Section 501(c)(3) Status

The Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc. has been granted 501 (c)(3) nonprofit status by the Internal Revenue Service. Donations to the Society are tax-exempt.

If you would like a copy of the IRS determination letter in connection with a planned donation, please contact us.

WHAT IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION?

To be tax-exempt as an organization described in IRC Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, an organization must be organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary purposes, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, and none of the earnings of the organization may inure to any private shareholder or individual.

In addition, to maintain tax-exempt status, an organization may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate at all in campaign activity for or against political candidates.

To read more about Section 501(c)(3), please visit the Internal Revenue Service website.

Trademarks & Tradenames

The following trademarks and tradenames are the property of the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc.:

• Riverside & Great Northern Railway
• Riverside & Great Northern
• R&GN

The following logos and variants thereof, used individually or in combination, are the property of the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc.:

Copyright

The content of this website, and all materials used on this website with the exception of photographs owned by individual members of the Society or third parties, are the property of the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc., are copyrighted by the Society, and may not be copied, reproduced or used, except as permitted under "fair use" doctrines of United States copyright law, without permission from the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc.

Photographs and Videos

Photographs and videos used on this website are the property of the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc., or are the property of individual members of the Society or third parties who have given the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc. permission to use the photographs or videos on this website, as the case may be.

The photographs or videos may not be copied, reproduced or used without permission of the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc. or the owners of the photographs or videos, as applicable.

The Society thanks all whose photographs and videos are used on this website, among them Dan Akins, Reverend Tim Dodd, Ted Hagen, Tom Lines, Dick Rosenthal, Karen Taylor and Phil Zagone.

Privacy Policy

WHAT WE COLLECT AND STORE AUTOMATICALLY

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

• the Internet domain (for example, "your_internet_provider.com") and IP address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your internet provider whenever you surf the Internet) from which you access our web site;
• the location of your Internet domain;
• the type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• the date and time you access our site;
• the pages you visit on our site; and
• if you linked to our web site from another web site, the address of that web site.

Please note that this information does not collect your name or identify you personally in any way.

We use the information we collect automatically to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

We make no attempt to link the information we collect automatically with the individuals that actually visit our web site.

IF YOU SEND US E-MAIL

If you send us an e-mail, the e-mail is sent to the individual in your e-mail. We do not collect or store any information contained in the e-mail on our web site server.

The recipient of the e-mail will know your e-mail address, your name if your e-mail provider appends your name to the e-mail, and any other personal information you choose to provide in your e-mail. We will use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request, and for no other purpose.

IF YOU FILL OUT A FORM ON OUR WEB SITE

If you fill out an online form on our web site, the information contained in the form is e-mailed to the individual identified on the form. We do not collect or store any information contained in the e-mail on our web site server.

The recipient of the e-mail will know your e-mail address and any other personal information you choose to provide in the form. We will use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request, and for no other purpose.

IF YOU JOIN OUR MAIL LIST

If you join our e-mail list, we may send you e-mail about action alerts, news about the Dells of the Wisconsin River, upcoming events and other information in furtherance of our mission.

Our e-mail lists are stored offline. We do not store our e-mail lists on our web site server.

We do not share our e-mail list with outside organizations or individuals.

CONTROLLING THE ASSAULT OF NON-SOLICITED PORNOGRAPHY AND MARKETING ACT OF 2003

We comply with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003.

To this end, e-mails we send to our e-mail list:

• offer members of our e-mail list a clear means of opting-out from the receipt of future messages;
• include our mailing address (ADDRESS) within the body of the e-mail;
• do not use false or misleading header information;
• do not attempt to deceive e-mail recipients by using deceptive subject lines;

and, we do not:

• use automated means to harvest e-mail addresses from web sites or web services;
• generate e-mail addresses using programmatic methods; or
• share our e-mail list with outside organizations or individuals.

CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998

We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.

We do not knowingly collect identifiable personal information from children under age 13.

If we discover that a person under the age of 13 has provided us with any personally identifiable information, we will delete that information from our systems.

We are unable to reply to information requests from children under the age of 13, if so identified. A parent or guardian must initiate any requests for information from children under the age of 13 on their behalf. We encourage parents to supervise children when they browse the Internet.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our web site has links to external web sites that we believe may be of interest to you. When you click on a link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.