Mountain and Valley Railroad's Site Privacy Policy.
Mountain and Valley Railroad respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information that you share with us. This policy describes how we collect and use your personal information when we need your personal information to provide services that you request by clicking a page or link, or when you choose to provide us with your personal information through our website.
Information Collection:
Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, company name, email address, telephone number, postal or other physical address, birth date, gender, occupation, Certain of our product and services also store connection or session information such as time/date and length of collection, IP address, chat logs and technician information.
As you navigate through this site, certain anonymous information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without your actively providing the information) using various technologies, such as cookies, Internet tags, and navigational data collection (log files, server logs, clickstream). Your internet browser automatically transmits to this site some of this anonymous information, such as the URL of the website you just came from and the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the browser version your computer is currently using, the date and time you access the site and the pages that you access while at the site. This information is used for internal/external marketing purposes, to analyse trends and to improve the site. This site may also collect anonymous information from your computer through cookies, internet tags or web beacons. You may set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent or to refuse cookies altogether, but certain features of this site might not work without cookies.
What is a Cookie:
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies save you time, for example, if you personalise a web page, or navigate within a Site, a cookie recalls your specific information on subsequent visits. The Mountain and Valley Railroad website also uses cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. You may accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies.
In addition to cookies, our site uses a variety of technical methods for tracking purposes, including web beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites. The Mountain and Valley Railroad also uses these technical methods to analyse the traffic patterns on our website, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our website.
How We Use Information Collected:
Mountain and Valley Railroad will not transfer your personal information to third parties, except that we may transfer your personal information without your consent to the extent required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
[a.] conform to the edicts of law or comply with legal process served on Mountain and Valley Railroad or the site;
[b.] protect or defend the rights or property of Mountain and Valley Railroad and act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety, property, or privacy of The Mountain and Valley Railroad employees, users of The Mountain and Valley Railroad products or service, or members of the public, or
[c.] effect a transaction, restructuring or proceeding that transfers to a third party the assets or line of business to which the information pertains. If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we may transfer that information within Mountain and Valley Railroad or to Mountain and Valley Railroad's third-party service providers with your permission. In addition, Mountain and Valley Railroad may send your personal information to other companies or people under any of the following circumstances: when we have your consent to share the information; we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Mountain and Valley Railroad to provide a product or service to you (we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose).
In addition, we may share non-identifiable aggregate information about our users (for example, the proportion of male and female users) with advertisers, business partners, and other third parties in an effort to customise or enhance the content and advertising on our website for our users.
Your Ability to Review and Delete Information:
You can always ask to review any personal information that we have collected from you, have us update, correct or delete this information and/or instruct us not to use this information in the future. If you wish to exercise this right, simply contact us by using our contact form.
Data Security:
Your personal information is protected for your privacy and security. Mountain and Valley Railroad safeguards the security and confidentiality of the data you send us with physical, technical, and managerial procedures. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us, and so we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser and use secure antivirus software on your Computer.
Our website may contain links to websites or videos operated by other companies. Some of these third-party sites may be co-branded with a Mountain and Valley Railroad logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by Mountain and Valley Railroad. Although we choose our business partners carefully, Mountain and Valley Railroad is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our site. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third-party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.
The providers ("we", "us", "our") of the service provided by this website ("Service") are not responsible for any user-generated content and accounts ("Content"). Content submitted expresses the views of its author only.
You agree not to use the Service to submit or link to any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, contains adult or objectionable content, contains personal information of others, risks copyright infringement, encourages unlawful activity, or otherwise violates any laws.
All Content you submit to this website or our Facebook page will be reviewed by staff members. Do not submit any Content that you consider to be private or confidential.We reserve the right to remove or modify any Content submitted for any reason without explanation. Requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion.
You are granting us a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with this site. You retain all copyright over the Content.
Does Mountain and Valley Railroad share any information it receives about me?
No, never, as we respect your privacy and are appreciative of your visits and the trust you have placed in us to provide our services. At no stage (other than already explained) will we provide any account, email, contact or other personal information to third-party vendors, associates or service providers.
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, news, reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
Mountain and Valley Railroad will amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will make that information available by posting a notice on this site.
Children's Privacy:
Our website is a general audience site that does not target and is not intended for children under the age of 13 without supervision. Mountain and Valley Railroad does not knowingly solicit or maintain personal information about children under the age of 13.
International Privacy Protection:
Personal information that we maintain is controlled and processed in Australia, which might not provide the same level of privacy protections as in your country of residence. Mountain and Valley Railroad adheres to the Australian Privacy Principles guidelines (APP guidelines) administered by the Australian Government @
Contact Information:
Mountain and Valley Railroad welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you believe that Mountain and Valley Railroad has not adhered to this privacy statement, please simply contact us by using our contact form, and we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to determine and remedy the problem promptly.
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