Data You Give Us Directly
Search Queries
Anything you type into a search box on this site goes directly to the third-party provider that runs that search, and the provider processes the query and returns the results. This site does not store or log the names, dates, or numbers you enter.
Messages and Contact Submissions
If you email us, we keep the message so we can reply to it. Your message stays with our team, and we do not pass it to anyone outside the organization unless a legal obligation requires it.
Data We Gather Automatically
Every page load produces some technical information on our servers:
- Timestamps for each page view
- The pages you opened and how long each stayed on screen
- The referring site, when one sent you here
- The browser you used and its version number
- Your device type and operating system
- The IP address assigned to your device
Cookies and Analytics
This site uses cookies, which are small files stored on your device that show how visitors move through the pages, including which pages draw the most traffic and where readers leave. Analytics services aggregate that traffic data for us. You can block cookies in your browser settings at any time, though some parts of the site may behave differently if you do.
What We Do With This Data
- Tracking down and fixing technical problems
- Showing advertising that may relate to your interests
- Keeping the site online and loading quickly
- Learning which pages readers find useful and which need work
- Routing your search requests to the partner service that handles them
No Warrant Data on File
This site does not host, compile, maintain, or sell any database of warrants or warrant records. What it publishes is general guidance about where Alger County warrant records are kept and how to ask for them, whether the office is the sheriff's department, the 93rd District Court, the circuit clerk, or a support case. Nothing collected from visitors is assembled into a report or a file about any person, and this site is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Third-Party Search Partners
The search boxes here are operated by outside companies. Whatever you enter into one of those tools is handled under that partner's privacy policy rather than this one, because the partner decides what it keeps and what it shares. Review the partner's policy before you submit a search.
Links to Other Websites
This site links to court pages, county offices, state agencies, legal aid providers, and outside search tools. Following one of those links takes you to a site we do not control, and that site's privacy policy then applies to your visit. Read it before you share personal details.
Advertising partners may also track activity across sites to target ads. That tracking happens on their systems, not on ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. Limited information can reach:
- Ad networks that place advertising on these pages
- Analytics providers that measure traffic and performance
- Search partners that process queries you submit here
- Government or law enforcement bodies when a valid legal order requires disclosure
How We Protect Your Data
We follow standard security practices for the data this site handles. No internet service can promise perfect protection, and we cannot guarantee that a breach will never occur, but we work to keep what we hold secure.
Users Under 18
This site is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has shared information with us, contact us and we will remove it.
Your Data Rights
Michigan's Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.235, governs public access to records held by Michigan public bodies, and its exemption section, MCL 15.243, lists the material a public body may withhold. Those provisions apply to the government offices this site points to, not to this website, which is privately operated and holds no warrant records. For your own data here, you can:
- Ask us to erase data we hold about you
- Request a copy of what we have on file about you
- Opt out of certain kinds of processing
- Ask us to correct information that is wrong
Updates to This Policy
This policy may change over time. When it does, the revised version appears on this page with a new effective date, so check back if you want to follow how visitor information is handled.