Protecting your privacy is important to us. The following statement will help you understand how the NRA collects, uses, and protects the personal information you provide on our web site.

Information Collection - When you browse nrahq.com you do so anonymously. Personal information -- including your E-mail address -- is not collected. Your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) is logged to give us an idea of which parts of our web site you are visiting and how long you are spending there. We do not link your IP address to anything personally identifiable.

The NRA site utilizes a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how the site is used. Cookies were originally designed to help a web site distinguish a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie is a small string of text that a web site can send to your browser. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your E-mail address. Currently, web sites use cookies to enhance the user's visit; in general, cookies can securely store a user's ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of selections in a "shopping cart."