Information You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search box is sent to the outside provider that supplies the result. Our servers do not retain a copy of that query. When you contact us, we receive the content you choose to send and use it to answer.
Data We Gather Automatically
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.
How Information Is Used
Automatic data supports site operation, repairs, traffic totals, and page improvements. We neither sell visitor lists nor create individual visitor 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.
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 have rights concerning personal data a website keeps. Illinois has not enacted a general data-broker deletion law in the official material reviewed. The Illinois Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, chiefly addresses security and breach notice. Because we retain little, a request generally involves our contact mailbox and server logs. Use the Contact page. Records held by Illinois, McHenry County, Kane County, or the Village remain under the custodian's control.
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.