Information You Provide
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party provider serving that result. Our servers do not retain a copy of the search. If you contact us, we use the contents of your message only to respond.
Data We Gather Automatically
Our hosting keeps ordinary server logs: IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and timestamps. We look at this in aggregate to keep the site healthy and to see which pages readers use. Cookies or similar technologies may support basic analytics and, where applicable, advertising measurement.
What We Do With This Data
We use this limited information to operate the reference, resolve technical problems, measure aggregate use, and improve the pages. We do not sell visitor lists or build individual visitor profiles.
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
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal data held by a website. Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act, Va. Code Title 59.1, Chapter 53, applies to qualifying businesses subject to its thresholds and exceptions. Since we keep little information, a request normally involves the contact mailbox and server logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Fairfax County and Virginia public records are controlled by their own custodians, so requests concerning those records must go to the office that holds them.
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.