Information You Enter
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 the search. If you email us, we receive the details in your message and use them to answer it.
Information Collected by the Site
Our host may keep routine server logs such as IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time stamps. We review those details in aggregate to maintain the site and understand which pages are useful. Cookies or related tools may also support basic analytics and, when present, advertising measurement.
How We Use the Information
We use it to run the site, diagnose faults, measure traffic, and improve the pages. We do not sell visitor lists or create individual user profiles.
When You Follow an Outside Link
Pages may point to Santa Barbara County and California records portals, libraries, archives, and third-party search tools. The destination's privacy policy governs anything you submit there, not this policy. Sponsored search results are supplied by a separate company and follow its own practices.
Who May Receive It
Hosting and support providers may process the server logs on our behalf. Analytics or advertising partners may receive the automatic information described above. We disclose information when valid legal process requires disclosure, and otherwise do not do so.
How We Safeguard It
The site uses an encrypted connection, and logs are retained only for as long as the purposes above call for them. Since the site has no accounts, it does not keep a password or user profile that could be exposed here.
Children and the Site
This reference site is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a person under 18; if you think a minor sent us information, contact us so we can delete it.
Your California Privacy Choices
Where its scope and exceptions apply, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, Civil Code sections 1798.100-1798.199.100, gives qualifying consumers rights to know or access, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing, limit sensitive personal-information use, and receive equal treatment. California recognizes Global Privacy Control as an opt-out signal. See the California Attorney General's CCPA guidance for more information. Because this site keeps very little, a request normally means that we search the contact mailbox and relevant server logs, then remove what we can. Use the Contact page to make a request. The California Public Records Act, Government Code sections 7920.000 et seq., governs requests to public custodians rather than to this site; statutory recorder and court files remain outside our control. California's Safe at Home program, Government Code sections 6205-6211, can provide a substitute address and mail forwarding for qualifying participants, but it does not erase older records. Recorder copies must truncate or redact Social Security numbers under Government Code sections 27300-27307. DMV personal data is restricted by the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act and Vehicle Code section 1808.21, while voter-file access is limited by Elections Code sections 2194 and 18109. Those protections belong to the applicable custodian, so requests about an official file should go to that office.
Policy Changes
We will publish a revised version on this page if this policy changes. Continuing to use the site after the revision is posted indicates acceptance of the updated terms.