Information You Provide
A name, phone number, or address entered into a search form is submitted to the outside provider that supplies results. Our servers do not retain a copy of those searches. If you contact us, we receive the content of your message and use it to respond or address the request.
Automatic Information
Like most hosted sites, we receive routine server-log details such as IP address, browser type, page requests, and timestamps. We review this information in aggregate to operate, secure, and improve the service. Cookies or related technologies may also support basic analytics and advertising measurement where used.
How We Use Information
We use limited data to run the site, respond to messages, diagnose errors, understand aggregate traffic, and improve the reference material. We do not sell visitor lists or create individual visitor profiles from the information described here.
External Websites
Links may lead to Beaufort County, South Carolina, library, archive, court, or third-party search resources. Their terms and privacy policies control information submitted on their sites. Sponsored search results are also supplied by an outside company, not by this private reference.
Service Providers
Hosting and support providers may process routine log information on our behalf. Analytics or advertising partners may receive the automatic data described above. We disclose information when required by valid legal process and otherwise only as needed to operate the site.
Protecting Information
The site uses an encrypted connection, and routine logs are retained only for the operational purposes described here. There are no visitor accounts, passwords, or on-site personal profiles for us to maintain. No security method can promise absolute protection, but we use reasonable measures for the limited data we handle.
Visitors Under 18
This reference is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a person under 18. If you believe a minor has sent us information, contact us so that we can review and delete it where appropriate.
Your Privacy Choices
You may ask about personal data held by this private reference through the Contact page. Because we keep little information, the request normally concerns a message or routine log information. Research did not identify a confirmed enacted comprehensive South Carolina data-broker or deletion statute that governs a broad removal request. Government and archival records remain controlled by the custodian that holds them, not by this site. Requests about a public record must go to the relevant Town, Beaufort County, state, court, library, or archive office.
South Carolina's Address Confidentiality Program is a separate protected-address mechanism under S.C. Code ยง 16-25-130. It does not transfer control of pre-existing public records to this site. Questions about program eligibility or protected records should go to the appropriate state or record custodian.
Policy Updates
Any revision will be posted here. Continued use after the revised policy appears means that you accept the updated terms.