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OUR PRIVACY POLICY

The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad respects the privacy of our customers. The purpose of this privacy statement is to provide you with information concerning our services, the types of information we are provided or obtain ourselves through visits to or use of our Website, how we use that information. Our goal in handling information provided to us in connection with the processing of transactions on our Website is to comply with applicable data privacy laws and to offer users of our Website notice, choice, consent, security, data integrity, access and enforcement with regard to personal information provided to us by individuals in conjunction with those transactions.


How we use the information we collect.


Depending on the nature of the services provided by The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad we may receive personal information directly from you. The personal information may include but is not limited to your name, mailing address, phone number, and other information required to provide you with the product requested.

The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad also employs other companies to provide services to it in connection with your transaction. We may use companies to process credit card payments, deliver packages, send mail, analyze data, provide marketing aid and assistance, provide customer service, and otherwise provide services to us to enable us to serve you and enhance our services. These organizations may have access to personal information as required to permit them to perform their obligations to us. We require these organizations to undertake to protect personal information and to only use it in accordance with applicable laws and for the purposes for which they are specifically engaged.

Some of the ways in which we will use the personal information provided us include:

to take, process or deliver your order, process or obtain payment or notify you of the status of your order;
to provide it to industry and credit related organizations for security, credit or fraud prevention purposes;
to provide you with announcements and other product offerings;
to send you, with your consent, newsletters or promotional emails or undertake other promotional activities.

We may also provide links from our Website to third party websites who may provide services to you directly or on our behalf. THE PRIVACY POLICIES OF THESE THIRD PARTY SITES MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM OUR PRIVACY POLICIES AND WILL GOVERN ANY TRANSACTIONS UNDERTAKEN ON THAT SITE. We urge you to review the privacy policy of any site to which you are linked.

By submitting your order to us you consent to the use of your personal information as set forth above.


Will The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad Give Me Notice of Requests for My Information Made By Law Enforcement or Governmental Agencies?


No. The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad may be required to respond to subpoenas, court orders or be asked to respond to other legitimate requests for your personal information from appropriate law enforcement or governmental authorities. In such situations, we will release personally identifiable information to third parties and organizations when we believe it is appropriate for us to do so in order to comply with the law or to protect against fraud. We will also release such information:
to cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental investigations (without necessarily requiring the law enforcement or government agency requesting the information to formally serve us with a subpoena),
to comply with all valid court orders or subpoenas,
to protect our legal rights and those of our users; and/or
when we believe it is needed for fraud protection and/or credit risk reduction.
The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad also reserves the right to report to such entities any activities that we believe to be unlawful. Any report made to under this paragraph will be made without prior notice to you.

In the event The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad merges with another entity, is acquired by another entity, or enters into a business combination with another entity, The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad may be required to disclose and some or all of your personally identifiable information to that entity to continue serving you.


How do we protect customer information?


Customers who buy through the The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad website are shopping on a secure server which encrypts all of a customer's personal information. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, for a third party to access or use your personal information in an unauthorized manner.

The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad has developed its service with security as a top priority. We use firewalls to prevent access to information in our system and Secure Socket Layers ("SSL") to encrypt your personal information and protect it from disclosure, destruction, modification or use.


What About Cookies?

"Cookies" are a data analysis technique that uses information stored on your browser. The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad cookies are used to identify a customer, not to identify specific customer traits. If you do not want cookies in your browser, you may set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website attempts to place a cookie in your browser.


Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may also collect other information which does not in and of itself identify a specific individual. This information includes IP addresses, search terms, domain names and browser types. We use this information to track usage and other patterns on our web site.


Information Sharing


The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad does not sell, trade or rent personal information to anyone. We will not use or share your personally identifiable information with others except those individuals or entities which we have engaged to provide services to you, for those purposes set forth above or with your consent.

Changes to this privacy policy


The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad may amend this policy from time-to-time. We suggest you visit this web site periodically to determine whether or not any such changes have been made.


CCNow Contact Information
If you have questions or comments or would like to contact us concerning our privacy statement, please contact us online at the following address:

info@bsvrr.com







IOWA RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY / BOONE & SCENIC VALLEY RAILROAD
225 10TH STREET, PO BOX 603
BOONE, IOWA  50036
1-800-626-0319

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