Regarding information collected via this Web site:

The B&O Railroad Museum adheres to the highest ethical standards in gathering, using, and safeguarding information submitted via this Web site. The B&O Railroad Museum does not rent, sell, or exchange information submitted via this Web site, and use of such information is restricted to The B&O Railroad Museum for marketing purposes.

The B&O Railroad Museum limits access to information collected via this Web site to those staff members who require the information to carry out their business functions; all staff are educated about practices and policies to safeguard that information, and those policies are carefully enforced.

Is it safe to use my credit card online?
The B&O Railroad Museum protects your online transaction and personal information by appropriate security safeguards. Your personal information transmissions, including your payment information, will be encrypted by SSL technology.

Third parties that support The B&O Railroad Museum must agree to safeguard information in the same manner as does The B&O Railroad Museum. Only third parties that require information collected via this Web site in order to support The B&O Railroad Museum are provided with such information.

The B&O Railroad Museum gathers only the information necessary to continue its mission.

The B&O Railroad Museum makes all reasonable efforts to accurately and securely maintain information collected via the Web site. The B&O Railroad Museum monitors and adopts applicable technologies designed to aid in the accuracy and security of information gathered via this Web site.

Information is collected only when visitors to the site voluntarily provide it. Visitors to this site who do not wish for their personally identifiable information to be collected are asked not to provide such information.

Information submitted via this Web site may be stored and used by The B&O Railroad Museum to better understand the needs of visitors to the site, to inform visitors of offers that may be of interest to them, and to improve The B&O Railroad Museum.

If you have provided your E-mail address and wish to remove it from The B&O Railroad Museum mailing lists, please send an E-mail message to agetz@borail.org. The B&O Railroad Museum will make reasonable efforts to delete your E-mail from existing files.

The B&O Railroad Museum has no intention of collecting information from children that may be personally identifiable, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, or E-mail addresses; children are asked not to submit such information. If a child has provided The B&O Railroad Museum with personally identifiable information, the child's parent should request that the child's information be removed from existing files.

This Web site may collect information that is NOT personally identifiable from any visitor to the site, including the visitor's operating system, browser, domain name, and the specific Web pages on The B&O Railroad Museum's Web site that the visitor accesses. Such information is used to improve The B&O Railroad Museum's Web site.

Visitors to The B&O Railroad Museum's Web site are informed that The B&O Railroad Museum may store some information on a visitors computer in the form of a "cookie" or similar file. These files allow The B&O Railroad Museum to tailor its Web site to reflect the visitors listed or historical preferences. Most Web browsers notify a user when such a file is stored and allow the user to erase or block such files in his/her computer, as per the browser's instructions.