Information You Submit
Search-box entries such as a name, phone number, or address are handled by the outside provider that delivers results, not stored as searches by this service. A contact message supplies only the information included in that message and is used to respond.
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.
What We Do With This Data
Automatic data helps operate, troubleshoot, measure, and improve the service. Visitor lists are not sold, and individual reader profiles are not created.
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
Visitors may ask about personal data this private service retains. Because the service keeps little beyond contact correspondence and ordinary logs, a request can be directed through the Contact page. Minnesota Government Data Practices Act requests concern government-held public records and must go to the applicable state, county, or city custodian, not to this private reference service.
Policy Changes
Revisions appear here when they are made. Continued use after publication accepts the revised policy.