Information You Submit
A third-party provider receives names, phone numbers, or addresses entered in sponsored search forms. Our servers do not retain those queries. When you contact us, we use the details in your message only to address that communication.
Automatic Technical Data
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 limited data to run the service, diagnose faults, measure overall traffic, and improve content. We neither sell visitor lists nor create individual reader 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
Your place of residence may provide rights to inspect, correct, or delete personal data held by a website. No comprehensive enacted West Virginia consumer-privacy act was verified in the project research, so no proposed bill is stated here as current law. We can check our mailbox and server logs for a request sent through the Contact page. Records held by West Virginia or Monongalia County remain under the custodian's control, and correction or removal requests must go there.
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.