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Privacy Policy

This policy explains the limited data connected with Joplin Residents Directory and the choices available to visitors. The service is a reference to public Joplin records and directory collections, not an account-based database. It does not require a login or maintain a personal record about a visitor.

Information You Submit

Search-form entries, such as a name, phone number, or address, are sent to the third-party provider that supplies results. Our servers do not retain a copy of those searches. If you contact us, we use the contents of the message only to respond.


Automatic Technical Data

Hosting systems create customary logs, including an IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and timestamps. We review this in aggregate for site operation and page-use patterns. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics and, when used, advertising measurement.


What We Do With This Data

We use this information to operate the service, resolve technical issues, measure traffic, and improve content. Visitor lists are not sold, and we do not create individual visitor profiles.


Links to Other Websites

We link out to county and state records portals, library collections, archives, and third-party search tools. Their privacy policies, not ours, govern what you submit there. That is especially true of the sponsored search results, which a third-party company provides.


Service Providers and Disclosure

Hosting and support providers process necessary server logs for us. Analytics and advertising partners may receive the automatic information described above. Data is disclosed only when required by valid legal process.


How We Protect Your Data

The site runs over an encrypted connection and logs are kept only as long as the purposes above need them. There are no accounts here, so no password or profile of yours exists on this site to be exposed.


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 Privacy Choices

Depending on where you live, privacy law may provide access, correction, or deletion rights for data a website holds. Research did not identify a general Missouri consumer-data deletion statute that applies to this reference service. Because we retain little, a request usually involves checking the contact mailbox and available server logs, then removing material found there when appropriate. Use the Contact page to ask. Missouri state, county, and city public records are outside our control, and any correction or removal request for them must go to the record custodian.


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.