Last updated: 4 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how TrainsNews (trainsnews.com) collects, uses and protects information when you visit the website. TrainsNews is published from France and applies the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Data controller
The data controller is TrainsNews, an independent railway news website. You can reach us at any time through our contact page.
2. Information we collect
- Browsing data: IP address (anonymised where possible), browser type, device, pages visited, referring site and time of visit.
- Information you provide: your email address if you subscribe to the newsletter, and your name and message if you use the contact form or post a comment.
- Cookies and similar technologies: see section 4.
3. Why we use your data
- To operate the website, keep it secure and measure its audience (legitimate interest).
- To send the newsletter you requested (consent, which you can withdraw at any time via the unsubscribe link).
- To answer your messages (legitimate interest).
- To display advertising that finances free access to our content (consent where required).
4. Cookies
A cookie is a small file stored on your device. TrainsNews uses:
- Essential cookies needed for the site to work (session, language, security).
- Audience measurement cookies from Google Analytics, with IP anonymisation.
- Advertising cookies from Google AdSense, Ezoic and their partners, used to show ads and measure their performance, and, with your consent, to personalise them.
When you first visit the site, a consent banner lets you accept or refuse non-essential cookies. You can change your choice at any time from the consent settings link shown on the site or by deleting cookies in your browser.
5. Advertising: Google AdSense
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies at www.aboutads.info and www.youronlinechoices.eu. More information: How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
6. Advertising: Ezoic
This website uses Ezoic to manage and optimise advertising. Ezoic and its partners may collect and process data as described below.
7. Audience measurement: Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site. Data is collected with IP anonymisation and is only used for statistics. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
8. Sharing and transfers
We do not sell your personal data. Data may be processed by our technical providers (hosting, newsletter, analytics and advertising partners listed above), some of which may be located outside the European Union. Such transfers rely on the safeguards provided by the GDPR, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or adequacy decisions.
9. Retention
Newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe. Contact messages are kept for up to 3 years. Cookies are kept for a maximum of 13 months, and consent choices for 6 months.
10. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object to the processing of your data, the right to data portability and the right to withdraw consent at any time. To exercise these rights, contact us through the contact page. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL, www.cnil.fr).
11. Children
TrainsNews is not directed at children under 16 and does not knowingly collect their data.
12. Changes
We may update this policy. The date at the top of the page shows the latest version.
