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Privacy Notice | Realtime Tickets

Privacy Notice

This privacy notice was last reviewed on 16 April 2025.

This privacy notice applies between you, the User of this Website and RTT Transport Retail Ltd, the owner and provider of this Website. RTT Transport Retail Ltd takes the privacy of your information very seriously. This privacy notice applies to our use of any and all Data collected by us or provided by you in relation to your use of the Website.

This privacy notice should be read alongside, and in addition to, our Terms and Conditions.

RTT Transport Retail Ltd (us), a company registered in England no. 16268369 with registered office c/o Newton Magnus, Unit 1 Arrowsmith Court, 10 Station Approach, Broadstone, Dorset, BH18 8AT, is the legal entity processing data on this site. We work closely with:

  • Swlines Ltd, a company registered in England no. 08025561 with registered office 9 Wordsworth Avenue, Bournemouth, BH8 9NT
  • Raileasy Ltd (TrainSplit), a company registered in England no. 03067728 with registered office 10 Station Parade, High Street Wanstead, London, England, E11 1QF

Please read this privacy notice carefully.

Where your data is held

Your personal data is held by a UK-based company and comes under UK GDPR and ICO guidelines. Your personal data is held by us on systems contained within the UK. We may pass your data through backups in an encrypted form to cloud storage providers with global locations but will only use locations within the UK and EEA. When held in backups, your encrypted data can only be decrypted by us within the UK.

Our partner organisations whom we pass data through to process data are also principally based in the UK but may also pass data through to cloud providers and hold your data within the UK/EEA.

Data security measures

We have a number of physical and digital protections in place to keep your data safe. We host our systems in data centres in the UK which have a number of physical layers of protection in place. We regularly review our procedures and policies in this area and carry out periodic reviews of third parties that process user data.

Right to forget

At any time, you can ask us to remove or anonymise (as appropriate) any personal identifying information where legally possible that we hold within our systems - please contact us if you'd like to do this. We will aim to do this in a timely manner.

Data Controller

The Data Controller for RTT Transport Retail Ltd is Tom Cairns, who can be contacted through dpo@realtimetrains.co.uk.

We take data security seriously and if you think there's been any breach for any reason, please contact our Data Controller using the details above in the first instance. If we're unable to resolve your concerns to your satisfaction, you have the right to make a complaint to ICO.

You have the right to a copy of any and all personally identifiable data held by us through a Subject Access Request (SAR), if you would like to do this please contact

Data collected

In order to fulfil your bookings, we may need to collect the following Personally Indentifiable Information (PII) from you:

Data Type? Why we need it? Who handles this?
Full name, physical address, telephone number
  • Assist with payment processing
  • Fulfilling e-Ticket and Ticket on Departure issued tickets
  • Assisting with support requests
  • Us
  • Raileasy Ltd
  • Third-party fulfilment providers
  • Third-party support providers
  • Third-party payment provider
Email address
  • User account management (not yet available)
  • To send service emails, such as booking confirmations, e-tickets and disruption emails
  • Assisting with support requests
  • Us
  • Raileasy Ltd
  • Third-party support providers
Payment card information
  • For processing payments
  • Third-party payment provider
We do not handle or hold card details ourselves, in accordance with PCI-DSS guidelines, and have no access to these details.
Technical information related to your visit such as IP address, browser version and device information
  • Stopping automated bot traffic
  • Identifying and fixing technical issues
  • Statistical analysis
  • Us
  • Our analytics provider

Changes to this privacy notice

We reserve the right to change this privacy notice as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy notice on your first use of the Website following the alterations.

The following updates were made:

  • 16 April 2025: to adjust Ferries Trains Planes Ltd to Raileasy Ltd following a company name change