Details You Submit
A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the third-party provider that supplies the results. Our servers do not retain a copy of those searches. When you write to us, we receive the contents of your message and use them to respond.
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.
How Information Is Used
We use available data to operate the site, troubleshoot faults, measure traffic, and improve content. We neither sell lists of visitors nor create individual user profiles.
External Website Links
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.
When Data May Be Shared
Providers that host or support the website process server logs on our behalf. Analytics and advertising services may receive the automatic information described above. Apart from those operations, we disclose data only when valid legal process requires it.
Safeguarding Information
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
Your place of residence may give you rights to access, correct, or delete personal information held by a website. No comprehensive West Virginia consumer privacy statute with a universal opt-out or deletion right was identified in the governing research, so any applicable right may arise under a narrower state or federal law. Because little data is retained here, a request will generally concern contact messages and available server logs. Submit it through the Contact page. Records held by West Virginia, Putnam County, or City of Hurricane offices remain under the control of their public custodians and, where applicable, the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act, W. Va. Code ยงยง29B-1-1 through 29B-3-6.
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.