Information Collected
Search terms entered into sponsored search boxes may be sent to third-party search providers that power those tools. If a visitor sends a message to the site, the message may include name, email address, and the text submitted. The site may also collect routine technical data such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed, referring page, and timestamps. Cookies or similar tools may support analytics, advertising, fraud prevention, and basic site functions.
How Information Is Used
Information may be used to operate the site, answer site-related messages, understand page performance, maintain security, detect abuse, improve content, and support advertising or search partner features. Search partners, analytics vendors, ad networks, hosting providers, and similar service providers may receive data needed for those services. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, court order, subpoena, or another valid legal process.
Third-Party Links
Pages link to Alameda County, California, federal, court, VINE, BOP, ICE, and other public resources. Those outside websites are not controlled by this site. When a visitor leaves this site, the outside site's terms, privacy notice, cookies, payment rules, and records policies apply. Sponsored search providers also control their own data practices and results.
Security and Minors
Reasonable steps are used to protect information, but no website can promise perfect security. Visitors should not send Social Security numbers, full case files, medical details, or other sensitive information through ordinary site messages. This site is not directed to children under 18, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
User Choices
Visitors may block cookies through browser settings, use official agency links directly, or avoid sponsored search tools. A request to update, access, or delete site-held contact-message data can be sent through the available site contact channel, subject to legal, security, and operational limits. California privacy and public-records rights may vary by the type of data and the entity holding it.
Policy Updates
This notice may be updated when site features, vendors, laws, or operating practices change. Continued use of the site after an update means the current notice applies.