Information You Submit
A name, telephone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the outside provider that supplies the results. Our servers do not retain a copy of that search. When you contact us, we receive the contents of your message and use them to answer.
Automatic Technical Data
Standard hosting logs can contain an IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. We review combined traffic data to maintain the service and understand page use. Cookies or comparable tools may be used for basic analytics and, when present, advertising measurement.
How Information Is Used
Information supports site operation, troubleshooting, traffic measurement, and page improvements. We neither sell visitor lists nor create profiles of individual readers.
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 Privacy Choices
Rights to review, correct, or delete website-held personal data depend on applicable law. Illinois's Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, governs security, disposal, and breach notice; it is not a broad right to erase public records. Because we retain little visitor data, a request normally involves checking contact messages and server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Records held by Illinois, Stephenson County, or Freeport agencies remain under the control of those custodians.
Policy Revisions
Revised terms will appear on this page. Continued use after an update indicates acceptance of the new policy.