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Document history
Every version of our legal documents carries an effective date. This page records what changed in each one, so you can see how the terms you agreed to have moved over time without having to compare two pages line by line.
Changes marked material are ones that reduce what we offer or increase what you have to do. For those we give at least 30 days' notice before they take effect, and if you are on a paid plan you can cancel before that date and we refund the unused part of what you have paid. Everything else — clarifications, corrections, new features — applies from its effective date.
About the versions dated July 24 and July 28, 2026. Those took effect on the day they were published rather than 30 days later. Compass had no paid subscribers on those dates. The 30-day commitment above applies from the first material change after paid subscriptions open.
If you want the full text of an earlier version, email support@enginerds.com and we will send it to you.
Privacy Policy
- August 16, 2026
. Capabilities audit: the promises on this page now all have working mechanisms, and two are restated to match them. The watchlist digest can now genuinely be turned off from the email itself — every digest carries a turn-off link that works without signing in, landing on a one-button confirmation page — and the wording now says "from the turn-off link in any digest email" rather than counting clicks. Scheduled report emails and the announcement email carry the same kind of stop link. The retention table now gives generated report snapshots their own row — kept for the calendar month they were generated in, then deleted automatically — instead of grouping them with data kept for the life of the account; the life-of-account row now also names saved maps. Global Privacy Control is now honoured without exception: the signal keeps analytics off even if you try to switch it on in the cookie banner, which previously worked for a single visit before the signal re-applied. - August 15, 2026
. Corrections for general availability, and fuller webhook disclosure. The public pages viewable from restricted regions are now described as "The Signal Record and other published reports" — The Signal Record replaced the monthly Insights reports as the publication we produce, and the older reports remain published. The waitlist bullet is reworded to cover both past and future requests to be told when a plan becomes available: the pre-launch sign-up form is being retired, but addresses collected through it are still held until the announcement is sent, so the disclosure remains. The service-provider section no longer states that every provider acts only on our instructions as a processor: certain providers — in particular the payment provider — also act as independent controllers for their own regulated activities, such as payment processing, fraud prevention, and legal compliance, and the policy now says so. Webhook destinations you configure are now listed among the categories of recipient, with their own retention row: the configuration is kept until you delete the webhook or your account is closed; only the most recent delivery status is kept, overwritten on each delivery; payload contents are not logged; the signing secret is stored as entered and used only to sign deliveries; and deleting a watchlist or alert does not delete a webhook, which you delete yourself. - July 31, 2026
. Removed the newsletter. We no longer offer one, so the sign-up form and everything behind it have been taken off the site, and the policy no longer describes collecting an email for a newsletter or the topic categories that form asked you to pick. The recurring email we do send when you ask for it — a report on a schedule you choose — is now described in its own right, including what we keep and for how long. Watchlist digests are unchanged. Restricted regions: the policy now states that account creation and all account-based Compass services — free accounts included, not only paid plans — are not offered to people in the European Union or European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Türkiye, or mainland China, while the public pages remain viewable; and it explains how the limited information from a declined registration attempt is used and how to have it deleted. The California section now says the CCPA and CPRA rights apply to the extent those laws apply to us — the practice is unchanged: we honour verified access, copy, correction, and deletion requests from everyone either way. - July 28, 2026
. Corrected our position on the EU/EEA and the UK. We do not offer paid Compass plans there, do not market the Service there, and do not carry out behavioural advertising or profiling of visitors there — so we have not appointed a representative under Article 27 of the GDPR or UK GDPR, and the page now says that plainly instead of saying we were about to. If we ever open paid access in either region we will appoint and name representatives before we do. Rewrote the rights section: the access, copy, correction, deletion, restriction, and objection rights that were previously listed for EU, EEA, and UK residents are now offered to everyone, wherever you live, as a matter of our own practice. Reworded the purposes table and the international-transfer section so they describe our practice instead of asserting which law governs us; the contractual transfer safeguards themselves are unchanged. Complaints: you may still raise a matter with your national data-protection authority where one applies to you. - July 25, 2026
. Corrections. Purchase-consent records are now stated to be kept for at least three years, and at least one year after the agreement ends, whichever is longer, which is the period required by California's automatic-renewal law. Replaced the note that an EU and UK representative "is being designated" with our actual position: we have not opened paid subscriptions in those regions, and will designate and name representatives before we do. Added how to complain to a supervisory authority. Corrected the cookie table: the Ahrefs analytics tag sets no cookie and stores nothing on your device. - July 24, 2026 — material change
. Complete rewrite. Replaced the "by using the site you consent" framing with a notice-based one and moved consent to the point of collection. Added a legal-basis table, a table of the categories of recipient we disclose personal data to, a retention schedule, an international-transfer section, a cookie table, and a section on how AI prompts and searches are processed — including that we do not use them to train models. Removed descriptions of practices we do not have (SMS, push notifications, affiliate sharing, business partners, public user areas). Added Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control handling. - June 27, 2026
. Earlier version. Available on request. - March 17, 2025
. First published version. Available on request.
Terms of Service
- August 16, 2026 — material change
. External legal review. Accounts now expressly accept these Terms: the first time a signed-in account is used we ask for acceptance before continuing, record the version and time, and ask again after a material change — previously acceptance was inferred from use alone. The description of our aggregation now states everything the pipeline reads: publishers' feeds and sitemaps, the publicly accessible article pages they point to, and public web archives — the previous sentence said "publicly available feeds" only, which understated it. The refund exceptions in Order of Precedence are generalized: ANY refund expressly promised in these Terms survives the Subscription Terms' non-refundable default — the previous list of three named exceptions omitted the region-withdrawal refund. Added a one-year period for bringing a claim, which does not shorten any period mandatory law gives you. Indemnification is now scoped to business and professional use (team seats and the API included) and no longer applies to individual consumers. Data After Termination now states that the right to a copy or deletion of your personal information applies at any time under the Privacy Policy and is separate from the 30-day free-export courtesy. Same-day follow-up from the capabilities audit: Data After Termination now also names what is retained indefinitely after a downgrade — watchlists, notes, custom topic sets, and saved maps — and states generated reports' real lifetime: re-openable for the calendar month they were generated in, on any plan. The previous sentence said reports were retained without qualification, which overstated it. - August 15, 2026
. Account closure now includes deletion. Closing your account previously ended access, with personal-data deletion only if you separately asked; the Privacy Policy's retention table had promised deletion or anonymization on closure itself. The two documents now agree, in the direction of the stronger promise: closure ends access and we then delete or anonymize the personal data associated with the account, except what the retention schedule states we keep — billing and tax records, purchase-consent evidence, security records, and time-limited backups. Also corrected the name of the publication cited among the public pages: The Signal Record, which replaced the monthly Insights reports. - August 9, 2026
. Added a corrections route: if a measurement, name, link, or figure in Compass looks wrong, email support with what you saw and where, we review it, and where we find an error we correct it — no account is needed to report one. Added a recomputation-and-revision section: measurement methods are refined over time, figures for periods already measured may be revised, a subject may be separated into two or combined with another, and a report generated later may show different figures for the same period — reports and API responses carry the date of the measurement run behind them, and a cited figure should cite that date. Added a section on the subjects Compass names: naming a company, product, technology, or person identifies what the measured coverage is about and implies no affiliation or endorsement, and a measurement is a statement about the coverage, not about the subject's conduct, quality, finances, safety, compliance, or character. Extended the AI-content disclaimer to the measurements themselves: Compass measurements and report narratives are produced by automated processing, including AI models, and are not individually reviewed before display. Added a copyright-complaint procedure: what a notice must contain, how counter-notices work, and that accounts of repeat infringers are terminated. Added a no-third-party-beneficiaries clause: work you build on Compass outputs for your own clients or audience is provided by you, on your responsibility. - July 31, 2026 — material change
. Widened the territory restriction from paid-only to all account-based services. "Where the Services Are Offered" now distinguishes public informational pages — articles, the published monthly Insights reports, and non-personalized samples, viewable everywhere — from account creation and every authenticated Compass feature, including the free tier, which are not offered in the European Union and European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Türkiye, or mainland China. Added a lawful-availability clause: the Services are not available where a transaction would be prohibited by United States sanctions, export controls, applicable local law, or the rules of our payment and service providers. Removed a leftover reference to the statutory withdrawal right for consumers in the EU, EEA, and UK, which no longer exists in the Subscription Terms because we do not sell there. Narrowed the indemnity for Compass outputs to material alteration, unlawful use, unauthorized redistribution, or misleading presentation — ordinary permitted publication is no longer within it. Clarified that the output license does not depend on payment for users who owe none. - July 28, 2026 — material change
. Added a section, "Where the Services Are Offered". Paid plans and one-off report purchases are now offered worldwide EXCEPT in the European Union and European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Türkiye, and mainland China; we do not accept orders from those regions. Reading is unaffected everywhere — the free tier and the published monthly Insights reports stay open to anyone. If an order from a region we do not sell to completes anyway, we reverse it: the subscription ends immediately and the entire amount is refunded, with nothing deducted for access already had. Replaced the statement that we market the paid Services in the UK and the European Economic Area. The consumer-protection savings clauses in Governing Law, Disclaimer of Warranties, and Limitation of Liability previously named the EU, EEA, and UK; they now protect your rights under the law of wherever you actually live, which covers more people, not fewer. - July 25, 2026
. Corrections. The California privacy section previously stated that residents are entitled to CCPA and CPRA rights; it now says those laws apply to the extent they apply to us, and that we voluntarily honour verified access, correction, and deletion requests regardless of whether we meet every statutory threshold. Narrowed the intellectual-property clause: we claim our original materials and the selection and arrangement of the site, to the extent protected by law, rather than "all content", and state that third-party rights, including article titles and trademarks, remain with their owners. - July 24, 2026 — material change
. Rewrote the description of the service so it covers the free tier, paid plans, one-off reports, and the API rather than only news aggregation. Narrowed the indemnity to matters within your control and added our duty to notify you of a claim. Reframed privacy as notice rather than consent. Added a 30-day advance notice for material changes and the right to cancel before one applies. Added an "as is" warranty disclaimer and a liability cap — the greater of fees paid in the last 12 months or US$100 — both with express carve-outs for rights consumers cannot waive. Added account terms, terms for content you submit, data export after termination, and standard contract clauses (severability, waiver, assignment, force majeure, entire agreement, venue, notices, survival). Added a savings clause preserving EU, EEA, and UK consumers' local-law rights and local courts. Split eligibility: 13+ to browse, 18+ to buy. - June 27, 2026
. Earlier version. Available on request. - April 21, 2025
. First published version. Available on request.
Subscription, Billing & Refund Terms
- August 16, 2026
. Price-change notice lengthened, and plan changes described as they actually work. A subscription price change was previously announced 7 to 30 days ahead; we now email at least 30 days before the new price takes effect — matching the Terms of Service's 30-day notice for material changes — and, when that first email goes out more than 30 days ahead, email again within the 30 days before the change so the notice is always fresh (California's automatic-renewal law requires a notice inside that final window). The email's contents and your right to cancel before the new price applies are unchanged. Plan Changes rewritten: you can now move between Pro and Plus directly from Account → Billing — upgrades immediate and prorated, downgrades at the next renewal with an undo until then, each change confirmed by email — where the page previously described cancelling and resubscribing as the only route. The Signal Feed (API) plan sits off that ladder and keeps the cancel-or-email route. - August 15, 2026 — material change
. Corrected the dispute-resolution sentence to match the Terms of Service it cites. It previously said that wherever you live, you keep every right to bring a claim before the courts of your own country; the Terms of Service preserve local-court proceedings for consumers outside the United States and set Los Angeles County, California as the venue otherwise, and this page now says the same. Retitled "Free Tier & Waitlist" to "Free Tier & Early Access" — with paid plans generally available, the terms no longer name the pre-launch waitlist; the early-access clause is unchanged in substance and still covers anyone who joined during that period. The public pages viewable everywhere now cite The Signal Record, which replaced the monthly Insights reports. - August 9, 2026
. Added a refund bullet for measurement disputes: report a suspected error in a measurement to support and we review it; where a report you generated was affected by an error we confirm, we regenerate it at no charge once the correction is in place; disagreement with what a measurement shows is not, by itself, a billing error; and any mandatory rights under the law that applies to your purchase are unaffected. - July 31, 2026 — material change
. "Where These Terms Apply" now states that account-based Compass services generally — free and paid — are not offered in the restricted regions, matching the Terms of Service; the sentence that said free access to the Website is available everywhere has been replaced with one about the public pages, which are. Reworded the cancellation summary: instead of comparing cancelling to subscribing, it now states directly that cancellation is a single control in your account and requires no phone call, chat, survey, or retention sequence. The control itself is unchanged. - July 28, 2026 — material change
. Paid plans are no longer offered in the EU/EEA, the UK, Türkiye, or mainland China, and this page now says where these terms apply. Three things that existed only because we sold in the EU and UK have been REMOVED: the promise that consumers there would see a VAT-inclusive total before paying, the 14-day withdrawal section under the EU Consumer Rights Directive and the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations, and the model withdrawal form. In their place: a clause confirming that any cooling-off, withdrawal, return, or statutory-guarantee right given to you by the law of the country where you live applies in full and is honoured on a plain email. Prices are stated in US dollars. Refunds now also cover an order we should not have accepted: refunded in full, automatically, with nothing deducted. The one-off report is refundable in full at any time before you generate it, for everyone rather than for EU and UK consumers only. - July 24, 2026 — material change
. Added a section describing exactly what we show you before charging you, and the copy of the terms we email afterwards. Rewrote cancellation to describe the in-account cancellation that now exists: one button and one confirmation. Replaced "reasonable advance notice" of a price change with the specific window we now keep to: at least 7 and no more than 30 days. Added the 14-day withdrawal right for consumers in the EU, EEA, and UK — including that for a one-off report the right runs, with a full refund, until the report is generated — plus the model withdrawal form and our dispute-resolution position. Clarified that VAT is calculated at checkout and shown inclusive to EU, EEA, and UK consumers, that report allowances reset by calendar month, and how plan changes actually work. - June 27, 2026
. First published version.
API Terms & Data License
- June 27, 2026
. First published version. Revised on 24 July 2026 without a new effective date: clarified the attributed client-facing uses the licence permits; reworded the rate-limit and authentication statements to match what the API actually does; replaced an undefined "transient" caching allowance with a defined 24-hour ceiling and a duty to delete cached outputs on termination; stated the derived-data limits; added the 90-day breaking-change notice; and made changes to these API Terms follow the Terms of Service's 30-day-notice-and-refund framework instead of "continued use constitutes acceptance". This revision took effect immediately. Revised again on 31 July 2026, also without a new effective date: added a cross-reference to where paid plans are, and are not, offered — the region list is in the Subscription Terms — and clarified that the license is revocable as provided under Suspension & Termination, rather than at will. Revised again on 9 August 2026, also without a new effective date: the recomputation-and-revision terms added to the Terms of Service — figures for periods already measured may be revised as measurement methods are refined — are now expressly listed among the terms that apply to API Outputs. Revised again on 15 August 2026, also without a new effective date: the rate-limit statement previously said remaining allowance is returned on each authenticated response; the header is in fact returned only on successful authenticated responses — error responses and the keyless discovery endpoint carry neither — and the terms now match the wire behaviour and the API documentation.
Accessibility Statement
- July 31, 2026
. Corrections. The third-party sign-in and payment pages are now described by role — our identity provider and our payment processor — rather than by company name. The complaint route under Enforcement now points to the accessibility enforcement body of the country where you live, rather than addressing readers in the EU and EEA specifically. The date the statement was last reviewed is now shown alongside the date it was prepared. - July 25, 2026
. Correction. The statement said that building to WCAG 2.2 AA also covers the technical baseline referenced by the European Accessibility Act. It does not: EN 301 549 includes requirements beyond web page criteria, such as documentation and support. WCAG 2.2 AA is now described as our primary benchmark for the web experience, with the additional requirements assessed separately. - July 24, 2026
. First published version. States partial conformance with WCAG 2.2 AA, lists the areas known not to conform, and gives the accommodation contact and response commitment.
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