Information You Submit
Names, phone numbers, and addresses entered in search forms are sent to the outside provider that supplies results. Our servers do not retain those searches. When you contact us, we receive the contents of your message and use them to respond.
Automatic Technical Data
Standard hosting logs can include an IP address, browser type, viewed pages, and timestamps. Aggregate patterns help maintain the service and show which resources receive use. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may also rely on cookies or similar technology.
How Data Is Used
Limited data supports site operation, troubleshooting, traffic measurement, and page improvements. We neither sell visitor lists nor assemble profiles of individual readers.
Privacy on Linked Services
County portals, Illinois systems, library collections, archives, and outside search tools set their own privacy practices. Their policies govern data submitted after leaving this site. Sponsored results are also provided by a third party.
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 ask to access, correct, or delete personal data a website keeps about you. Illinois has sector-specific privacy laws rather than a comprehensive consumer privacy statute identified in the project research. Because we retain little data, a request generally involves checking the contact mailbox and available server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Records held by Illinois, Winnebago County, or municipal offices remain outside our control, and correction or removal requests must go to the custodian.
Changes to This Policy
Revisions will appear here. Continued use after a posted change signals acceptance of the revised policy.