Alaska Railroad Corporation ("ARRC", “we” or “us”) respects your personal privacy and is committed to adhering to federal and state privacy laws and industry guidelines in order to protect you and your identity. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how we handle the personal information that you provide to us on this website (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website, not to any other ARRC, affiliate or third party sites that may be accessible from here.
Please be sure to read this Privacy Policy before using the Website or submitting information to us. You should review this Privacy Policy carefully, because if you do not agree with our practices, your ultimate choice is not to use the Website. Remember, by using any part of the Website, you accept and agree to our privacy practices. Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the Website after the posting of the revised Privacy Policy means that you accept and agree to the terms of the revised Privacy Policy. Please check this area periodically for updates to this Privacy Policy.
- INFORMATION ARRC COLLECTS FROM YOU
Active Information Collection
Like many other websites, we actively collect information from our visitors both by asking specific questions on the Website and by permitting you to communicate directly with us via e-mail. Some of the information that you submit while making a purchase may be personally identifiable (that is, information that can be uniquely identified with you, such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, etc.). Also, if you place an order, you will be required to provide financial information.When you visit the Website, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. We will inform you which information is optional. If you opt not to make a purchase on the Website, you still can visit the Website but you will not be able to access certain areas of the Website.
Passive Information Collection
As you navigate through a website, certain information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without you actively providing the information) using various technologies and means, such as navigational data collection. For example, we and/or our service providers may track IP addresses, assign internet tags, and use session, persistent and flash cookies or any other successor tracker technology. We and our service providers may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit on the Website and collect operational information about the technology you use, such as your browser, operating systems, Internet Protocol address, system and application software, peripherals, internet service providers and the domain name of the website from which you linked to this Website.
Most internet browsers enable you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
We reserve the right to use electronic images known as web beacons, also referred to as single-pixel GIFs, and any other successor technology, that permit us to count users who have visited certain Website pages and for other related statistics (e.g., recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity). Web beacons are not used to access your personal information on the Website; they are solely used to compile aggregated statistics concerning the use of the Website. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, the time and date of a page view and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.
We do not collect personally identifiable information automatically, but we may tie information collected automatically to your previously submitted personally identifiable information.
We passively collect information to understand what areas of the Website are most popular, which areas may require improvement and what technologies are being used by our visitors. This information helps us to update and improve the Website. We also use this information for security purposes, to detect and to block security breaches and to provide you with a safe online environment.
2. HOW ARRC USES YOUR INFORMATION
ARRC uses your personal information to enhance the operation of the Website and allow you to use all of its features.
Your contact information (billing, shipping, and e-mail addresses) and financial information will be used for the purposes for which you supplied it to us (e.g., requesting a brochure with the Website, processing orders, etc.), to send you related notices or promotional materials and to respond to your comments or requests for information.
We may disclose personally identifiable information you provide via the Website to third parties, but only:
- (a) to contractors we use to support our business, in which case we will require such third parties to agree to use the information for the same purposes.
- (b) to respond to law enforcement requests, where required by applicable laws, court order or governmental regulations, or where we have reason to believe infringing material has been posted on the Website.
- (c) in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, assignment or other transfer of our business to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and use it for the same purposes. And/or
- (d) in situations involving threats to the physical safety of any person.
ARRC does not otherwise distribute to third parties your personally identifiable information. ARRC, however, will have no liability for disclosure of information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized intervention of third parties.
We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, online traffic patterns, and related information to reputable third parties, but these statistics will not include any personally identifying information.
Although ARRC does not currently rent, sell, or otherwise share your information with third parties for purposes unrelated to this Website, it may do so in the future. If you do not want your information to be shared, you should contact us at reillye@akrr.com.
3. WHAT ABOUT THIRD PARTY SERVICES YOU ACCESS THROUGH THE WEBSITE?
There may be links on the Website providing access to other websites and/or resources over which we have no control. These links are provided solely as a convenience to users and should not be construed as an affiliation with or endorsement by ARRC. You access and use such other websites, including the content, items or services on those websites, solely at your own risk.
ARRC does not have control over the privacy policies applied by any other party to whom you may disclose information. We are not responsible for their content or privacy policies. If you would like information on another party's privacy policy, you should contact that party directly, and we encourage you to do so.
4. VISITOR PHOTO ALBUM
The Website contains a page for users to upload personal photographs for public viewing. By registering with ARRC to upload photographs, you are warranting that you have the authority to authorize the public display of those photographs. You are representing and warranting that you own all rights in the photographs and that you have obtained all necessary consent from any third party whose images are depicted to reproduce said photographs, and if requested by ARRC, you will be able to promptly deliver proof of all required consents.
By uploading a photograph to the Visitor Photo Album, you are granting ARRC a license to display and reproduce the photo and caption in any format as ARRC sees fit. ARRC is under no obligation to display the photograph and may remove the photograph if it is deemed obscene, infringes on a third party trademark, or for any other reason determined at the sole discretion of ARRC.
5. COPYRIGHT POLICY
The information contained within this website is the sole property of ARRC. Copyright in the material contained in this website, other than some photographs, belongs to ARRC. Copyright in the photographs contained in this website belong either to ARRC or to other individuals or groups that have provided their permission to ARRC for their use in this website. Permission is hereby granted to download information from this website for the user’s personal, non-commercial viewing and printing. Any other use of the information or photographs contained in this website requires the prior written consent of ARRC.
6. HOW ARRC PROTECTS YOUR INFORMATION
We use both technical and procedural methods to protect the integrity and security of the personal information in our databases, including the use of firewalls, encryption for data transfer, restricted access to data, and employee training.
7. WHAT ARRC DOES ABOUT CHILDREN VISITING THE WEBSITE
The Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect information from visitors in this age group. We encourage parents to talk to their children about their use of the internet and the information they disclose online. If a child has provided us with personally identifiable information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us via e-mail at reillye@akrr.com if they would like this information deleted from our records. We will use reasonable efforts to delete the child's information from our databases.
8. HOW YOU CAN CONTACT ARRC
If you have submitted personally identifiable information through the Website or an interactive advertisement, or if someone else has submitted your personally identifiable information through the Website or an interactive advertisement, and you would like to have that information deleted from our marketing databases, please contact us via e-mail at reillye@akrr.com. We will then use reasonable efforts to remove your personally identifiable information from our files. You also may contact us to request the personally identifiable information that ARRC has collected about you through the Website or interactive advertisements. ARRC will use reasonable efforts to supply you with this information and correct any factual inaccuracies in this information.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of the Website, please contact us at:
Eileen M. Reilly
Vice President, Advanced Train Control Systems & Technology
reillye@akrr.com
907.265.2655
This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 16, 2013.
