Information You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered into a search form is sent to the third-party results provider. The reference's own servers do not retain a search copy. A message sent to the operator contains only what the sender includes and is used to respond.
Routine Technical Data
The host may create normal server logs, including an IP address, browser type, pages requested, and time of request. Aggregate review helps maintain the service and understand page use. Cookies or comparable tools can support basic analytics and, if used, advertising measurement.
What We Do With This Data
Operating the site, fixing problems, counting traffic, improving pages. We do not sell visitor lists and we do not build profiles of individual users.
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 Privacy Choices
Michigan FOIA, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231-15.246, governs access to public-body records, not a private universal deletion process. Research found no enacted Michigan comprehensive consumer-privacy law with a one-stop deletion right. Because this reference keeps very little visitor data, a request normally concerns the contact mailbox or server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. A public record held by a Michigan state, county, or township custodian must be corrected or addressed with that custodian.
Updates to This Policy
Revisions will appear on this page. Continued use after publication of a revised policy indicates acceptance of that version.