Information You Provide
Information entered in a search form, such as a name, telephone number, or address, is sent to the outside provider serving that result function. Our own servers do not retain a copy of those searches. A contact message gives us only its contents, which we use to respond.
Data We Gather Automatically
Our host may maintain normal server-log data, including IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. We review that information in aggregate for maintenance and readership trends. Cookies or comparable technologies can support basic analytics and, where applicable, advertising measurement.
What We Do With This Data
We use the limited data to operate the reference, resolve technical issues, measure traffic, and improve content. We do not sell visitor lists or 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 Data Rights
Depending on location, a visitor may have rights to ask for access, correction, or deletion of data a website keeps. Ohio did not have a broad consumer-privacy deletion statute verified in the research used here; ORC Chapter 1354 is a cybersecurity safe-harbor framework, not a public-record deletion law. Because this reference keeps little information, a request normally involves checking the contact mailbox and available logs. Use the Contact page. Ohio public records controlled by a state, county, township, or city office must be addressed to that custodian under the applicable law.
Updates to This Policy
Policy revisions will appear here. Continued use after publication of a revised policy indicates acceptance of the updated terms.