Information You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party provider serving that result. Our servers do not retain a copy of the search. When a visitor sends a message, we receive the contents of that message and use them to respond.
Routine Technical Data
Hosting services may keep standard server logs, including an IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and timestamps. Aggregate review helps maintain the service and understand readership. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics and, where used, advertising measurement.
How Limited Data Is Used
The purposes are operating the reference, troubleshooting, measuring traffic, and improving its pages. Visitor lists are not sold, and individual user 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 Information Choices
Depending on where a visitor lives, they may have rights to seek access, correction, or deletion of personal data a website holds. Because little data is retained, a request normally involves the contact mailbox and available server logs. Use the Contact page to make one. The Michigan Freedom of Information Act procedure concerns records held by public bodies, not records controlled here; requests concerning government records belong with the state, county, or city custodian.
Changes to This Policy
Any revision will appear here. Continuing to use the reference after a revision means accepting the updated policy.