Who We Are

Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society, Inc. (MCRHS), also known as Mid-Continent Railway Museum (MCRM) is a non-profit educational corporation located in North Freedom, Wisconsin, USA.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Ticket Reservation Data

When placing reservations through our website or by phone, it is necessary to provide personal and payment information to complete the transaction. To maintain a high-level of security of your payment information, MCRHS uses a third-party ticketing service service called FareHarbor. View TicketBiscuit’s Privacy Policy.

Reservation names and addresses are stored indefinitely for the purpose of making future reservations easier to complete and for MCRHS to be able to complete analyses of customer locations and trends over time. Non personally identifiable demographic information generated by this data may be made available to industry trade groups and other organizations.

Online Gift Shop Data

When ordering items from our online gift shop it is necessary to provide personal information to complete payment and allow for item delivery. To maintain a high-level of security of your payment information, MCRHS uses a third-party payment platform called Square. View Square’s Privacy Policy.

Donation Form Data

When making a donation it is necessary to provide personal information to complete payment and allow for an donation acknowledgement letter to be provided. To maintain a high-level of security of your payment information, MCRHS uses the PayPal payment system. View PayPal’s Privacy Policy.

Contact Forms

If you opt-in to our email list, you are agreeing to receive periodic emails notifying you of Mid-Continent Railway Museum news, special events, and promotions. You can opt-out of emails at any time using the unsubscribe button in each email. We do not sell or distribute our lists with any other organizations. Our email list is powered by MailChimp and conforms to their terms and conditions.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Some content on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

By using this website, users agree to the use of cookies. Information collected includes location (down to city level), type of device, browser, time spent on pages, number of repeat visits, etc. This non-personally identifiable information is used to help Mid-Continent know where our website visitors come from and what content they find engaging. MCRHS uses Google Analytics for this service so the information is also available to Google. Users can cease the collection of this information by disabling cookies for this website in your browser settings.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site you can request the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.