Data You Choose to Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party provider that supplies the results. Our servers do not retain those searches. When you contact us directly, we receive the contents of your message and use them only to respond.
Automatic Technical Data
Our hosting keeps ordinary server logs: IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and timestamps. We look at this in aggregate to keep the site healthy and to see which pages readers use. Cookies or similar technologies may support basic analytics and, where applicable, advertising measurement.
Why Limited Data Is Used
Limited data helps us operate the site, diagnose faults, measure traffic, and improve pages. We neither sell lists of visitors nor create individual user profiles.
Links Beyond This Website
We link out to county and state records portals, library collections, archives, and third-party search tools. Their privacy policies, not ours, govern what you submit there. That is especially true of the sponsored search results, which a third-party company provides.
Who Might See Your Data
The service providers that host and support the site process server logs for us. Analytics and advertising partners may receive the automatic data described above. We disclose data when a valid legal process requires it, and not otherwise.
Protecting Limited Data
An encrypted connection protects traffic to the site, and logs remain only as long as the purposes described above require. Because the site has no user accounts, it holds no visitor password or account profile.
Users Under 18
The site is meant for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18; if you believe a minor has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your Data Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning personal data held by a website. Illinois uses sector-specific privacy laws. Its Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, governs breach notice but does not create a universal right to remove a name from public directories. Because we retain little data, a request normally involves checking contact mail and server logs. Use the Contact page. Records held by Illinois or local agencies remain under their custodians' control.
Policy Revisions
Changes to this policy will appear here. Continued use after a revision indicates acceptance of the updated policy.