RailfanDepot is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our visitors and customers. This policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you as you visit our site. We do use a limited number of cookies on this site. More about cookies is shared below. First let’s get the financial stuff out of the way:

  • We never see your credit card information.  It is sent direct from our checkout to the credit card processing company via a secure encrypted connection.  We never see it.
  • You are given the option to keep your card “on file”, but we do not store the information here. Our credit card processing company, one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, will keep it for you, encrypted, on their servers. Again, we never even see the card information.
  • If you call to place an order.  We will have to take your credit card information for the time needed to place the order.  We will then destroy the information. We will offer to keep it “on file” via our credit card processing company, but will never keep it here.

Information We Collect

In running and maintaining this website, providing services to you, we may collect and process the following bits of data about your visit.

  • Anonymous data is collected in the aggregate about the number of visitors, what pages, stories or links are the most popular.
  • Data on your use of the site, such as pages you visit, what browser you use, your general location and resources you access. Much of this information is necessary to operate the site. We do not collect your name.
  • Data on your use of the site, such as pages you visit, what browser you use, your general location and resources you access may be shared with a third party to help facilitate ads or purchases by you. We do not collect your name, except during the checkout process.
  • Information provided voluntarily by you. Filling out a form to receive our newsletter for instance. Your email is never shared with a third party or advertisers.

Use of Cookies

  • Cookies must be used for our checkout to work correctly. Otherwise we can not know what you put in your cart or if you have a discount.
  • Cookies are used by us to track your movements on the site. This is to facilitate your experience and our understanding of how our website is used so we may hopefully create a better website for you. and other visitors. These cookies do not contain your name.
  • Cookies may be used by us to serve you railfan relevant ads elsewhere on the internet, such as Facebook or Google Search.
  • Our advertisers, if any, may also use cookies to target you for ads you may be more interested in. Generally those cookies are only used when you interact with an advertiser.

Off Site Links

We try to inform you and share relevant information. That often means a link to an off this blog website. We share links carefully, but we do not endorse their privacy policies.

We gather the least amount of information possible.  And never sell that information. And finally, this is a safe website. Every page, not just our checkout page, is secured by 128/256 bit SSL encryption. To read more about all we do to make our website secure, please see this article on our blog.