Updated, Posted and effective as of January 1, 2025
This additional state-specific privacy disclosure page ("Disclosure") supplements Trainz.com, Inc.’s (“Trainz”), Privacy Policy which describes the personal information that we collect, the sources from which we collect it, the purposes for which we use it, the limited circumstances under which we share personal information, and with whom we share it. These additional disclosures are required by certain state privacy laws, and provide a Notice at Collection under the California Privacy Rights Act:
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Categories of personal information collected. The personal information that Trainz collects, or has collected from consumers in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date above, fall into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act and other state privacy laws, depending on which Trainz is used:
- identifiers such as your name, alias, address, phone numbers, IP address, your Trainz account log-in information, or a government-issued identifier (such as a social security number, which may be required for tax purposes if you are a Seller, or an ID you provide for identity verification, which in some cases may reflect citizenship or immigration status);
- personal information, such as a credit card number or other payment information;
- information that may reveal age, gender or gender identity, race, sexual orientation, or other protected classifications, for example if an author voluntarily self-identifies their racial or gender identity for cataloging purposes;
- commercial information, such as purchase activity;
- internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information, such as content downloads, streams, and playback details; the content of email and text messages; or information used to prevent and detect fraud or other unauthorized activity, including informing customers if such activity were to affect them;
- geolocation data, such as the location of your device or computer, which may in some cases constitute precise geolocation information;
- professional information, for example data you may provide about your business if you are a Seller; and
- inference data, such as information about your purchase preferences.
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Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose. The personal information that Trainz may have disclosed for a business purpose to the third-parties identified in the "Does Trainz Share Your Personal Information?" section of Trainz’s Privacy Policy in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date above falls into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act and other state privacy laws, depending on which Trainz Service is used:
- identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, IP address, or government identifier, for example if we use a third-party carrier to deliver your order, or if we use a third-party service to verify your identity, certain types of ID you provide for identity verification, which may in some cases reflect your citizenship or immigration status;
- personal information, such as a credit card number or other payment information, for example if we use a third-party payment processor;
- information that may reveal age, gender or gender identity, race, sexual orientation, or other protected classifications, for example if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by Trainz or a third-party survey provider;
- commercial information, such as the details of a product or service you purchased if a third-party service provider assists in providing that product or service to you;
- internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather information relating to our prevention and detection of fraud or other unauthorized activity, which may require disclosing certain information about potentially affected customers to law enforcement;
- audio information, for example if a service provider reviews recordings of customer service phone calls for quality assurance purposes; and
- inference data, for example if we use a service provider to help us optimize the accuracy of your shipping address to make sure your order reaches you.
- Advertising. As explained in the What About Advertising? section in Trainz’s Privacy Policy, Trainz Services does not currently provide third-party advertising. Notwithstanding the above, any personal information Trainz may have shared for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising, as that term is defined by the California Privacy Rights Act, in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date above falls into the following categories:
- identifiers such as a cookie, a device identifier, or a code derived from applying irreversible cryptography to other information like an email address; we do not share your name or other information that directly identifies you with ad companies.
- internet or other electronic network activity information, such as whether you downloaded an app or other measures of ad effectiveness; for example, if you have already downloaded one of our apps, we will share an advertising identifier and data about that event so that you will not be served an ad to download the app again.
- inference data; while we do not share your specific shopping actions like purchases, product views, or searches with ad companies, we may share an advertising identifier and an estimate of the value of the ads they show you on our behalf so they can serve you with more effective Trainz ads.
- The categories of third-parties with whom Trainz may share personal information for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising are identified in the Does Trainz Share Your Personal Information and What About Advertising? sections of Trainz’s Privacy Policy. Trainz also processes personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising as that term is defined under certain state privacy laws.
- Children and Teens. As stated in Trainz’s Privacy Policy, Trainz does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under eighteen (18) (or age of majority if higher in your place of residence), you may use Trainz Services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without the consent of the child's parent or guardian. For more information, please see our Terms of Use.
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Your Data Rights: You may have certain data rights under state privacy laws, including to request information about the collection of your personal information by Trainz, to access your personal information in a portable format, and to correct or delete your personal information. Additionally, you may have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising (also referred to as targeted advertising under certain state privacy laws). If you wish to do any of these things, please contact our Legal Department by mail at 2740 Faith Industrial Drive NE, Buford, Georgia 30519, ATTN: Legal Department, or by email (legal@trainz.com). You can also enable the Global Privacy Control (GPC) on your browser to opt out of cross-context behavioral ads.
You may have the right to appeal the denial of any of these rights by submitting a form that will be provided to you if we deny a data request. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable. To ensure the security of your Trainz Services account, we will generally ask you to verify your request using the contact information you have already provided. - No sale of personal information. In the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, Trainz has not sold any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Privacy Rights Act.
- De-identified Data Disclosure. Trainz may use de-identified data in some instances. Trainz either maintains such data without attempting to re-identify it or treats such data as personal data subject to applicable law.
- California Privacy Rights Act Sensitive Personal Information Disclosure. The categories of data that Trainz collects and discloses for a business purpose include "sensitive personal information" as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act. Trainz does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose not expressly permitted by the California Privacy Rights Act.
- California Privacy Rights Act Retention Disclosure. To enable your continued use of Trainz Services, we keep your personal information for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in Trainz’s Privacy Policy, as permitted or as may be required by law, or as otherwise communicated to you. For example, we retain your transaction history so that you can review past purchases (and repeat orders if desired) and what addresses you have shipped orders to, and to improve the relevance of products and content we recommend.
- California Privacy Rights Act Non-discrimination Statement. Trainz will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.
- Colorado Privacy Act and Oregon Consumer Privacy Act Profiling Disclosure. Trainz does not engage in profiling of consumers in furtherance of automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, as those terms are defined under the Colorado Privacy Act or the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act.
- Oregon Consumer Privacy Act Controller Entity Disclosure. The controller entities that are subject to Trainz’s Privacy Policy and this Disclosure include Trainz.com, Inc., Dwarvin Lighting Systems by Trainz, and Trainz Academy, LLC.