Information You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party results provider. Our servers do not retain a copy of that query. When you contact us, we receive the details included in your message and use them to answer.
Automatic Technical Data
Standard hosting logs may record an IP address, browser type, page request, and time. We review aggregate patterns to maintain the service and understand page use. Basic analytics and advertising measurement may rely on cookies or comparable technology.
What We Do With This Data
We use the limited data to operate the site, diagnose errors, measure traffic, and improve content. We neither sell visitor lists nor create profiles of individual readers.
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 where you live and whether the law applies, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal data. Iowa Code chapter 715D, the Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act, establishes state consumer-data rights and exemptions. Because we retain little data, we generally review the contact mailbox and relevant logs when responding. Use the Contact page to ask. Public records held by Iowa, Linn County, or a city are outside our control, so correction or removal requests must go to that custodian.
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.