This is the web site of B&O Trail Association, Incorporated, under the domains www.botrail.org, www.botrail.com, www.rcdi.org

We can be reached via our online contact form, or with the postal address and phone number found on our online contact form.

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

Automatic Collection of Non-Personal Information

For each visitor to our Web page, no personally identifiable information is automatically collected by our Web server. Our Web server automatically recognizes some non-personally identifiable information about the visitors Internet connection, the city in which the connection is based, and basic information about Web browser and computer operating system of the visitor, as well as the the user's IP address.

The non-personally identifiable information automatically collected by our Web server is sent to our web developer, Austin.Athman.net, to help us improve the content and stability of this website, to see which pages are visited, and help design our web site to fit our visitor base.

Voluntary Collection of Personal Information

We collect the e-mail addresses and names of those who communicate with us via e-mail, and aggregate information on what pages were accessed or visited. This information is also collect for Email Newsletter Subscriptions and other submit Forms on the site.

Unless you contact us by email, phone, postal mail, become a supporting (due-paying) member of our organization, or by using the Contact Us forms on this web site, we do not collect any other information about you.

Required Collection of Personal Information for Membership

We collect the names, postal addresses, phones numbers, email addresses, and other demographic information of those who opt to become supporting (dues-paying) members of our organization. In addition, while logged into our site, we collect aggregate information on what pages were accessed or visited.

Email Newsletter Subscriptions

Subscriptions are voluntary and can be canceled any time by logging into our site and canceling your group Email Newsletter subscription. Emails will only by sent out in Newsletter format and will not knowingly include, to the best of our knowledge, SPAM, ads, or viruses of any kind.

Tracking Cookies

We set a small cookie that allows our web developer to know how our site is being viewed, with what program and screen size, and which pages a revisited. This helps us ensure that our site works for everyone who views it, and track down errors on our site.

If you are a registered member, user, author or editor of our website, or otherwise in any way provide a username and password to log in, we set additional cookies to ensure proper function of the site while logged in. The cookie will expire and be deleted when closing the browser or logging out.

Contact from B&O trail Association, Inc.

If you do not want to receive contact us, in any form, from us in the future, please let us know by using the information found on the online Contact Us form.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding the request they placed on-line.

Ad Partnerships

We will never release any personal or non-personal information we have collected to any ad server.

We do not partner with any service to provide ads, target or otherwise, to any user or part of our website.

Access to your Personal Information

Upon request, we will provide a visitor with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about that particular visitor. No other information will be shared.

This request must be in writing to the above postal address, and include the visitors name, postal address, email address, and date of visit, if known.

We may refuse the request to provide information if we feel the request is fraudulent, or questionable in any way.

Corrections to your Personal Information

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, or unique identifiers.

Visitors can have this information corrected by writing to us at the above address.

We may refuse the request to correct information if we feel the request is fraudulent, or questionable in any way.

Security

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical and online facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. This includes Secure Socket Layers to protect transactions while logged into our members area, and while transacting with Paypal to process online donations, membership dues, event fees, or any online credit card transaction initiated by you on this site.

Online Donations, Event Fees and Membership Dues

All credit card transactions requested on our site are transferred securely to Paypal and handled by Paypal servers and services, and fall under Paypal's Privacy Policy and Legal Agreements. B&O Trail is in no way responsible for any errors, omissions, false charges or incorrect charge amounts that occur, as all transactions are transferred to Paypal, and only the results reported back to our site.

Unanticipated Changes to this Policy

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Abuse of Policy

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may submit a message via our online form, or contact our web developer, Athman.net.