Information You Submit
A name, telephone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party results provider. Our servers do not retain the search. A message sent to us is read only as needed to answer it.
Information Collected Automatically
Standard hosting logs can include an IP address, browser type, viewed pages, and timestamps. Aggregated logs help maintain the service and measure page use. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may rely on cookies or similar technology.
How the Information Is Used
Limited data supports operation, troubleshooting, traffic measurement, and page improvements. We neither sell visitor lists nor create profiles of individual readers.
Privacy on Linked Services
Cook County and Illinois portals, library and archive sites, and third-party tools apply their own privacy policies. Their rules govern information submitted after leaving this site, including data entered for sponsored results.
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
Rights to access, correct, or delete site-held personal data depend on applicable law. The research found pending Illinois consumer-privacy proposals, not an enacted comprehensive statute to cite as a current right. A request through the Contact page prompts a search of the limited mailbox and server-log data. Illinois, Cook County, and Park Ridge public records remain under their custodians' correction and access rules.
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.