Information You Submit
A third-party provider receives the name, phone number, or address entered in a search form. Our servers do not retain a copy of those searches. When you contact us, we use the details in your message only to respond.
Information Collected Automatically
Standard hosting logs may contain an IP address, browser type, requested page, and time. Aggregate use helps maintain the service and identify popular pages. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may use cookies or similar tools where applicable.
How Information Is Used
Data supports site operation, fault diagnosis, traffic counts, and content 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 Privacy Choices
Applicable law may provide rights to inspect, correct, or delete personal data held by a website. Illinois does not have a single comprehensive consumer privacy statute that supplies a general deletion right here; specific laws, including the Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14, govern particular data. We collect no biometric identifiers. A request sent through the Contact page will be checked against our contact mailbox and server logs. Records held by Illinois, Cook County, or Village offices remain under the control of those custodians, so correction or removal requests must go to the responsible office.
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.