Nothing in these policies should be too surprising; it's mostly common sense, common Internet practices, and clarifications. If you have a question or concern not addressed here, just ask.

Who: Anyone can submit an image. Please do! The Gallery isn't interesting if we don't get new pictures in it.

What: Please include the bird's species, age, sex, and name and the name of the person(s), if any, in the photo.

Format: Any electronic format is fine. GIF, JPG, TIF, PNG; doesn't matter. We can generally handle it. If we simply cannot work with the photo you submit, we will let you know. All submissions must be electronic format.

Size: Any size is fine; however, images will be cropped, resized and otherwise edited as necessary to enable reasonable download speed (~10 seconds or less per image over 56k).

Image Location: This is important...If you want your birds face to be depicted in the thumbnail image, you must have the face of the bird centered in the photo you submit. If you want just the body depicted, then center your photo on the body. The way thumbnails are generated, the thumbnail centers on the center of the photo. Rendering photos for you to depict what you want depicted is time consuming. The more time it takes us to "retouch" your photo, the more time it will take to get it posted.

Photo Credit: This is the name of the person who took the photo. In the cases where the photographer is a professional, this does not imply a NAFA endorsement. If you wish to maintain your privacy, your name need not be posted; please say so in your submission email.

Things that cannot and will not be posted:

• Images that include blood or quarry/game, regardless of artistic quality.  Please make sure that beaks and talons are tidy. (True, we are a hunting organization, but let's also remember that the public, who may not be educated regarding falconry and falconry ethics about quarry, often visits this website.)

• Images other than photos: sketches, paintings, etc.

• Images not containing raptors: for example, a picture of just dogs.

• Images of raptors not used in falconry. Not all species are used in all countries.

• "Silly" or "cute" images. Raptors definitely have personalities and sometimes do amusing things, but such images can also be misconstrued. Remember this is a public site and non-falconers often visit, especially the photo galleries.

Permission:

• Submitting an image of your bird and/or yourself and/or your immediate family implicitly gives NAFA permission to post it in the appropriate gallery.

• If you submit an image containing other people or their birds, your submission email must include explicit permission, which can be as simple as "Bob Falconer said it was ok for me to send you this picture I took of his bird, Rex."

• If you wish to maintain your privacy, your name need not be posted. Please say so in your submission email.

• If you or your bird appear in an image that someone else has submitted, you can request that the image be removed.

• You can request that an image you submitted be removed at any time. Expect a reasonably prompt response time.

• Images submitted to the Gallery will not be used by NAFA for any other purpose without explicit permission.

Order: Images appear in the Gallery in no particular order. Sending the same picture again will not "bump" it to the front.

Disclaimers: It is implied and assumed that any submitted image of a falconry raptor is being held legally according to the rule and law of the country where it is held and NAFA disclaims all responsibility for the content of any image. Image content is strictly the intellectual property of the submitter and/or subject of the image and all images are posted by implied permission when the photo or video is submitted. NAFA cannot ensure that images will not be printed or otherwise copied out of the Gallery, therefore please do not submit copyrighted images. All submitted pictures are considered subjectively for posting; submission does not guarantee display. Posted pictures may be cropped, sharpened, or otherwise altered for bandwidth and electronic appearance or are otherwise posted at the sole discretion of the NAFA Webmaster or web design team.