updated 1 day ago
Effective Date: August 18, 2026
Bad Moon Shooting ("Bad Moon Shooting," "we," "us," or "our") provides firearms training and Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) certification classes in Northern California. This page explains what personal information we collect from students, how we use it, and the terms of our text (SMS) messaging program. It applies to our website, our in-person enrollment process, and our class reminder text messages.
By registering for a class, providing your information at enrollment, or opting in to receive text messages from us, you agree to the practices described below.
To enroll in a class through our website, we require your email address, which is collected when you complete your online payment. Your payment card is processed directly by our payment processor, Stripe; Bad Moon Shooting's servers never receive or store your full card number.
We use your email address to send your training certificate, class updates, and the student data survey described below. If you walk in and register on the first day of class instead of registering online, we ask that you provide your email address at that time for the same reasons. If you do not provide an email address, we cannot email you a certificate, class updates, or the student data survey.
Some information is collected on paper at enrollment, or in the student data survey sent after you enroll, rather than through our website:
If your class is held on Beale Air Force Base and you are not affiliated with the military, you must provide your name, date of birth, the state that issued your ID or driver's license, and Social Security number so we can request a base pass on your behalf. This information is submitted to Beale's 9th Security Forces for that purpose only. If you don't provide it, we cannot obtain a base pass for you and you will not be able to attend the class; because that outcome results from information you didn't provide, no refund will be issued in that situation.
We use the information described above to:
If you provide a phone number, we may ask: "Do you consent to receiving a text message from Bad Moon Shooting reminding you of your upcoming class? Msg & data rates may apply."
Opting in or out of text reminders does not affect our cancellation policy — if you need to cancel a class, please do so with enough notice, or your deposit may be forfeited regardless of how you were reminded.
If you complete a CCW class with us, we will send you a one-time reminder email roughly two years later (three years for classes completed on or after January 1, 2027) letting you know your permit is coming up for renewal, along with information about upcoming classes. This is currently the only marketing email we send. We do not share, rent, or sell your email address to anyone else.
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We share limited information with the following, solely to provide our services:
Name, county of residence, and firearm data are retained for as long as necessary to serve the purposes they were collected for, primarily so you can request a replacement training certificate. You can ask us to delete this information at any time (see "Your Choices" below).
Phone numbers collected at enrollment are used, and retained, only for as long as needed to communicate with you about your upcoming class; we don't keep them for any other purpose afterward.
Sensitive personal data collected only for a Beale AFB base pass — Social Security number, driver's license/ID information, and date of birth — is collected on paper, is not entered into our online systems, and it is our practice to securely dispose of these paper records after each class. This information is provided only to 9th Security Forces for the base pass request; we don't retain it for any other purpose.
Our website uses standard session cookies needed for basic site functionality, such as keeping your registration in progress while you complete checkout. We use Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent spam on our contact form; its script loads on every page, though the interactive challenge itself only appears on the contact form. We do not currently use advertising or analytics tracking cookies on our website. Separately from cookies, our server-side performance monitoring tool (Laravel Nightwatch, described above) records technical details about site requests to help us keep the site running reliably.
Our website does not currently respond to "Do Not Track" browser signals.
You can ask us at any time to tell you what information we have on file about you, correct it, or delete it, by contacting us using the information below. Because training certificates rely on accurate records, we may need to keep certain information — like your name, county, and firearm data — to be able to reissue a certificate on request.
If you fail to cancel your class in a timely manner, your class deposit may be forfeited. If you are attending a class on Beale Air Force Base and do not receive a base pass because you did not provide the information required by 9th Security Forces, no refund will be issued, as that outcome is not within our control.
We may update this policy from time to time, for example as our text messaging program or class offerings change. We'll update the effective date above when we do. Continuing to enroll in our classes or respond to our messages after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Questions about this policy, your information, or our text messaging program? Contact us at sales@badmoonshooting.com or through our contact page.