Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Eastern Cascades Model Railroad Club

 21520 Modoc Ln.

Bend, OR 97702

www.ecmrrc.org

Introduction

In our mission to make browsing our website better for everyone who accesses this Eastern Cascades Model Railroad Club page, we collect and use information about you.

 

This Privacy Policy will help you better understand how we collect, use, and share your personal information. If we change our privacy practices, we may update this privacy policy. If any changes are significant, we will let you know by posting updates on this webpage.

Our Values

Two main values guide us. These values should help you better understand how we think about your information and privacy.

 

  • Your information belongs to you.

 

We carefully analyze what types of information we need to provide our services, and we try to limit the information we collect to only what we really need. Where possible, we delete or anonymize this information when we no longer need it. Our guiding principle is that your information belongs to you, and we aim to only use your information to your benefit.

 

  •  We protect your information from others.

 

If a third party requests your personal information, we will refuse to share it unless you give us permission or we are legally required. When we are legally required to share your personal information, we will tell you in advance, unless we are legally forbidden.

Why We Process Your Information

We generally process your information when we need to do so to fulfill a contractual obligation, or where we or someone we work with needs to use your personal information for a reason related to their business (for example, to provide you with a service).

 

These are considered legitimate interests, and they include:

  •       Preventing risk and fraud.
  •       Answering questions or providing other types of support.
  •       Providing and improving our products and services.
  •       Providing reporting and analytics.
  •       Testing out features or additional services.
  •       Assisting with marketing, advertising, or other communications.

 

We only process personal information for these legitimate interests after considering the potential risks to your privacy—for example, by providing clear transparency into our privacy practices, offering you control over your personal information where appropriate, limiting the information we keep, limiting what we do with your information, who we send your information to, how long we keep your information, or the technical measures we use to protect your information.

Your Rights Over Your Information

We believe you should be able to access and control your personal information no matter where you live. Depending on how you use the Eastern Cascades Model Railroad Club website, you may have the right to request access to, correct, amend, delete, port to another service provider, restrict, or object to certain uses of your personal information. We will not charge you or provide you with a different level of service if you exercise any of these rights.

 

If you are not happy with our response to a request, you can contact us to resolve the issue. You also have the right to contact your local data protection or privacy authority at any time.

 

Finally, because there is no common understanding about what a “Do Not Track” signal is supposed to mean, we don’t respond to those signals in any particular way.

Where We Send Your Information

There are very few reasons we’d send your information anywhere. But to operate inside the terms of being a nonprofit organization, if we are called upon by a legal or government agency to provide it (for example, if we receive a valid court order), we may send your personal information outside of your state, province, or country. This data may be subject to the laws of the countries where we send it. When we send your information across borders, we take steps to protect your information, and we try to only send your information to countries that have strong data protection laws.

How We Protect Your Information

We work tirelessly to protect your information, and to ensure the security and integrity of our platform. However, we all know that no method of transmission over the Internet, and method of electronic storage, can be 100% secure. This means we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. 

How We Use “Cookies” And Other Tracking Technologies

We use “cookies” and similar tracking technologies on our website and when providing our services. For more information about how we use these technologies, including a list of cookies that we use, and an explanation of how you can opt out of certain types of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.