Information You Provide
A message sent through a contact channel can include a name, email address, subject, and whatever details the sender chooses to include. Do not send sensitive identifiers, legal documents, payment information, or confidential custody details. This private site cannot process an official records request.
Search queries entered into a third-party search tool pass to that provider for processing. The provider’s own privacy notice and terms govern its handling of the query and any result.
Technical Data Collected
Hosting, analytics, advertising, and security services may automatically receive routine technical information. That data can include an IP address, browser and version, device and operating system, pages visited, time spent, referring page, and timestamps.
Cookies and Similar Tools
Cookies may help measure how the site is used, retain basic preferences, support advertising, and identify technical problems. Browser controls can block or remove cookies, though some functions may then behave differently.
How Information Is Used
Collected data may be used to operate and secure the site, route search requests to a selected partner, understand which pages are useful, fix errors, respond to messages, and display advertising that may be relevant to a visitor. It is not used to maintain an official Smith County or Kansas record.
Links to Other Websites
Pages link to sheriff and corrections offices, court systems, statutes, notification tools, record portals, and outside search services. After a visitor leaves this site, the destination’s privacy rules apply. Advertising providers may use their own systems to measure activity across sites or select interest-based ads.
Who May Receive Data
Personal information is not sold as a standalone list. It may be handled by search partners that process queries, analytics and hosting providers, advertising networks, and vendors needed to operate the site. Information may also be disclosed to law enforcement or another government body when required by a valid legal order.
Security Is Best Effort
Reasonable technical and administrative practices are used to protect information. No internet-connected service is fully secure, however, and no promise can be made that access, storage, or transmission will always be free from loss or intrusion.
Visitors Under Eighteen
This site is intended for adults and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. A parent or guardian who believes a minor submitted information may use the Contacts page to request deletion.
Your Privacy Choices
Subject to applicable law and the data actually held, a visitor may ask for access to personal information, correction of an error, deletion, or an opt-out from certain processing. Browser settings and provider-level controls can also limit cookies and interest-based advertising. A request may require enough information to verify the requester and locate the data.
Notice Updates
This privacy notice may change as services, providers, or legal requirements change. A revised version takes effect when posted here with its new effective date.
Effective date: July 19, 2026.