Privacy Policy
Effective: 2026-10-09
Information and Contact
RailIncident is an independent website based in California, United States. Contact info@railincident.com for privacy questions or requests. Browsing does not require an account. Emails you send contain your address, message, and any attachments, which may be used to respond and investigate corrections.
Hosting and Map Services
Our hosting provider receives information necessary to deliver pages, such as IP addresses, requested URLs, timestamps, and browser information, and may retain operational or security logs. Map tiles are requested from OpenStreetMap infrastructure; those requests disclose your IP address and the requested map area to that service. See OpenStreetMap's privacy policy. Panning the map does not request your device's precise location. No separate visitor analytics service is included in this release.
Advertising
When advertising is enabled, Google AdSense and its partners may collect or use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and device identifiers to deliver, measure, secure, and personalize advertising as permitted by your choices and applicable requirements. Third parties may place and read cookies. See How Google Uses Information and Google advertising controls.
Privacy Choices
Where required, Google's certified consent message presents advertising choices. Use Privacy and Cookie Settings in the footer to revisit available choices. You can also disable Google advertising on this site using the browser preference below. This choice is stored locally in your browser and takes effect after reload. Clearing browser storage removes it. An enabled Global Privacy Control signal also suppresses Google advertising scripts on this site. This does not stop requests needed to deliver the site or map tiles. Legacy Do Not Track signals do not separately change behavior.
Retention and Security
We seek to retain personal information only for operational, correspondence, security, and legal needs. Provider retention practices may differ. Search abuse controls store request counters whose rate-limit effect expires as the bucket refills in bounded hash buckets rather than raw IP addresses. We use access controls and keep internal data outside the public web root; no security measure guarantees complete protection.
Requests and Applicable Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain information about personal data and opt out of certain uses. Contact us to submit a request. We may need to verify identity for requests involving personal records, and legal exceptions may apply. You need not create an account to contact us. We do not require identity verification for the browser advertising opt-out. We do not knowingly use this site to collect personal information from children under 13.
Policy Changes
Material changes will be described on this page with an updated effective date, with additional notice where required. This policy describes visitor information; limitations of the FRA data are explained in Data Terms.