Information You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party results provider. Our servers do not retain a copy of those searches. If you contact us, we receive the details in your message and use them to answer.
Information Collected Automatically
Standard hosting logs may record an IP address, browser type, visited pages, and time stamps. We review aggregate patterns to maintain the service and understand page use. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may also rely on cookies or similar tools.
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
Privacy rights vary by place and may include access, correction, or deletion rights for data a website keeps. The research did not identify a general Illinois consumer-privacy statute equivalent to the broad laws in some other states, so this policy makes no claim that one applies. We can check our contact mailbox and retained server logs when asked through the Contact page. Public records held by Illinois, county, or Village offices remain under the custodian's laws and procedures, including the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140.
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.