMAPS LLP or its subsidiary BurningCompass Store may collect the information explained herein under.
1. What identifiable information is collected from me?
BurningCompass Store may collect information in one or more ways from different parts of our network of Websites. BurningCompass Store may ask you for personal information at times, when you contact, create an account and/or report a problem with one of our sites or services. BurningCompass Store occasionally may also ask Users to complete surveys that are used for internal research.
2. What are cookies and how does the BurningCompass Store use them?
As a combined part of offering and providing customized and personalized services, BurningCompass Store may use cookies to store and track your information. A cookie is a miniscule amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server that may be stored on your computer’s hard drive. If you choose to browse map images, routes and trip plans we will require that you accept cookies.
Generally, BurningCompass Store uses cookies to:
Cache your personalized settings for items such as route language and default country location.
Determine whether you are using a public computer so that any BurningCompass Store settings changed while using a public computer do not affect the next user’s ability to use BurningCompass Store.
Roughly Estimate our audience or browsers. Each fresh browser trying to access BurningCompass Store may be given a cookie. That may be used to determine the extent of repeat usage by the user.
Assist us to track the number of visits to and business activities at the BurningCompass Store and to track and process the items in your shopping basket.
Track your progress and number of entries or queries in some of our promotions, and contests.
Measure certain specific traffic patterns to the site, track the areas of BurningCompass Store visited, track the Web site or geographical location through which you came to BurningCompass Store and your visiting patterns on average. BurningCompass Store uses this research to understand its users’ visit habits and browsing preferences of if they are similar or different from one another so that BurningCompass Store can make each visit by you on BurningCompass Store better experience then previous one. We may use this information to better the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will be likely to see on our sites.
BurningCompass Store also collects geophysical IP addresses for system and server administration and to report visiting information to our advertisers.
Other advertising networks that may serve advertising onto the BurningCompass Store network may also use their own cookies.
BurningCompass Store and its advertisers may also use small pieces of code called ‘’web beacons’’ or electronic images that are sometime called “single-pixel GIF” to collect anonymous and average advertising patterns, such as counting hits, browser type, time spent viewing a page, type of page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. These “web beacons” may be used to deliver cookies that conform to our anonymous cookie policy. BurningCompass Store does not allow access or sell other advertisers or their advertising networks, information collected from you.
3. Who is collecting information?
When you are visiting a BurningCompass Store site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information for use by BurningCompass Store alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. Some BurningCompass Store services may be offered in conjunction with a third partner. In order to provide this service to you, it may be necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company. In such cases you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. Whereas if you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of such data by not using that particular service at all.
Sometimes promotions that run on BurningCompass Store may be sponsored by companies other than BurningCompass Store or may be co-sponsored by BurningCompass Store and another company. Some or all data collected during such a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. In the event of data being shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. So you can decide whether to participate in the promotion, if you don’t want your data to be shared.
Please be advised that BurningCompass Store advertisers or Websites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. Such information practices of those Websites linked to BurningCompass Store are expressly not covered by this privacy statement.
4. With whom else BurningCompass Store will share my information?
As a thumb rule, BurningCompass Store will not wilfully disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under extraneous circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Described herein under are some of the ways that your information may be shared or disclosed.
Sponsors & Business Partners:
BurningCompass Store may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically and expressly described to you at the time of data collection or prior to transferring the data. Some or all data collected during a BurningCompass Store promotion may be shared with a sponsor, only after proper intimation.
During many promotions offers you may be requested for additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give BurningCompass Store permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In the majority of instances, only your email address will be shared.
Third Party Data & Data Comparisons:
Under confidentiality agreements, BurningCompass Store may match user information with third party data. Also, BurningCompass Store discloses patterned user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and or other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Miscellaneous:
BurningCompass Store may also disclose user information in such cases where we have reason to believe that disclosure of this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) OHOMAPS LLP’s rights or property, other BurningCompass Store users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. BurningCompass Store may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law or law-enforcing agency requires it.
5. Do I have choices or controls regarding collection, use, and distribution of my identifiable information?
Upon your express interest in receiving offers or information from BurningCompass Store and our partners under confidentiality, may occasionally send you e-mail or postal mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you and only if you indicated that you welcome these offers. Any time you can easily unsubscribe from OHOMAPS LLP’s mailing list and no longer receive such offers and mailings.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use some of BurningCompass Store services that require the use of cookies in order to participate.
BurningCompass Store as a policy does not sell or rent your information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. You can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests, if you do not wish to allow such data sharing.
6. How much protected my personal financial information is?
To keep your personal financial information private is vital and important to us. As with all personal information, BurningCompass Store will never rent or sell your personal financial information. Your use of certain services or features, known to us, may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. Yet as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission.
Please note that there may be places on the BurningCompass Store network of Websites where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use the best industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption technology. This sophisticated encryption process ensures that prying eyes are unable to decode your personal data when it travels from your computer to ours.
7. What security precautions are there to place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information?
It may not be a norm but the fact remains that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure always. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, BurningCompass Store cannot ensure or warrant the total security of any information you transmit to us or for our online products purchase or services, and you do so at your own risk. But once we receive your transmission, we strive and make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
8. What else should I know about my privacy?
Do keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example on message boards, through email, on mailing lists or in chat areas – that information can be seen and collected and used by others. In nutshell, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the other public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Finally, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any registration information. Please be careful and responsible on your own whenever you’re online.
9. Is there any children’s privacy?
Yes, the safety of children is very important to us. Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending personal information to OHOMAPS LLP, or to anyone online for that matter. BurningCompass Store does not share personal information about users under the age of 13 with third parties under any circumstances unless there is a special situation and such information is requested by law enforcing agency and we do not sell or rent personal information about any of our users, regardless of their age. In addition, BurningCompass Store will not send any direct email offers to users who indicate they are under the age of 13 without first obtaining their parents’ permission.
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