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Privacy policy

At railwaymates.com the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This page outlines how information is used and the options you have to control your data.

Updated: November 20, 2021(Previous updates: June 7 2013, October 20 2017, May 14, 2018)

Cookie settings

A quick overview of our cookies and your options to enable/disable them. Full details further below.

Essential cookies

Preferences:
Security:
Performance analytics:

Advertising cookies

Contextual via scalemates:
Personal via 3rd parties:
We stopped personalised 3rd party advertising in May 2018 to increase your privacy

Social media cookies

Social plugins:
We removed Facebook/Twitter/Instagram plugins in May 2018 to increase your privacy
Youtube embedded video:
We use www.youtube-nocookie.com since May 2018 to increase your privacy

 

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Applicable to guests and members

This section is applicable to all users, both guests and members.

Communications

All traffic between the browser and our infrastructure is encrypted (HTTPS) for privacy reasons.

Log files and security

The log files of our infrastructure (server/CDN) track industry standard information (IP, Browser, ISP, time stamps, requests...) to protect our network as well as information security (your data).

Data collection in our logs is set up in a privacy friendly mode:

We use a minimum amount of short lived cookies to help us protect against malicious users.

Cookies:
Security/Bot protection: Cookie name: ak_bmsc (2 hours)
Security/Bot protection: Cookie name: bm_sv (2 hours)
Additional security cookies can be added at any time to protect our and therefore your data.

User experience

In order to increase the user experience and remember your preferences we use cookies.

Cookies:
Performance optimisations: Cookie name: AKA_A2 (2 hours)
Mobile/Desktop version: Cookie name: design (3 months)
Sort-by filters: Cookie name: sortby (3 months)
Cookie consent: Cookie name: CONSENT (2 years)

Performance analytics

Nobody likes slow loading webpages. We therefore use Akamai mPulse, a performance monitoring solution that assists us in monitoring and optimizing our website for speed and quality (eg. pageload, time to first byte,...).

Data collection towards mPulse is set up in a privacy friendly mode:

mPulse makes use of one cookie storing short term session data (30mins) and technical data (7 days).

Cookies:
Distinguish users: Cookie name: RT (30mins)
Technical data: Cookie name: RT (7 days)

Contextual Advertising

To keep this website available as a free service we display contextual banner advertising. We use an own hosted advertising solution, so there is no data leakage towards 3rd parties and pages load super fast.

Data collection towards mPulse is set up in a privacy friendly mode:

In order for this service to work correctly we use a number of session and persistent cookies starting with OA*. (eg. to limit the same banner being shown to the same user, to track clicks and performance improvements and for Geo targeting).

Cookies:
Session identifier: Cookie name: SCM-ID (90 days)
Geo Location (Country level): Cookie name: SCM-GEO (session)
Banner capping: Cookie name: OASCCAP, OASCAP (session)
Banner blocking: Cookie name: OACBLOCK, OABLOCK (30 days)
Last click: Cookie name: OXBLC (90 days)

Applicable to members only

This section is only applicable to members.

Required profile info

When creating an account you need to enter some basic personal information which is stored in our database. This required info is limited to the bare minimum: nickname, email and password

Data collection and usage is set up in a privacy friendly mode:

While logged in we use a persistent cookie to remember your session ID.

Cookies:
Guests vs Members: Cookie name: U (30 days)
Session identifier: Cookie name: PHPSESSID (30 days)
Language: Cookie name: lang2 (30 days)

Optional profile info

Other personal information (Name, Birthdate, Gender, Activities, Clubs, Favorites,...) you add to your profile is optional data. And fully under your control

Stash management info

Stash management and related activities are by default public.

Projects/Albums/Collection info

All Projects/Albums/Collection information is public by nature. You own full control of what is saved and visible

Contributor info

As a member you have to option to make changes to the shared database (kits, tools, events, sites, books, colors, magazines, ...)

Right to be forgotten

You have the right to have your personal data erased/modified/corrected/anonymised and we will if applicable adhere to these requests in a timely fashion.

railwaymates.com - ad hoc requests

Scope: All users (guests and members)

Does content on railwaymates.com contain your personal information which should be removed? Please provide us with the necessary details and we will act on it swiftly.

Scope: Members

We offer very granular control on your own content in a self service mode.

Delete actions mark content as inactive/invisible immediately, but can take up to 24 hours for actual deletion.

railwaymates.com - Account removal

Please note: Account removal is final and not revertible!

Scope: Members

In case, you want to stop your membership and have your full personal profile erased you can do this in a self service mode.

Scope: Members (Contributors)

Links to Independent Websites

Articles, forum topics and comments hosted on railwaymates.com may link to independently run web sites outside of the https://www.railwaymates.com domain. railwaymates.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such web sites.

More info

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated privacy policy, please contact us immediately.