Information You Submit
Search boxes send the name, telephone number, or address entered to the third-party provider that returns sponsored results. We do not retain a separate copy of those searches on our servers. A direct message gives us the information the sender chooses to include, which we use to answer that inquiry.
Automatic Technical Data
Our hosting systems generate ordinary logs that can include an IP address, browser type, visited pages, and timestamps. Aggregated log data helps us maintain the site and see which resources are useful. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics and advertising measurement where applicable.
How We Use Information
We process the limited data above to run the service, diagnose faults, measure use, and improve content. We neither sell a visitor list nor create individual user profiles.
Privacy on Linked Services
Government portals, Santa Cruz County and California offices, library databases, and outside search providers apply their own privacy terms. Information submitted after leaving Santa Cruz People Search is governed by that destination. The same is true when a sponsored search tool processes a query.
Parties That Process Data
Hosting and support providers handle technical logs for us. Analytics or advertising partners may receive the automatic information described above. We may disclose data when valid legal process requires it, but do not otherwise distribute visitor information.
Security and Retention
An encrypted connection serves the site. Technical logs are kept only as long as needed for the stated purposes. Since users do not create accounts here, Santa Cruz People Search holds no user password or account profile.
People Under Age 18
The service is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect a minor's personal information. Contact us if a person under 18 submitted data so it can be removed.
California Privacy Choices
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 gives covered consumers rights that can include access, correction, deletion, limits on sensitive-data use, and opting out of sale or sharing. A request to us usually concerns only contact messages or server logs because we hold little data. Use the Contact page to make one. Santa Cruz city, county, court, and state records remain under their custodians' control. The CCPA does not erase official records from those offices.
Policy Revisions
Any revised policy will appear here. Using the service after an update indicates acceptance of the revised terms.