Railway Interchange is committed to maintaining confidence and trust. To that end, this Privacy Policy explains how Railway Interchange collects, uses and shares your personal information online through our websites, forms and services that link to this Policy, as well as offline in association with efforts to organize, host and facilitate conferences, seminars and meetings. For purposes of this Policy, ”personal information” is information that, alone or in combination with other information, can reasonably be used to identify you.
Collection of personal information
Information collected from you
Railway Interchange may collect the following personal information from you:
- Personal details (e.g., first name, last name);
- Contact details (e.g., personal email address, mailing address, telephone number, mobile telephone, emergency contact information);
- Employment and professional details (e.g., job title, company name, company mailing address, office phone number, fax number, company website address, affiliations, subsidiaries, company email address);
- Payment information (e.g., credit card numbers);
- Travel details when you attend Railway Interchange 2023 (e.g., passport information, visa information, hotel reservations);
- Health information (e.g., information concerning allergies, dietary restrictions and disabilities) so we may accommodate these needs at Railway Interchange 2023; and
- Communications (e.g., when you contact us with questions or submit feedback).
Information collected from other sources
Railway Interchange may also receive information about you from other sources, including:
- Your devices. Railway Interchange and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical information from your computer or mobile device over time and across different websites when you use the services, such as your Internet Protocol address, your general geographic location, your browser type, your operating system, the pages you view on the Services, the pages you view immediately before and after you access the services, and the search terms you enter on the services. This information allows Railway Interchange to recognize you and personalize your experience if you return to the services, to improve the services, and to tailor advertising and marketing. Railway Interchange and our service providers may collect this information using “cookies,” which are small text files that the services save on your computer using your web browser and access when you return.
- Third parties. We may obtain information about you or your use of the services from third parties and sources, such as our vendors (like web hosting providers, analytics providers, advertisers), event partners and social media companies. The information Railway Interchange obtains from third party services depends on your account/privacy settings with those third parties and the third parties’ privacy policies. You are responsible for reviewing the privacy policies of these third parties and adjusting your settings to meet your preferences. When you access the services through third-party platforms, you are authorizing Railway Interchange to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please keep in mind that any information provided to Railway Interchange by a third party may also be subject to that third party’s privacy policy.
How we use the information we collect
Railway Interchange may use the information we collect:
- To respond to your inquiries;
- To verify your identity when you access or use our services;
- To facilitate your attendance/participation at our conferences and events
- To operate, troubleshoot, and improve Railway Interchange’s website and online services;
- To send you newsletters, updates, marketing communications, and other information or materials that may interest you;
- To understand how individuals use Railway Interchange’s online services and respond to our communications, including by generating and analyzing statistics;
- To help our advertisers and sponsors better understand our users; and
- To detect, prevent, and respond to violations of Railway Interchange policies, violations of law, or other misuse of our services.
How Railway Interchange may share the information we collect
Railway Interchange may share the information we collect, including your personal information, with third parties under the following circumstances:
- Service providers and business partners. Railway Interchange may share your personal information with our service providers and business partners that perform data storage, communications and other business operations for Railway Interchange. For example, we may partner with other companies to process secure payments, fulfill orders, optimize our services, send newsletters and marketing emails, support email and messaging services and analyze information.
- Event partners. Railway Interchange may share personal information, such as attendance lists that include your name, address, company name and email address to exhibitors.
- Protection of rights and other legal purposes. Railway Interchange may share the information collected, including personal information, with any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other third party where Railway Interchange believes this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.
In addition, we may share or disclose information that has been aggregated, de-identified, or otherwise does not identify you.
Third party websites
Railway Interchange’s website may contain links to websites not owned or controlled by Railway Interchange. Railway Interchange does not have any control over these third-party websites. We encourage you to be aware of these other third-party websites and their privacy statements, as we cannot control and are not responsible for privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected by Railway Interchange.
Your choices
You may unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email or clicking on the opt-out box on the registration site.
If you do not want Railway Interchange services to collect information through the use of cookies, you can set your web browser to reject cookies from the Services. Each browser is different, so you should check your browser’s “Help” menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Please note that if you reject or block cookies from the services, the services may not function as intended.
Railway Interchange does not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide a method to opt out of the collection of information across the networks of websites and online services in which we participate. For more information, visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.
Security
Railway Interchange deploys administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to safeguard the information that we collect. However, no information system can be 100% secure. So, Railway Interchange cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. Moreover, Railway Interchange is not responsible for the security of information you transmit to us over networks that we do not control, including the Internet and wireless networks.
How to contact us
If you would like to contact us with questions about Railway Interchange privacy practices, you can contact us by sending an email to [email protected].