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Privacy Policy

This policy explains the limited visitor data handled by Barnstable County Residents Directory. The service is a private reference to public-record custodians and collections in Massachusetts. It does not require an account or keep a directory profile about visitors.

Information You Submit

A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the provider that returns those sponsored results. Our servers do not keep a copy of that search. If you contact us, we receive the information in your message and use it to respond.

Automatic Technical Data

Hosting may create routine server logs, including IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. We review aggregated activity to operate and improve the service. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics or advertising measurement.

How Data Is Used

Technical data is used to maintain the service, diagnose problems, measure traffic, and improve content. We do not sell visitor lists or create individual visitor profiles.

External Services

Links lead to official county and state portals, library collections, archives, and third-party search providers. Their own privacy notices govern any information submitted there, including information submitted through sponsored search results.

Data Recipients

Hosting, analytics, and advertising providers may process the automatic information described above for us. Information may also be disclosed when valid legal process requires it.

Security Practices

The service uses an encrypted connection and retains logs only for the purposes described here. There are no site accounts, passwords, or resident profiles maintained by Barnstable County Residents Directory.

Visitors Under 18

This service is for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly seek personal information from a person under 18. Contact us if you believe a minor has sent information, and it will be removed.

Your Privacy Choices

You may ask about personal information we hold through the Contact page. We will review the contact message and available logs and remove information where appropriate. The research did not verify an enacted Massachusetts comprehensive consumer-privacy or all-broker deletion statute that applies here, so no broader statutory deletion right is promised. Official public records are controlled by the relevant Massachusetts, county, or town custodian, not by this private reference.

Policy Changes

Any update will be posted here. Continued use after publication of an updated policy means the new wording applies.