At Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust Ltd (NIRT), we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) says that the information we provide to people about how we process their personal data must be:
- concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible;
- written in clear and plain language;
- free of charge.
Our privacy notice below explains how, when and why we collect personal information about who visits our website – including how we use it and how we keep it secure.
Who are we?
We are Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust Ltd.
Registered Company number 01190306. Charity number 268772.
How do we collect information from you?
When you use our website to contact us about items for sale, to book a driving experience or to email us, we collect information from you.
What type of information is collected from you?
Our website only collects information from you for the purpose of bookings and selling items to you via our sale page.
Note also that we use WordPress to create our website and link to other websites that may collect your data. Please review their privacy policies.
For sales items purchased via Ebay please review Ebay’s privacy policy which you can find here.
How is your information used?
We only process personal data for the purpose of bookings and selling items to you via our sale page.
Who has access to your information?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
Any information you provide to us for bookings, sales or queries via email will only be used to respond directly to you.
What about social media?
If you make comments or posts on social media (our Facebook page, for example), then the rules of that platform apply, so please be aware that your comments or reactions could be made public.
We don’t have any control over Facebook so please make sure you review their privacy policies as well as the terms and conditions of any other social media platforms you use. It’s important that you understand what they do with your information and it means you can adjust your privacy settings if you don’t want things shared or in the public domain.
Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law.
- in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
- in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
- to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.
Peace of mind about your choices
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by post, email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent.
How you can access and update your information
If you change email address, or any information we hold is inaccurate or out-of-date, please email us info@northantsironstonerailway.co.uk.
What we do to protect your personal information
When you give us personal information, we take great care to ensure that it’s treated securely to prevent unauthorised access.
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We take care to ensure any confidential information remains protected, but we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
Use of ‘cookies’
We do not directly use cookies on our website.
WordPress store personal information in their user profile.
View their privacy notice here.
You can switch off cookies by changing your browser preferences.
Be aware that this might affect functionality when using our website.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites run by other organisations.
This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
We are not responsible for the privacy notices and practices of other websites even if you access them using links from our website.
16 or under?
Welcome, young visitors!
We feel strongly about protecting the privacy of children aged 16 or under.
If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
Onsite CCTV monitoring
Sadly there are a few individuals who think it is acceptable to damage and steal things. We hold CCTV recordings for a short period purely for the purposes of crime prevention and identifying those criminals. Our system is secured by logins and the recordings only accessibly to those who need to.
Our CCTV system is also registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on their website here.
Review of this notice
This notice was created in January 2026.
We review our policies on a regular basis
We may update our privacy notice on our website.
You should check this page occasionally to review any changes.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy notice by email.