Who we are
Our website address is: https://thecharmedcompass.org.
Newsletter Signups
When you join The Charmed Compass newsletter, we collect your name and email address so we can send updates, resources, and offerings. You may request removal at any time.
Session Request Forms
When you request a reading, we collect information you choose to provide, including name, email, pronouns, birth date, birth time, birth location, selected session tier, and your message. This information is used only to review your request, prepare for your session, and communicate with you.
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.
Analytics and Website Measurement
The Charmed Compass uses Google Analytics, Google Site Kit, and related Google measurement tools to help us understand how visitors use our website. These tools help us measure website traffic, page views, visitor interactions, referral sources, general performance, and the effectiveness of our content and offerings.
Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the site, links clicked, referring websites, approximate geographic location, browser type, device type, operating system, screen size, session information, and other usage data. Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies, including first-party cookies such as _ga, to distinguish visitors and understand website usage patterns.
We use this information to improve our website, understand which content is helpful, support booking and service-related goals, and make better decisions about future offerings from The Charmed Compass.
We do not intentionally send sensitive personal information to Google Analytics, including private spiritual session details, payment information, health information, personal messages submitted through forms, or other confidential information.
Google may process analytics information according to its own privacy practices and terms. You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services through Google’s privacy and terms resources.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. You may also use available Google Analytics opt-out tools where supported.
Cookies
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.
Our website may use analytics cookies, including Google Analytics cookies such as _ga, to understand how visitors interact with the site. These cookies help us measure traffic, page usage, visitor interactions, and website performance. Visitors can control or block cookies through their browser settings.
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.
How Information Is Stored
Form submissions may be sent to The Charmed Compass through email and/or website form tools. Information is not sold or shared for advertising purposes.
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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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.