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Privacy Policy

This policy explains the limited data Gainesville Residents Directory receives and the choices available to visitors. No account is needed. The site points to public rolls and directory collections in Gainesville, Georgia, but does not host personal record files.

Data You Give Us Directly

A name, phone number, or address entered in a search form is sent to the outside provider that supplies those results. Our servers do not retain a copy of that query. When you contact us, we receive the contents of your message and use them to respond.


Data We Gather Automatically

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.


What We Do With This Data

Automatic data helps operate the service, diagnose faults, measure traffic, and improve pages. We neither sell lists of visitors nor create individual user 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.


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.


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 Data Rights

Your place of residence may give you rights to access, correct, or delete personal data held by a website. Since our records are limited, a request normally involves checking the contact mailbox and server logs, then removing responsive data where required. Use the Contact page to ask. Public records held by Georgia, Hall County, or Gainesville offices remain under the custodian's control, so correction or removal requests for those records must go there.


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.