Information You Submit
A third-party provider receives names, phone numbers, or addresses entered in a search form. Our servers do not retain those queries. When you contact us, we use the contents of your message only to respond.
Routine Technical Data
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
We use limited technical data to operate the service, repair errors, measure overall traffic, and improve useful pages. Visitor lists are not sold, and we do not 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.
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 applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal data a website keeps about you. Illinois research did not identify a generally applicable comprehensive consumer-privacy statute for this reference, so specific rights may depend on the data and context. Because we retain little, requests usually involve our contact mailbox and server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Public records held by Illinois, Lake County, or Waukegan offices 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.