Privacy Statement
The National Association of Rocketry has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.nar.org.
General Visitors
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information. However, we do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that visitors' accesses will be tracked, but the visitors themselves remain anonymous.
You are not required to provide any identifying information in order to visit and enjoy the information residing on our site.
Members
If you choose to join the Association or to charter an NAR Section by filling out one of our application forms, you will be required to give us contact information (like your name and email address), unique identifiers (your NAR membership number, if you have one), financial information (a credit card number), and demographic information (like your zip code and age).
We use the member contact and demographic information from these application forms to send you your issues of Sport Rocketry magazine and other membership benefits and communications. The contact information you supply on our application forms is also used to contact you when necessary (for example, to renew your membership).
The financial information that you provide is used to bill you for products and services you order on the application forms.
A unique identifier (NAR number or Section number) is issued to you or (if renewing) specified by you and represents your unique number in our record system.
NAR membership records are not shared with other organizations or corporations or passed on to other mailing lists. Names and addresses of members may, from time to time, be made available to manufacturers of sport rocketry equipment or other technically-oriented suppliers on a single-use basis only, for the purpose of specific promotional mailings. Members are given the option to be excluded from such mailings by checking the appropriate box on our application form. Members may change this choice at any future time by following the "Choice/Opt-Out" procedure below.
Members may opt-out of receiving future mailings from the Association itself by terminating their memberships; see the "Choice/Opt-Out" procedure below.
Online Forms
Our online surveys (such as our Malfunctioning Engine Statistical Survey) ask visitors for contact information (like their email address). This contact information is used only to identify and to contact the submitter when necessary. No mailing lists are assembled from this information, with the exception of forms or surveys which clearly state that the information provided will be used for the purposes of creating a mailing list.
Online Shopping and "Cookies"
We make use of a commercial "shopping cart" software package for our online shopping offerings such as NARTS. This package makes use of browser "cookies" as a way of remembering the contents of your "shopping cart" while you are actively using the ordering software. This software and the cookies it sets are not under our control, and, outside the shopping-cart software itself, these cookies are not examined or used elsewhere on our site, nor are their contents available to any other site.
Otherwise, our website does not set, read, maintain, or in any way use browser "cookies."
Site Specificity
This site contains links to other sites, including sites belonging to chartered Sections of the NAR. These sites are not under the control of or administered by the Association. The National Association of Rocketry is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other Web sites.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Children's Guidelines
This Web site meets the guidelines of TRUSTe's Children's program.
- Because we do not accept online applications not accompanied by
valid credit card information, any online contact information provided
by children without prior parental consent is not used or
maintained. This provides an opportunity for the parent to prevent
use of the information and participate in the activity. Without prior
parental consent, online information will only be used to respond
directly to the child's request and will not be used for other
purposes without prior parental consent.
- For the same reason, we do not collect personally
identifiable offline contact information from children without prior
parental consent.
- We do not distribute to third parties any personally
identifiable information about children without prior parental
consent.
- Because we do not provide "bulletin boards," "guestbooks," or
"chat rooms," we do not allow children the ability to publicly
post personally identifiable contact information without prior
parental consent.
- We do not entice youngsters, by the prospect of a special
game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is
needed to participate in the activity.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our application form allows members the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from third-party promotional mailings at the time of application.
This site gives visitors the options of removing their information from our records so as not to receive future communications or services; and of correcting, changing, and modifying information previously provided. To do so:
- You can send email to nar-hq@nar.org
- You can send mail to the following postal address:
National Association of Rocketry, PO Box 127, Altoona WI 54720 - You can call the following telephone number: (800) 262-4872
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
Webmaster
National Association of Rocketry