Information You Submit
A third-party provider receives the name, phone number, or address entered into a search box. Our servers do not retain a copy of those searches. When you contact us, we receive the details placed in your message and use them to answer.
Technical Data Collected
Routine hosting logs can include an IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. Aggregate review helps maintain the service and measure page use. Cookies or comparable tools may support basic analytics and advertising measurement where applicable.
How Information Is Used
Data supports site operation, troubleshooting, traffic measurement, and content improvement. We neither sell visitor lists nor assemble profiles of individual readers.
Privacy on Linked Services
County and Illinois portals, library catalogs, archives, and outside search providers apply their own privacy terms. Their policies govern data entered after following a link. Sponsored results are also supplied by a separate company.
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
Rights to access, correct, or delete personal data depend on applicable law. Illinois's Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, addresses data security and breach notice but is not a general public-record deletion law. Because little information is retained here, a request normally involves checking contact mail and available server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Records held by Illinois, DeKalb County, or City of DeKalb offices remain under the control of those custodians.
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.