Welcome to NRA InSights online, where NRA’s Junior audience can learn more about the outdoors, find a shooting competition or shooting sports camp, or just share a favorite photo. Your privacy is very important to the NRA, and we are committed to complying fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. We fully disclose our policy about the collection, maintenance, use, disclosure, and security of personal information obtained from users of our online activities. Our information collection practices are described below. We recommend that children check with their parents before entering information on any website and we urge parents to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don’t know.
Information Collection Practices
When you sign up for updates, newsletters, or other information published by NRA, we may ask for information that allows us to contact you.
If you submit photos or comments to us that we post on NRA InSights online, you will be identified on our site only by first name, first initial of the last name, age, city and state. We will only use your email address if we need to write back to you, or if you have requested more information from the NRA, but we will never share your information with anyone.
This site does not sponsor a live chat room where users can meet adults, and we do not post contact information when children send us photos or stories about themselves.
This site does feature a discussion forum accessible to our registered users. Users should be aware that any posts and conversations in this forum becomes public information. Users should NOT disclose any personally identifiable information. Your username is the only identity you should have, and that is how people should know you on the Internet. NRA InSights’ discussion forum is monitored and no messages will be posted without approval. Anyone who tries to ask for personal information but who has not been confirmed as a user’s parent/guardian will be prohibited from access to the discussion forum.
For users aged 13 years and older who have registered to use the Discussion Forum, the NRA sends the user’s parent/guardian an email notifying them that their child has registered at NRA InSights and provided the NRA with personally identifiably information. For users under 13 years of age, the NRA sends the user’s parent/guardian an email notification and obtains permission from his or her parent/guardian before the user can be fully registered. After receiving this notification email, the child's parent/guardian has the opportunity to review any identifiable information collected about their child, have this information deleted, and/or request that there be no further collection or use of their child’s information (See below, Notice to Parents).
Electronic “Send to a Friend” Messages
NRA InSights online provides children the opportunity to forward news updates, event information, and other online content to family or friends. We do not require children to submit personally identifiable information about themselves in order to send this online content. We do, however, ask children to submit the email address of the recipient of such news updates, event notifications, or other online content.
NRA InSights also provides users the opportunity to send e-mail to us. We request no personally identifiable information except an e-mail address, which we use solely for the purpose of responding to messages and/or requests.
All information collected for forwarded news updates, event notifications, and other online content is used only to send the email message and to respond to email questions and/or requests and is deleted from our system once the forwarded content, email message or email response is sent.
Third Party Use
NRA does not sell, rent, or loan our member or subscriber lists to third parties for any purpose.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites
This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on the NRA InSights website. This website contains links that may direct you back to the main NRA website, and may offer links to other websites, including to some non-profit and educational sites, as well as to commercial products, including advertisers. Since we do not control third-party websites and advertisers may have different privacy policies, we encourage you to review each site’s individual privacy policies and information collection practices.
Choice And Consent
We respect the purpose for which our site visitors give us information. We give users choice and consent over how their personal information is used, and remove names immediately upon request. Users may communicate with us by using the contact information available at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Access & Unsubscribe
NRA allows you to edit personal information you have already given us and/or to unsubscribe to any e-mail lists you have previously signed up for on our site. Users may communicate with us by using the contact information available at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Security
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, the NRA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transit to the NRA, and you understand that any information that you transfer to the NRA is done at your own risk.
The NRA has taken strong measures to protect the security of your personal information once you have transmitted that information to the NRA and to ensure that your choices for its intended use are honored. We take strong precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Cookies
“Cookies” are small files downloaded to your hard drive that enable your browser to save and recall information. NRA uses cookies in a responsible manner to help our visitors quickly and easily navigate our site. We do not collect or use this information from cookies to develop a profile about our members and other site visitors. Members and visitors may, of course, disable cookies on their computers by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in their browsers.
Notice To Parents
Your child's privacy is important to the NRA, and we are committed to safeguarding children's personal information collected online, and to helping parents and their children learn how to exercise control over personal information while exploring the Internet. Therefore, we have taken additional measures to tailor our content and offerings at those sites and portions of our sites directed to children to help them protect their privacy while online. We do not ask children to disclose more personal information than is necessary for them to participate in an activity.
Visitors to the portions of our sites directed at children may participate in many of our offerings and activities without providing any personally identifiable information. To participate in certain of our interactive features, however, we may ask the user to provide us with the following types of information: first name, first initial of the last name, the visitor's e-mail address, parent's e-mail address, and age information.
We use this information only for our internal purposes to allow children to post photographs on the Community/Snapshots portion of the NRA InSights website, to post a question or comment on the Community/Forum portion of the site, to subscribe to news updates, or for the NRA to respond to an e-mail message they have sent to us. We use parents’ email addresses to obtain consent for their children’s participation in our activities when necessary. We do not share children's personally identifiable information with outside third parties not bound by this Privacy Policy. Parents, if you would like to do any of the following, please contact NRA InSights to:
• access the personally identifiable information that this site has collected from your child,
• correct factual errors in such information,
• request to have this information deleted, or
• request that we no longer collect or maintain such information.
To protect your child's privacy and security online, we will take appropriate steps to help verify your identity before granting you access to the personal information that we collect and maintain about your child.
We want to help you guard your children’s privacy. We encourage you to talk to your children about safe and responsible use of their personal information while using the Internet.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Policy may be changed by NRA InSights. The revised Policy will be posted to this page so that you are aware of the information NRA InSights collects and how we use that information.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about InSights’ Privacy Policy or its implementation, please contact us via email at insights@nrahq.org, or write to us at the following address:
NRA InSights Online
Attention: InSights Online Privacy Policy
11250 Waples Mill Rd.
Fairfax, VA 22030
This Privacy Policy was revised 9/17/08.