Information You Submit
A name, telephone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the outside provider supplying those results. Our servers do not retain a copy of that query. Messages sent to us contain only the details you choose to provide, which are used to answer you.
Automatic Technical Data
Routine hosting logs can include an IP address, browser type, requested pages, and timestamps. Aggregate patterns help diagnose faults and show which material is useful. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may use cookies or similar technology.
What We Do With This Data
Operating the site, fixing problems, counting traffic, improving pages. We do not sell visitor lists and we do not build profiles of individual users.
Links to Other Websites
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.
How We Protect Your Data
The site runs over an encrypted connection and logs are kept only as long as the purposes above need them. There are no accounts here, so no password or profile of yours exists on this site to be exposed.
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 hold rights to access, correct, or delete personal data a website keeps about you. Illinois’s Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, governs breach notice and data security for covered personal information; it is not a general deletion registry for public records. Because we keep almost nothing, requests usually end quickly: we search our contact mailbox and server logs and remove what we find. Use the Contact page to ask. Public records held by Illinois state, county, or city offices are outside our control; removal requests for those go to the custodian office.
Updates to This Policy
Any change to this policy will be posted on this page. Using the site after a change means you accept the updated version.