Information You Submit
What you type into the search forms (a name, a phone number, or an address) goes to the third-party provider that powers the results; our own servers keep no copy of your searches. If you write to us, we see only what your message contains and use it to reply.
Routine Technical Data
Our hosting keeps ordinary server logs: IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and timestamps. We look at this in aggregate to keep the site healthy and to see which pages readers use. Cookies or similar technologies may support basic analytics and, where applicable, advertising measurement.
How Information Is Used
Technical data supports site operation, error diagnosis, traffic totals, and page improvements. We neither sell a visitor list nor assemble individual browsing profiles.
Privacy on Linked Services
County portals, Illinois agencies, archives, libraries, and third-party search services apply their own privacy terms. Information entered after following a link is governed by that destination, including information sent through sponsored search results.
Who Might See Your Data
The service providers that host and support the site process server logs for us. Analytics and advertising partners may receive the automatic data described above. We disclose data when a valid legal process requires it, and not otherwise.
Safeguards and Retention
An encrypted connection protects data in transit, and ordinary logs are retained only as needed for the uses stated above. Since visitors create no accounts here, the directory holds no account password or member profile.
Users Under 18
The site is meant for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18; if you believe a minor has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your Illinois Data Choices
Rights to access, correct, or delete personal data depend on the law that applies to you. Illinois's Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530, addresses security and breach notice, and excludes public government information from its relevant definition of personal information. It is not a broad deletion right for public records. Access to records held by public bodies instead follows the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140 and record-specific restrictions. Because we retain very little, a request normally means checking contact mail and available server logs. Use the Contact page. Records held by Northbrook, Cook County, or Illinois remain under the control of their custodians.
Updates to This Policy
Any change to this policy will be posted on this page. Using the site after a change means you accept the updated version.