Privacy Policy
The short version: one advertising tool, the Meta Pixel, for our Facebook and Instagram ads, which your browser can switch off; nothing else on the site tracks you. This page describes exactly what the site does, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Who Is Responsible
This site belongs to NARBC, the North American Reptile Breeders Conference & Trade Shows, operated by Chicago Reptile House and ECO Publishing, who are responsible for anything you send through it. When this policy says "we", that's who it means.
What We Do Not Do
There is no Google Analytics, no Google Tag Manager and no session recording on this site, and apart from the Meta Pixel described below it loads no advertising or social tracking script.
We do not sell or rent personal information, and nothing you send through the forms is ever passed to advertisers. The Meta Pixel does tell Meta about your visits to these pages, which some state privacy laws count as "sharing" for advertising, so the next two sections say exactly what it sends and how to stop it.
The Meta Pixel
NARBC advertises its shows on Facebook and Instagram. To see whether those ads bring people to the site, and to show our ads to people who have already visited it, each page loads Meta's pixel script from connect.facebook.net. As a page opens it tells Meta that the page was viewed, along with its address, the site that linked you here, your browser and device type, your IP address and the _fbp ID described below. If you are logged in to Facebook or Instagram in the same browser, Meta can connect the visit to your account. What Meta does with it is covered by Meta's privacy policy; we get ad reports and audience sizes, never a list of who visited.
The pixel also sends a copy of each of those events to Meta's Conversions API Gateway, a relay server set up through NARBC's Meta advertising account whose only job is to pass the same events on to Meta, so fewer are lost to dropped requests. It receives the same details listed above.
To switch it off, choose Decline in the cookie notice at the bottom of the page. The pixel stops at once, its cookies are deleted, and it is never loaded again in that browser. Changed your mind? , or use "Cookie choices" at the foot of any page. You can also turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser (it is built into Firefox, Brave and DuckDuckGo, and available as an extension for others): when your browser sends it, this site never loads Meta's script at all and doesn't ask. Blocking or clearing this site's cookies, a content blocker, or "Ad preferences" in your Meta Accounts Center work too. The rest of the site works exactly the same either way.
What Is Stored on Your Device
Two things, and only these. The Meta Pixel sets a cookie called _fbp, holding a random ID that lets Meta recognise a return visit for up to 90 days, and, if you arrived by clicking one of our ads, a cookie called _fbc recording that click. Both sit under narbc.com but only Meta's script reads them. Our own pages save just your answer to the cookie notice, in your browser's local storage, so it doesn't ask on every page; it holds the word "accept" or "decline" and nothing about you. With Global Privacy Control on, the Meta cookies are never set; after you decline, they are deleted and not set again.
Counting Visits
To see how many people use the site and which pages help them, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, from the same company that hosts the site. It counts page views and notes the page, the site that linked you here, your country, and your browser and device type. It sets no cookies, writes nothing to your browser and does not fingerprint you or follow you to other sites. We only ever see the totals, never who any one visitor is.
When You Send Us Something
The contact form and the "notify me" boxes are the only places this site accepts information. The contact form asks for your name, email address, what your message is about, and the message itself. A notify-me box asks only for your email address and remembers which announcement you asked about, so the right news reaches you and nothing else. It is a one-time alert: the address gets that announcement and is never added to a mailing list.
What you submit lands in a private spreadsheet in NARBC's own Google account and is emailed to the show team so they can reply, which means Google processes it for us as our provider, the same way it would an email you sent us. It is not sold, rented or passed to advertisers. Each form also carries a hidden decoy field that people never see; if automated spam fills it, the submission is discarded before it is ever sent. If you would rather not use a form,(708) 932-8044 reaches the same people.
How Long We Keep It
Contact messages are deleted two years after they've been dealt with. A notify-me address is deleted once the announcement it asked for has been sent. Either goes sooner if you ask.
Your Choices
Ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, and we will, whoever and wherever you are; we don't make you cite a statute first. If your state's privacy law gives you specific rights, the same request handles those too. A notify-me address can be taken off the list the same way. Email contact@narbc.com, or call the number above.
Links That Leave This Site
Vendor listings, ticket links, sponsor logos, and the media page point to sites we do not run: vendors' own shops, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, MorphMarket, Google Maps and our ticketing provider. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else's site under their privacy policy, not this one. Ticket purchases happen entirely on the ticketing provider's system (TicketSpice, and RegFox for vendor booths, both run by Webconnex); no payment details are ever entered on, or seen by, this site.
Hosting
The site is served as static files by Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the network requests needed to deliver a page, which means an IP address and browser user-agent, for security and delivery. We do not add our own logging on top of that, and we do not build profiles from it.
Children
NARBC shows are family events and children are very welcome at them, but this website is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them. The forms ask only for an email address and a message; if a child has sent us theirs, a parent can use "Your Choices" above and we'll delete it.
Changes
If what the site does changes, this page changes first and the date below moves. A meaningful change gets a note here, not a silent edit.
Effective 19 October 2026