Galesburg Railroad Days Committee is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of the GalesburgRailroadDays.org site (the “Site”). By accessing the Site, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you to provide a service or carry out a transaction that you have requested such as signing up for an event, requesting information, and/or purchasing official merchandise from our online store. The personal information we collect may include your name, e-mail, phone, work or home address, and information to complete your request.  Our Site also includes a link to PayPal, our online payment service provider.  Such third party Web service providers may collect personal data about our visitors.

The Site may collect certain information about your visit, such as the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the date and time you access the Site; the pages that you access while at the Site and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site. This information is used to help improve the site, analyze trends and administer the site.  

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Use of your Personal Information

The personal information collected on this Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized.

In support of these uses, Galesburg Railroad Days Committee may use personal information to provide you with more effective customer service, to improve the Site and any related Galesburg Railroad Days Committee products or services, and to make the Site easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the Site to your particular preference or interests. In order to offer you a more consistent experience in your interactions with Galesburg Railroad Days Committee, information collected by GalesburgRailroadDays.org may be combined with information collected by other Galesburg Railroad Days Committee services.

We may use your personal information to provide you with important information about the product or service that you are using and/or requesting. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about other Galesburg Railroad Days products and services.

We merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of GalesburgRailroadDays.org, with your approval, we will combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content. If you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and won't merge your personal information with site-visitation data.

When you sign up for a newsletter or agree to receive promotional e-mail, GalesburgRailroadDays.org may use customized links or similar technologies to track e-mail links that you click. We may associate that information with your personal information in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or purchase information. Each e-mail communication includes an unsubscribe link allowing you to stop delivery of that type of communication.

Some services on GalesburgRailroadDays.org offer individuals the ability to publicly display certain personal information. Participation in such services is always optional.

Galesburg Railroad Days Committee occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as Web site hosting, packaging, mailing and delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and services, and sending information about our products, special offers, and other services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Galesburg Railroad Days Committee may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Galesburg Railroad Days Committee or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Galesburg Railroad Days Committee; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Galesburg Railroad Days Committee employees or agents, users of Galesburg Railroad Days Committee products or services, or members of the public.

Personal information collected on the Site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Galesburg Railroad Days Committee or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Galesburg Railroad Days Committee abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.  

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Control of your Personal Information

Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of Galesburg Railroad Days Committee and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission. As described below in the next section, you can access your personal information and make choices about how you wish to be contacted.  

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Access to your Personal Information

You can ask us, by sending an email whether we are keeping personal data about you.  Upon request, which you can indicate by sending an email, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, usually within one week. We may, however, require proof of your identity prior to releasing such information. We will provide the information without any charge.  

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data: erased; rectified; amended; or, completed.

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal.  We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

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Security of your Personal Information

Galesburg Railroad Days Committee is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.  

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Protection of Children's Personal Information

GalesburgRailroadDays.org is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.  

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Enforcement of this Privacy Statement

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact Galesburg Railroad Days Committee.  

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Changes to this Statement

We may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.  

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Contact Information

Galesburg Railroad Days Committee welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you believe that we have not adhered to this privacy statement, please contact us electronically or via postal mail at the address provided below, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

GalesburgRailroadDays.org privacy
Galesburg Railroad Days
2163 East Main Street
Galesburg, Illinois 61401
(309) 343-2683
webmaster@galesburgrailroaddays.org

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