Safety First
At Advanced Community Rowing Association, safety is our highest priority—after, developing skills, improving, fitness and participating in competition. Combining good judgment, and common sense on the water and on land can prevent accidents. We must protect people first, and then protect equipment.
Coaches, coxes and bow persons must follow the traffic patterns diligently. Rowers are expected to alert the coach, cox, or bow person if anything is amiss.
USRowing
USRowing has produced an updated safety video with funding provided by a grant from the United States Coast Guard. Since the first safety video was released in the late 1980s, the number of rowing clubs in the U.S. has more than doubled and pleasure boat traffic has increased dramatically. The need for safety awareness has never been greater. Major and minor accidents have a direct impact on the lives of those involved and some incidents can have repercussions for the entire rowing community. The safety video has two main sections, one for everyone who is involved with the rowing program and the other for just coaches and administrators. USRowing stresses that everyone review the safety video once a year and all rowing programs have an active safety committee to make sure that club policies and procedures are up to date.
ACRA Parents:
You will need to sign an online USRowing Waiver in order for your child to participate in regattas in all seasons. Please follow the instructions below:
- Go to https://rosters.usrowing.org/
- Advanced Community Rowing Association’s Club Code is: FARSU Enter this in the Athletes box on the right side of the page.
- Search for your son/daughter and add them to the club roster.
- Complete the profile information and check the box to sign waiver.
- If you will have any technical issues, please contact RegattaCentral at 614-360-2922 or via email at [email protected].
Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 26, 2026
Information you give us. When you register for a program we collect: parent or guardian name, email address, and phone number; participant name, date of birth, gender, and grade; any injuries or medical conditions you tell us about; and your acknowledgment of our waivers. We collect this to contact you about the program, to confirm the participant meets the age requirements, and to keep participants safe on the water. Health information is used only by coaching staff for participant safety. It is never used for advertising, never shared with advertising partners, and is not captured in our session recordings.
Payments. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. We do not receive or store your card number.
Information collected automatically. We use Google Analytics 4 for page views and traffic sources; Meta Pixel to measure the results of our Facebook and Instagram ads and to show ads to people who have visited this site; and Microsoft Clarity for anonymized recordings of clicks and scrolling on our program and registration pages, so we can see where the pages are confusing. Text you type into forms is masked and is not captured in these recordings. Microsoft may use this data to improve its products and services, including advertising. These services may also collect your IP address, device type, browser, and approximate location derived from your IP address.
Your choices. You can decline non-essential analytics and advertising cookies through the banner shown on your first visit, or at any time using the Your Privacy Choices link. We also honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal automatically. New Jersey residents may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data, and may opt out of targeted advertising, by emailing us. We do not sell personal data.
Children. This website is directed to parents and guardians, not to children. Participant information, including information about minors, is provided to us by a parent or legal guardian during registration. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13, and we do not use participant information for targeted advertising.
Retention. Registration records are kept as long as needed for program administration and legal requirements. Analytics data is retained according to each provider's standard retention period.
Contact. Advanced Community Rowing Association · [email protected] · +1 (201) 359-6255