Data You Send Directly
Information entered into a name, phone, or address search is sent to the third-party provider that supplies the results. San Rafael Residents Directory does not keep a copy of those search terms on its own servers. If you write to the site, the message and contact details you choose to include are visible to the recipient and are used to answer the request.
Data Collected Automatically
Normal hosting logs may record an IP address, browser type, viewed pages, and timestamps. Those logs can be reviewed in aggregate for security, performance, and readership patterns. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics or, where used, advertising measurement. The site does not promise that a linked provider follows the same practice.
How the Data Is Used
Information is used to operate the pages, fix technical issues, measure traffic, and improve the reference. The site does not sell a visitor list or build an individual profile from the public-record topics that a reader views. A message may be retained long enough to respond or keep a basic contact history.
Links to Other Websites
Pages link to Marin County and California portals, courts, libraries, archives, and sponsored search tools. Once a visitor leaves San Rafael Residents Directory, the destination's terms and privacy policy control what is submitted there. This includes any information typed into a sponsored result form.
Who May Receive Data
Hosting and technical service providers may process server logs so the site can run. Analytics or advertising partners may receive the automatic data described above when those services are enabled. Information may also be disclosed when a valid legal process requires it. It is not disclosed for unrelated purposes.
Security Measures
The site uses an encrypted connection, and logs are kept only as long as the purposes above require. There are no site accounts, passwords, or resident profiles stored here. No online service can promise absolute security, so avoid sending more personal information than the named custodian needs.
Visitors Under 18
The reference is intended for adults and is not directed to children. The site does not knowingly collect personal information from someone under 18. If a minor's information has been sent through a contact message, use the Contact page so the site can review and delete it when appropriate.
Your California Privacy Rights
Where applicable, California's Consumer Privacy Act, Civil Code sections 1798.100 and following, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, provides rights to know, delete, correct, and limit certain uses of personal information. Because this site keeps very little, a request normally means checking the contact mailbox and relevant server logs, then removing information the site controls. Use the Contact page to ask. Public records held by California, Marin County, or San Rafael offices are outside this site's control, so a removal or correction request for those records must go to the custodian.
California's Delete Act provisions, Civil Code sections 1798.99.80 through 1798.99.89, created the state's DROP service for covered data-broker requests. A broker deletion request does not erase a lawful official record held by a public office.
Updates to This Policy
A revised policy takes effect when posted on this page. Continued use after a change indicates acceptance of the updated wording. The date of a material revision may be added near the posted version.