Data privacy, processing of personal data and cookie policy
Data privacy notice
Your data privacy is important to The Train Brain, and we are committed to protect your privacy. We are processing your personal data in order to provide you services. We may also use your personal data to communicate with you. We only collect personal data that is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed. We process personal data only for purposes that have been determined beforehand.
The Train Brain processes your personal data in accordance with the applicable data privacy laws and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We may also outsource the processing of personal data to a third party, the data processor, in which case we will ensure through contractual measures that your personal data is processed in accordance with the applicable data privacy laws and the GDPR.
If we transfer your personal data outside the EU or EEA, we will ensure the adequate level of protection of your personal data among others by agreeing on matters related to the confidentiality and processing of your personal data in accordance with the applicable data privacy laws and the GDPR. We will store your personal information only for as long as is necessary in order to carry out the purposes of processing of the personal data or as separately defined in accordance with the applicable laws.
Your rights
If we process personal information about you, you have the following rights:
Access and correction: you have the right to access to that data. This is sometimes called a ‘Subject Access Request’. If we agree that we are obliged to provide personal information to you, we will provide it to you free of charge. Before providing personal information to you, we may ask for proof of identity and sufficient information about your interactions with us that we can locate your personal information. If the information we hold about you is incorrect, you are entitled to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in the personal information.
Object to processing: you have the right to object to us processing your personal information if we are not entitled to use it any more.
Other Rights: in addition, you may have rights to have your information deleted if we are keeping it too long, have its processing restricted in certain circumstances and/or to obtain copies of information we hold about you in electronic form.
You can make a request or exercise these rights by contacting The Train Brain at info@thetrainbrain.com and we will make all reasonable and practical efforts to comply with your request, so long as it is consistent with applicable law and professional standards.
Cookie policy
A cookie is a text file that is stored on your computer, smart phone or tablet for example to present custom web pages to visitors or to collect statistics. Cookies enhance your user experience and the value of your visit on the The Train Brain Site. The information we collect through the use of the analytics services and cookies are statistics relating to your surfing at the The Train Brain Site at IP address level.
Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you can choose whether or not to accept cookies via your browser's settings (often found in your browser's Tools or Preferences menu). If you wish, you can remove all cookies from your browser settings after your visit, and you can also disable the use of cookies. You may also delete cookies from your device at any time.
Further information about managing cookies can be found in your browser's help file or through sites such as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Below is a list of the types of cookies used on our web sites:
Performance (i.e., User's Browser)
Our web sites are built using common internet platforms. These have built-in cookies which help compatibility issues (e.g., to identify your browser type) and improve performance (e.g., quicker loading of content). Session: Deleted upon closing the browser.
Analytical
We use third party analytics tools to help us understand how site visitors use our web site. This allows us to improve the quality and content for our visitors and may also be used to provide targeted communication, marketing and content creation. The aggregated statistical data cover items such as total visits or page views, and referrers to our web sites. Expiry: Persistent, but will be deleted automatically after two years if you no longer visit our web site.
The Train Brain uses analytics services from Google Analytics. The Train Brain uses the information collected for developing the The Train Brain Site and to follow the user traffic of the The Train Brain Site. Google Analytics can be disabled with this add on tool https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note that this opt out is specific for each browser and device.
More information about how Google Analytics is used by The Train Brain can be found here: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
To provide website visitors with more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not prevent information from being sent to the website itself or to other web analytics services.
Social sharing
We use third party social media widgets or buttons to provide you with additional functionality to share content from our web pages to social media websites and email. Use of these widgets or buttons may place a cookie on your device to make their service easier to use, ensure your interaction is displayed webpages (e.g. the social share count cache is updated) and log information about your activities across the Internet and on our web sites. We encourage you to review each provider's privacy information before using any such service.