BNSF is firmly committed to protecting your privacy and data while visiting our Internet site and using our services. The statement below provides details on the information we collect, our use of that information and our data security practices. Information collected by BNSF is used only for internal business purposes. BNSF does not, nor do we plan to, sell any information collected through our website. Further, BNSF does not plan to divulge information to any party other than BNSF affiliates, service providers and other third parties we use to help run our business.
Personal Information
In general, you can visit BNSF on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our Web servers collect visitor domain names, not e-mail addresses or other personally identifying information. This information is compiled to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, and similar information. We use this information to measure the use of our site and to improve the user experience.
BNSF may also collect your location information, including your current latitude and longitude, when you access our website. We collect this information to personalize the content and functionality of the site and to help us understand how and where visitors are using our content and applications.
Additional information may be requested and collected to the extent you use our website, online tools, or otherwise interact with us as a part of your business relationship with BNSF. This information is necessary for BNSF to provide the services that you request and is used to respond to your inquiry, process your request, or validate authorization to grant access to specific account information. The amount of personal information you disclose to BNSF is at your discretion. The types of information we may collect is described below.
The types of information that we collect include, but are not limited to:
We collect your personal information for the following purposes:
We may share information collected with our affiliates, services providers, and other third parties we use to help run our business—such as vendors or website hosts.
Cookies
Some pages within www.bnsf.com use cookies so we can better serve you when you return to our site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it or not.
Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect on our website, online tools, or other methods as a part of your business relationship with BNSF.
Your Rights
You may have rights under certain privacy and data protection laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). BNSF is committed to protecting your data privacy and has provided the following information about your rights and how to exercise your rights:
Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You
Disclosure of Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business Purpose
Right to Deletion
Protection Against Discrimination
How to Contact Us
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Statement, please:
Please note that you may only make a data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.
Verifying Your Identity
If you choose to contact us directly by email or phone, you will need to provide us with:
We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person's behalf.
Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
Employee, Contractor and Applicant Privacy Issues
Employees, contractors and applicants are informed about our privacy and security practices through internal company notifications.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time as our business (including privacy and security practices) changes, or as required by law.
The effective date of this Privacy Statement is provided below, and we encourage you to visit our site periodically to stay informed about our privacy and security practices.
We will post the most current version of our Privacy Statement on our site and ask for your consent to the changes if legally required.
Third Party Links
We also link to a number of third-party external sites. The inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of the external site company, its website, or the products and services it promotes or sells. We are not responsible or liable for the independent privacy policies of these third-party sites. You should consult the privacy policies at these sites to determine how your information may be used.
Effective Date: December 20, 2019
Last Revised: December 20, 2019