Information You Submit
A third-party provider receives the name, phone number, or address entered in a search form and supplies the results. Our servers do not retain those searches. When you contact us, we use the details in your message only to respond.
Information Collected Automatically
Standard hosting logs may record an IP address, browser type, viewed pages, and time of access. Aggregated logs help diagnose faults and measure page use. Cookies or related tools may also support basic analytics and advertising measurement where used.
How Information Is Used
Information supports site operation, troubleshooting, traffic counts, and page improvements. We neither sell lists of visitors 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 Privacy Choices
Illinois does not have a broad consumer privacy statute equivalent to those adopted in some other states, though specific state and federal protections still apply. You may ask us to locate, correct, or delete personal information we hold. Because our holdings are limited, that usually means checking contact mail and server logs. Use the Contact page. Records maintained by Illinois, Cook County, or Des Plaines custodians remain outside our control, so correction or removal requests must go to the office that holds them.
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.