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Privacy and Security Statement
The COMPASS Family Center (COMPASS) respects your privacy. Web servers are generally capable of collecting, storing, and analyzing a variety of information about those who visit the site. Our goal is to keep all information collected at this website confidential and secure and to use it only for purposes for which it was intended or to improve the quality of the web service we provide. To inform you of our policies, we provide the following detailed information about our data collection processes.
In some cases, COMPASS contracts with commercial services for specific web services, generally related to financial transactions, and links to their sites for those transactions. If you are redirected to another site, something other than "compassfamilycenter.org" in the URL, privacy and security are governed by the policies of those services and are documented by those sites. We do attempt to ensure that those policies conform in general to USD's policies, as outlined below.
What information does COMPASS collect on its Web site?
We collect personal information (such as name, address, phone, e-mail address) only if you provide it to us voluntarily through e-mail, registration forms, information request forms or surveys, or otherwise. Personal information is kept confidential and will not be disclosed to third parties except as may be required by law.
Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's computer hard drive for recordkeeping purposes. COMPASS web pages will not issue "cookies" to anyone who visits those web pages, except for the purpose of remembering log-in information or user preferences. Cookies will never store private information but will only reference such information elsewhere. In those cases, cookies are used only to record security keys with limited lifetimes for your convenience in accessing other secured pages.
Our web server software automatically logs the following information each time someone visits our website: date, time, Client IP, Server IP, web browser, URLs of page requested and referring page, among others. We use the information gathered to help us improve our website.
Do you sell or give my information to companies outside of COMPASS?
We do not sell or disclose personally identifiable information obtained online about our visitors, to anyone outside of COMPASS unless you specifically authorize it, to complete a transaction that you initiated, it is required by law, or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of customers, employees or property.
COMPASS may share non-personally identifiable information with non-COMPASS companies in order to assess the results of a promotion, event or third party relationship, to provide information to current or prospective customers, to complete a search or to otherwise enhance your online experience. For example, we may provide statistical information that is not identified with you:
  • The number of people who visit the website, which pages were visited and for how long, the referral URL, the user's IP address, and the User Agent.
  • Non-personally identifiable information may also be disclosed to non-COMPASS companies if it is required by law, or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of customers, employees or property.
This does not contain any information that would personally identify you. In addition, COMPASS may support features and content that appear on other companies' web sites that you may visit. These companies may collect information about you, but COMPASS does not have control over the collection practices of these companies.
What does USD do to safeguard personal information on this site?
We have instituted safeguards to check that our internal procedures meet our high policy standards. Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide us.
Internet communication security in general
The privacy of communication over the Internet cannot be guaranteed because the Internet is not a secure medium. COMPASS does not assume any responsibility for any harm, loss or damage you may experience or incur by the sending of personal or confidential information over the Internet by or to COMPASS.
What should I do if I have questions?
If you have questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at 1-619-260-7667.
Consent
By using this site, you signify your consent to COMPASS' on-line privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update, change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy from time to time.
This Privacy Policy has been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving and that underlying standard business models are still not well established. Accordingly, this Privacy & Security Statement is subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page.
Reporting Copyright Infringements
In accordance with Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), USD has designated an agent to receive notification of a claim of copyright infringement for the University of San Diego network domain, SanDiego.edu. Please contact USD's DMCA Designated Agent (WebCoordinator@SanDiego.edu) to report a claim of copyright infringement.
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