This is the official Web site of National History Day.

Our postal address is:
0119 Cecil Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

We can be reached via e-mail at info@nhd.org. Our telephone number is (301) 314-9739.

We respect the privacy of both children and their parents and do not collect any more personal information than reasonably necessary to enable them to participate in the activities of National History Day, for which we offer online registration and contest results via our Web site.
With respect to our online information collection practices regarding children (and, specifically for the purposes of COPPA compliance, children under 13 years of age), NHD collects the following types of personal information directly from children registering online in order to participate in our program:

• first and last name
• home or physical address including street name and name of a town
• telephone number
• e-mail address
• last four digits of social security number
• username, password, registrant type identification number and contest identification number (which are held in a cookie on the registrant's computer)
• information about a child's parents or siblings

Please note that parents may consent to the above collection and use without necessarily consenting to the disclosure of personal information to third parties. We do not allow outside organizations to use personal information collected at our site, except as noted herein.

The information we collect from children is used:

• for fulfillment of a requested transaction
• for record keeping related to the conduct of the NHD events
• to respond to children's specific requests to participate in activities such as:
• registration for History Day contest(s)
• participation in a student forum/bulletin board

With respect to sharing information, no other party has access to a child's personal information beyond those who may be entering the registration information (e.g., parents, teachers, counselors, etc.); organizations that provide scholarships and special awards; and those who provide technical support for the internal operations of the NHD Web site. All third parties with whom NHD shares information have agreed to maintain the security and integrity of such personal information.

We do share general information about NHD contest winners, including student name, school, teacher name, entry title, division, and category, with news media in the form of a press release announcing winners. During online registration, we do ask for permission to release the student's image and/or voice for the purpose of announcing the contest results to the media and/or for use in educational materials and media produced by NHD. We do not share student contact information with local media or sponsors without contacting parents first to obtain permission to do so.

Parents can review the information that we have collected from their children online, prevent the further use or maintenance of such information, or request the deletion of their children's personal information by:

• calling us at the telephone number provided above
• e-mailing us at the above address
• writing to us at the above address
• contacting us via the appropriate 'contact' links on our website at http://nhd.org