Information You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered into a search form is sent to the outside provider that supplies those 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 respond.
Automatic Technical Data
Standard hosting logs may contain an IP address, browser type, viewed pages, and timestamps. We review combined traffic to maintain the service and understand page use. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may rely on cookies or comparable technologies where applicable.
How Information Is Used
Limited data helps operate the service, diagnose faults, measure visits, and improve content. We neither sell lists of visitors nor create individual user profiles.
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.
Safeguarding Limited Data
Connections are encrypted, and logs are retained only while needed for the purposes stated above. Because visitors create no accounts, the site holds no user 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 Privacy Choices
Illinois has no omnibus consumer privacy law equivalent to California's law identified in the project research. The Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, addresses security, breach notice, and disposal rather than creating a blanket public-record deletion right. If you ask to access, correct, or delete data we hold, we will check our contact mailbox and available server logs. Use the Contact page. Records held by Illinois, Cook County, or Village offices remain under the control and retention rules of those custodians.
Policy Revisions
Changes will appear on this page. Continued use after a revision is posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.