Effective and last reviewed: September 16, 2026
This policy explains how court-records.us/ may collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit the site, contact us, or interact with website features. Our core service is editorial navigation to public court sources, so we aim to avoid collecting sensitive person-level information that is not necessary to operate the website.
Information you choose to provide
If you email us, report a correction, submit accessibility feedback, or make a privacy request, we receive the information you choose to include, such as your email address, name, message, URLs, source links, and attachments.
Please do not send Social Security numbers, passwords, full financial account numbers, unredacted identity documents, sealed filings, protected medical information, or other highly sensitive content unless it is genuinely necessary and an appropriate secure method has been arranged.
Technical information that may be processed automatically
Our hosting, security, content-delivery, analytics, consent-management, or advertising systems may process information such as:
- IP address;
- browser and operating-system information;
- device type and screen characteristics;
- requested URL and referring page;
- timestamps;
- approximate region inferred from network information;
- cookie or consent settings;
- error and performance information; and
- security signals used to detect spam, bots, abuse, or attacks.
How information may be used
- to deliver pages and website functionality;
- to secure the website and prevent abuse;
- to diagnose technical problems;
- to understand aggregate readership and site performance;
- to remember consent or preference choices;
- to respond to editorial corrections and accessibility reports;
- to document changes to official court sources;
- to administer advertising or affiliate programs if enabled; and
- to comply with applicable legal obligations.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files or identifiers used by websites and service providers. Similar technologies can include local storage, pixels, tags, and server-side identifiers.
Necessary and security technologies
These may support core page delivery, load balancing, fraud prevention, bot detection, security, and consent storage. Blocking them can interfere with normal website operation.
Preference technologies
These can remember choices that improve the visitor experience.
Analytics technologies
Analytics can help us understand page views, device categories, navigation patterns, performance, and aggregate engagement so we can improve the structure and usefulness of the site.
Advertising technologies
If advertising is enabled, advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies for ad delivery, measurement, frequency control, fraud prevention, and, where permitted, personalization.
Consent and browser controls
Most modern browsers allow users to delete or block cookies, restrict third-party cookies, or clear stored site data. Those choices can affect website functionality. Where a consent or privacy-choice tool appears on court-records.us/, use that tool to express the choices offered for nonessential technologies.
Advertising and state privacy terminology
We do not operate a business whose purpose is selling the personal information visitors submit in correction or contact messages. Some U.S. state laws, however, use broad definitions of “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising that can cover certain advertising-technology disclosures. If our actual use of advertising technology creates an applicable opt-out right, we will provide the required control.
Global privacy control and recognized signals
Where applicable law requires recognition of a browser-based opt-out signal, we intend to configure relevant systems to respect legally recognized choices that apply to our practices.
Service providers
We may use providers for hosting, content delivery, security, analytics, email, consent management, advertising, and related website functions. Depending on the service, a provider may process limited information on our behalf or under its own privacy terms.
External court and government websites
When you follow a link to a court, clerk, PACER, judicial branch, government agency, or other external service, that destination's privacy rules apply. Those sites may request accounts, payment information, identity details, or search criteria that court-records.us/ does not receive.
We do not ask visitors to submit identity profiles for court matching
Our core editorial function is to explain where official sources are located. We do not require a visitor to submit a Social Security number, full date of birth, or identity profile so that we can create a private dossier of court records.
Retention
We retain information for only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, website security, legal obligations, dispute resolution, editorial documentation, or operational needs. Different technical systems can use different retention periods.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to an informational website. No website, email system, internet transmission, or storage platform can be guaranteed completely secure.
Children’s privacy
The site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly request personal information from children under 13 through our editorial contact functions.
U.S. state privacy rights
Depending on your state and whether a particular law applies to our operations, you may have rights involving access, correction, deletion, portability, or opt-out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing. Definitions, thresholds, exceptions, and verification standards differ by state.
Privacy requests
Send requests to contact@court-records.us with “Privacy Request” in the subject line. Describe what you are asking us to review. Do not attach sensitive identity documents in your first message. If verification is required, we will explain what information is reasonably necessary.
Email communications
If you contact us, we may retain the communication as needed to respond, document a correction, protect the website, or comply with law. Sending a correction request does not enroll you in marketing messages.
Policy changes
We may update this policy as our technology, vendors, advertising practices, or legal obligations change. The date above reflects the latest review.