PRIVACY POLICY: UPDATED 04-25-2006

1. ATD LINES
2. Information Collected
3. Uses Information
4. Providing Merchants with Contact Information
5. Divulging Information for Legal and Administrative
6. Other Contact Information
8. Benefits and Participating Marketing
9. Financial Information
10. Demographic Information
11. Information on Other Web Business Collected
12. IP Address
13. Cookies
14. Security Precautions and Geographic Information
15. Selling Railway Images
16. Public Areas
17. Contact ATD LINES


ATD LINES, Inc. has created this privacy policy to demonstrate company's firm commitment to protecting information submit and to make clients aware of the practices and choices about how the information submit is used, as well as educate clients and companies about privacy issues relative to using ATD LINES Business Services. This privacy policy only applies to transactions made, personal data gathered, and information stored by clients on the ATD LINES web service. Please review this privacy policy periodically as ATD LINES may update it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on April 25, 2004. Each time clients visit the ATD LINES or Contracted services or provide ATD LINES with information, by doing so clients are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time. You agree that by using the ATD LINES clients are expressly and affirmatively consenting to our use and disclosure of the information that clients provide, and consenting to receive emails, as described below in this privacy policy.

This policy may be revised over time as new features and Business services are added to the ATD LINES or as ATD LINES incorporate suggestions from clients and customers. If ATD LINES disclose your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time ATD LINES collected the information, clients and customers will have a choice as to whether or not ATD LINES use or disclose such information in this new manner. Any material changes will be effective only after providing communications by e-mail with at least 30 days' notice of the amended Privacy Policy.

ATD LINES will also post a notification that the Privacy Policy has been amended prominently on web service so that individuals can always review what information was gathered, how ATD LINES might use that information, and under which conditions ATD LINES will disclose it to anyone.

1. ATD LINES:

ATD LINES in this privacy policy, we mean American Train Destination Lines, Inc., a Washington State corporation, and those ATD LINES subsidiaries used to provide on-line media services that operate primarily under the "ATD LINES" brand name. Accordingly, all information we receive may be shared among the different parts of ATD LINES in connection with ATD LINES operations, and all information that is subject to this privacy policy will be used in accordance with this privacy policy by all parts of ATD LINES. However, ATD LINES does not include subcontracting services or other, non-subsidiary affiliated companies, as those companies are referred to in this privacy policy as "subcontracts," "other companies" or "third parties."

2. Information Collected:

In order to conduct business operations, as a railway, ATD LINES provide s information on products and services that may be of interest to business clients and customers of ATD LINES and may collect "contact information" (i.e., information that could be used to contact business clients or customers such as full name, postal address, phone number and email address as well as your computer's unique IP address (if any)), "financial information" (i.e., passwords, credit and debit card numbers and bank and other financial institution account numbers) and "demographic information" (e.g., zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, purchase history information and age as well as IP addresses that are not unique to your computer) from you. Please note that ATD LINES does not knowingly collect contact information or financial information from children under the age of 18.

3. Uses Information:

A. Order and Payment Processing, Customer Service, Credit Card Issuers and Quality Assurance. ATD LINES uses contact information to help company operate efficiently to perform transactions, to deliver the services clients and business services have requested, to perform quality assurance, sales analyses and other business analyses, and to contact clients in connection with any orders or railway business operations. ATD LINES may also provide client contact information to credit card issuer or to credit card processors for business purposes. When clients or business customers and company's make a purchase or contract through the ATD LINES electronic transfers, or register with the ATD LINES, clients or customers and business relations will provide ATD LINES with an email address, contact information, where ATD LINES, or these service providers, may contact clients or customers for the purposes described in this paragraph.

B. Contacting Clients, Customers or Business Relations for Offers and Promotions. After clients provide ATD LINES with an email address or other contact information and agree to receive promotional materials in connection with ordering goods or railway services through the ATD LINES electronic transfers or registering with the ATD LINES, or in connection with any Special Offers as described below, clients and customers may visit the "ATD LINES" web site. There clients or customers will be given the opportunity to refuse receiving promotional emails, electronic transfers from ATD LINES and to separately refuse receiving promotional emails or electronic transfers from certain third parties, or from ATD LINES on their behalf, whom ATD LINES believes offers quality goods or services that may interest consumers. If any client or customer have refused receiving promotional emails, such client or customer may e-mail ATD LINES and request removal or request to choose to begin receiving promotional emails full of great offers from ATD LINES and/or great offers relating to quality goods and services from third parties. "Promotional emails" are emails that are sent solely for promotional purposes. By submitting an email address to ATD LINES clients or customers agree that ATD LINES may send promotional emails to that email address, on behalf or on behalf of a quality third party vendor, in accordance with ATD LINES Policy until such time that clients or customers indicate preference not to receive electronic Published materials. It is ATD LINES Policy to send only a reasonable number of promotional emails to our users. Please note that if clients or customers or possible customers ask not to receive promotional emails from ATD LINES, clients may still receive promotional emails during the next 72-hour period as updates throughout ATD LINES Marketing & Sales Electronic Communications Systems are attained for corrections and you may still receive non-promotional, business emails from ATD LINES.

4. Providing Merchants with Contact Information:

In addition to selling digital imaging media services on Railway Imaging Services, ATD LINES may sell other goods or services, or allow merchants, clients, companies to participate in contests, or other offers or programs on Railway Business Car Services, Event Carriers, Short Lines or any Services offered by ATD LINES. These goods, services, contests, or other offers or programs ("Special Offers") for which merchants, companies, governmental agencies or clients make purchases, orders, inquires, pricing or travel/shipping packages or for which such individuals or companies, merchants or clients participate in or register, may be provided by third parties ("Merchants"). Consequently, if such is indicated or elect to engage in a specific Merchant's Special Offer, ATD LINES may provide Merchant with your contact information; when such processing is elected to engage in a Merchant's Special Offer you affirmatively and expressly consent for ATD LINES to provide specific information, email address and other information to Merchant. Because Merchants are not part of ATD LINES, Merchants are not subject to this privacy policy and may use client, company or agency contact information to communicate with such individuals, clients, companies by sending emails or through other means, and may share such contact information with others. If individuals, companies or clients want to learn about a particular Merchant’s privacy policy, or do not want to receive communications from a particular Merchant, or have other questions, instructions or concerns requiring future communications and would like a Merchant to respond, then you must contact that Merchant directly.

5. Divulging Information for Legal and Administrative:

ATD LINES may disclose specific contact infromation. Therefore, ATD LINES determines such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement and Department Homeland Security Acts, protect the interests or safety of ATD LINES. Including other visitors, business & partnership associates, governmental agencies, railroad affairs, clients, consumers to ATD LINES or users of services or products provided by ATD LINES. Thereby, any contact information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition, consolidation, divestiture, or bankruptcy of ATD LINES. Thereby subject to a pledge of confidentiality under which the recipient of any contact information agrees to use the information solely for the purpose of carrying out the transaction.

6. Other Contact Information:

Refusing to receiving promotional or marketing emails from a third party or from ATD LINES on behalf of a third party, then ATD LINES will not share contact information with unaffiliated third parties, unless ATD LINES is otherwise permitted to under this privacy policy. If no refusal is received for all promotional emails, then ATD LINES may share contact information if ATD LINES believe it will benefit business relations to improve services or performance. These third parties may communicate directly with about their products and services.

7. Responsibility:

ATD LINES will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any use or disclosure of client, customer, consumer, company or merchant contact information by a third party to whom ATD LINES is allowed to disclose contact information under this privacy policy.

8. Benefits and Participating Marketing:

Every ATD LINES newsletter, press release, news or photography journalism, business letters advertisement, media promotions contains, in addition to useful instructions on new or applied upgrades to ATD LINES features, railway services or other business programs. Each newsletter contains a promotional code, specific identification or information that is only available to newsletter, press release or business letter readers; ATD LINES make these offers as a way of expanding business opportunities or business relations most enthusiastic and well-informed users. Specific communications or emails may not be refused from ATD LINES related to the maintenance of account, railway orders specific to operations and business management. ATD LINES may notify problems concerning account or railway business services, which could lead to the railway problems, service or sales because of unread mail and unacceptable response or inappropriately communications to the email. .

9. Uses of Financial Information:

ATD LINES use financial information to help ATD LINES efficiently perform sales and other transactions on the web business service, to deliver the goods and services requested, to enroll in any bulk order, monthly subscription and other programs that may be offered and elect to participate and to perform quality assurance. ATD LINES may also provide financial information to credit card issuer, financial institutions or credit card processors to process transactions for other business operations and purposes related to ATD LINES.

ATD LINES may disclose specific financial information when company determines that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of ATD LINES or other visitors, clients, customers or users of services or products provided by ATD LINES. Financial information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition, consolidation, divestiture, or a bankruptcy of ATD LINES, subject to a pledge of confidentiality under which the recipient contact information agrees to use the information solely for the purpose of carrying out the transaction.

ATD LINES will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any use or disclosure of financial information by a third party to whom ATD LINES is allowed to disclose financial information under this privacy policy.

10. Demographic Information

ATD LINES may use your demographic information to perform business analyses or to tailor the web site and communications to best interests. ATD LINES may share anonymous, aggregated demographic information with advertisers and other third parties so that business opportunities can tailor advertisements and communications to the appropriate audience. Any time that ATD LINES is allowed under this privacy policy to share contact information or financial information, ATD LINES may also share demographic information along with it.

11. Information on Other Web Business Collected:

On the ATD LINES web sites, links are provided to other web sites operated by other parties and from time to time we include information and links to third party web sites in our promotional email. Some of these other web sites contain ATD LINES brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property that ATD LINE own; others do not. When clients or individuals visit these links and visit other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain ATD LINES brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, clients or individuals viewing need to be aware that ATD LINES do not control other web services or other business practices or policies, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web businesses. Consequently, the operators of these other web programs may collect different kinds of information about clients, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than ATD LINES collects data. ATD LINES encourage clients and individuals to review privacy policies and ATD LINES will not be responsible for other business link actions.

12. IP Address:

Like most e-commerce web services, each time individual visit the web business link, ATD LINES automatically collects IP address and the web page from which link made. In order to administer and optimize the web business performance for clients and to diagnose problems with ATD LINES web services, use of IP address to identify and to gather broad demographic information.

13. Cookies:

Like most web business services, cookies keep track of purchases and other activity on the web business sales and enhance web services experience. ATD LINES also use cookies to deliver content specific to interests and to facilitate the retrieval of information so clients do not have to re-enter it each time visit to ATD LINES. Others web business services may place or read cookies on client browser as well. If desired to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will provide information on procedures. However, set browser to disable cookies, may not be able to access certain areas or features of web programs.

14. Security Precautions and Geographic Information:

The web business service has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under ATD LINES control. ATD LINES uses security technology to protect the security of commerce transactions. ATD LINES encrypt contact information and financial information as it travels over the Internet and ATD LINES data storage of financial information on ATD LINES servers in encrypted form. Information may be transferred to and maintained in whole or in part on electronic networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which clients reside, and may be stored on equipment or in facilities leased or licensed from third parties.

No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while ATD LINES strive to protect personal and business information and make all commercially reasonable efforts to do so, ATD LINES cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmit to ATD LINES and do so at own risk. ATD LINES receive transmission, make best effort to ensure its security on ATD LINES systems.

Sole responsible for maintaining the secrecy of passwords, account data and/or any financial information is client responsibility. Be careful and responsible whenever sending information online.

15. Buying and Selling Railway Images:

ATD Railway Imaging Services allows general public to purchase railway digital images, print format and related imaging travel or other products. No personal information shall be available to the purchaser of railway image products, other than purchasing ID unless otherwise required by the terms of this Privacy Policy.

When purchasing railway images, the ATD LINES will have access to client's name and contact information, but shall not have access to financial information.

16. Public Areas:

Protecting Privacy. ATD LINES Web Business Services provides clients with the opportunity to do business with ATD LINES. This privacy policy does not apply to any information, including such data, which submit for use in public areas. ATD LINES requests clients do not submit any personal information, including contact information or financial information, for display in public areas. Submitting such information for display in public areas, ATD LINES cannot prevent it from being used in a manner that violates the law, personal privacy or safety. By submitting such information for display in public areas, all assumed risks and sole liability arising as a result of such information being displayed.

While ATD LINES works extremely hard to maintain a business and family-friendly atmosphere within ATD LINES web business services. ATD LINES Railway Images viewed by chosen guests and the public at-large except when clients link them to ATD LINES web services. ATD LINES subcontracts Railway Imaging Services to DOTPHOTO, who: is not responsible for any inappropriate or illegal use, distribution, or sale of photographs and/or downloaded images made public by our users. We strongly urge you use caution when selecting which, if any, photographs in your on-line collection that you wish to make available for viewing and/or purchase by the general public, especially photographs featuring children.

Inappropriate Images. ATD LINES subcontracts to Dotphoto require that all photographs that are, in Dotphoto Web Services has sole discretion.

17. Contact ATD LINES:

If any questions or concerns about ATD LINES privacy policy or would like to make contact regarding the information, can contact us at the following address:

To contact us:

By email: atdlines@usa.com

By Mail: 245 High School Road, NW2, Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110

ATN: Legal Department



To the extent required by law or otherwise, ATD LINES will notify clients that the security of the information submit has been compromised, then agree that ATD LINES may give such notice by email or electronic notification instead of by regular mail.


All requests submitted via e-mail to ATD Lines:

RAILWAY BUSINESS CAR SERVICES
All Inquires submitted To:
rbcs@usa.com

[Email Us]

[Return to Top]


Crossing Gate]
© Copyright 1981-
ATD LINES All Rights Reserved
Not affilated nor owned by NRPC-Amtrak

Power By ETS]

Counter Statistics