Information You Submit
Names, telephone numbers, and addresses entered in a search box pass to the provider that supplies its results. Our servers do not retain those searches. A message sent to us is reviewed only to answer that message.
Automatic 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.
How That Data Is Used
Technical data helps maintain the service, diagnose faults, measure broad traffic patterns, and improve useful pages. Visitor lists are not sold, and individual browsing 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
Hosting and support vendors process routine logs on our behalf. Analytics or advertising services may receive the technical data described above. Information is otherwise disclosed only when valid legal process requires it.
How We Protect Your Data
Connections are encrypted, and logs are retained only while needed for the purposes stated here. Since visitors do not create accounts, the site stores no user password or account profile.
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
Iowa Code Chapter 715D gives qualifying consumers access, deletion, portability, and opt-out rights against covered private controllers, subject to the law's scope and exclusions. Because this operation keeps very little, a request generally means checking the contact mailbox and ordinary server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Government records are excluded from our control, so correction or removal requests for Johnston, Polk County, or Iowa files must go to the custodian.
Updates to This Policy
A revised policy will appear here. Continued use after publication of a revision indicates acceptance of the new version.