Railyard Stewards

Privacy Policy

The Railyard Stewards is committed to protecting your privacy. The information below covers what information The Railyard Stewards collects on the Website and how we use it. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us via email at info@railyardpark.org.

What information do we collect?

The Railyard Stewards collects information volunteered by visitors, such as answers to survey questions, information collected when downloading or requesting publications and information collected when contacting us for assistance. Information The Railyard Stewards collects includes personally identifiable information (for example, name, address, and email), information about organizational affiliation, and information about your interests. No personably identifiable information is collected about individuals without their knowledge. The Railyard Stewards also collects aggregate information about Website use, without identifying personal information, such as what pages and sections are most popular with users. We also collect your email when you sign up for our e-newsletters but this occurs only with the full intention and consent of the user.

How is this information used by The Railyard Stewards?

The Railyard Stewards uses the information you voluntarily provide to help us decide what Website content, publications, emails, and other Railyard Stewards’ information would most help you meet your goals and to shape our Web content and email outreach. The Railyard Stewards uses aggregate information about Website usage to shape Website content.

Sharing information with third parties

The Railyard Stewards shares aggregate information about Web users and Web usage with our contractors who help us shape Web content to user interests and otherwise improve our Website. The Railyard Stewards does not make any list of visitors to the www.railyardpark.org website available to third parties. We make portions of our postal mailing list available to carefully screened organizations that we believe may interest you. If you do not want to receive this information, please let us know.

Email policy

The Railyard Stewards provides forms on its Website where users can sign-up to receive email publications and email notices. No one is placed on a regular email list that has not requested subscription through these forms or in some other manner. Users can unsubscribe from any email list on the registration section of our Website or through the unsubscribe link on any email we send you. As new email publications are developed, users may be sent an invitation to subscribe.

The Railyard Stewards takes the following measures to ensure that information collected on The Railyard Stewards’ Website is kept secure and is used as intended:

All data is stored on secure, firewall-protected servers either at The Railyard Stewards offices or those of business with whom The Railyard Stewards has contracted to support our online donation, email outreach, and website upkeep services. Data is accessible only by authorized staff of The Railyard Stewards and its contractors.

Sensitive data, such as credit card and other financial information, is collected through PayPal, which uses industry-standard Secure Socket Layer Encryption (SSL) technology.

Credit card information is retained only as long as necessary to complete the donation or purchase request of the user.

The Railyard Stewards takes utmost precaution to protect credit card information. But users who prefer not to use credit cards for online donations can send donations to our address available in our contact us section.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on your computer and are used for record keeping purposes. The Railyard Steward’s Web site does not currently use cookies to track unauthenticated users and site visitors, except for collecting anonymous website usage statistics. Website visitors that choose to place comments on the blog will be asked to login. Once a user is logged in their browser will store use a temporary session cookie to indicate that they are currently logged in.

The Railyard Steward’s electronic newsletter system uses “session” cookies to assist the system in providing a user with access to his or her subscription information. Session cookies are temporary and expire when a browser session is closed.

The Railyard Steward’s electronic newsletter system requires a password to access the subscription management page. For the convenience of users, The Railyard Stewards offers the opportunity to be “remembered,” by the system so a password is only required on the first access. Asking to be “remembered” by clicking the “remember me” or similar dialog box when asked places a permanent cookie on the user’s machine. The Railyard Stewards’ system never places a permanent cookie on the users’ machine unless a user specifically makes this request.

Links to Other Sites

The Railyard Stewards’ Website provides links to several other third party Websites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take any responsibility for the content of linked Websites, or for the privacy policies of Websites we link to. Since we do not control these Websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party Websites prior to any use.

Privacy Policy Changes

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time. Your continued use of our Website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.

Updated: May 11, 2011

Legal Notices about This Web site

Copyright and Use of Materials

Copyright by The Railyard Stewards. All rights reserved. Other parties may hold or claim proprietary, trademark, servicemark and copyright interests in material on or delivered from this Website. Materials on this Website may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of The Railyard Stewards and/or the party holding rights to such material. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, you may download one copy of the information on this Website for personal, non-commercial use. If you download, you may not modify the materials, use them for a commercial purpose or for public display, remove any copyright or trademark information, transfer the materials to another person, or allow unauthorized copying of the materials.

The Railyard StewardsTrademark Information

The Railyard Stewards and all other names and programs of The Railyard Stewards, as well as their logos, are trademarks of The Railyard Stewards (or Cisneros Designs for the logo, which The Railyard Stewards have use rights for).

Information Warranty Disclaimer

THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT  WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE RAILYARD STEWARDS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TITLE OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE RAILYARD STEWARDS DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE MATERIALS IN THIS WEBSITE ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE, OR ARE OF ANY PARTICULAR QUALITY.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE RAILYARD STEWARDS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIALS CONTAINED IN, OR ACCESSED THROUGH, THIS WEBSITE.

Content Posted by Third Parties

Any information you or other third parties post to this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Railyard Stewards will have no responsibility regarding such information, and will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and use the communications for any purpose. You are prohibited from posting information that is defamatory, threatening, obscene, or a violation of any copyright, or which identifies you as someone else. The Railyard Stewards is under no obligation to monitor the information residing on or transmitted to this web site. The Railyard Stewards reserves the right to modify, reject, or eliminate any information residing on or transmitted to this web site that, in its sole discretion, it believes is unacceptable or in violation of these terms and conditions. The use, distribution, or publication of any materials posted by third parties does not constitute or imply an endorsement of such materials or of any opinions or comments in such materials. While the posting party may retain ownership of the copyright in the materials it posts, the posting party agrees that The Railyard Stewards or other third parties accessing those materials through the Railyard Stewards Website will have a license to use the posting, without any requirement of paying the posting party or attributing ownership to the posting party.

Updated : May 20, 2011