Information You Send
A message sent to us contains the information in that message and is used to respond. Search terms entered into a sponsored search tool go to that tool's provider; our site does not retain a copy of those queries.
Automatic Technical Data
Hosting systems may create ordinary server logs such as IP address, browser type, requested pages, and timestamps. Cookies or comparable technology may support basic measurement and advertising functions.
How We Use It
Technical information is used to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the reference service. We do not sell visitor lists or make individual user profiles from routine site use.
External Services
Links lead to county, Township, state, library, archive, and sponsored-search services. Their own privacy terms apply to information submitted there, including any information entered into a search partner's form.
Service Providers
Hosting, analytics, and advertising providers may process the technical data described above to support the service. We disclose information only when valid legal process requires it or when needed to operate the site.
Security Practices
We use ordinary administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to this limited service. No system can promise absolute security, but there are no reader accounts or site-held password profiles here.
Visitors Under 18
This reference is intended for adults and is not directed to children. If a minor has sent personal information to us, contact us so that it can be removed from the message records we control.
Data Requests
Ask through the Contact page to access, correct, or delete personal information we keep. Pennsylvania has no single comprehensive consumer data-broker deletion law identified in the project research. Public records held by Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania agencies, courts, or archives are controlled by their custodians, not by this site. Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law, Act 3 of 2008, 65 P.S. §§ 67.101–67.3104, governs requests to covered agencies.
Policy Updates
A revised policy will be posted here. Continued use after publication is acceptance of the updated policy.