Details You Choose to Send
Search terms such as a name, telephone number, or address go to the outside provider that returns the results. A copy of that query is not stored on our servers. If you send us a message, we receive its contents and use them to respond.
Standard Technical Records
Our host logs ordinary technical data, including an IP address, browser type, pages requested, and time stamps. We use patterns in the combined data to operate the service and learn how pages are used. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics and advertising measurement.
Why We Use This Information
This limited information helps us run the site, diagnose errors, measure traffic, and improve the published material. We do not sell lists of visitors or create profiles of individual readers.
Policies on Linked Services
Some links open Bellingham, Whatcom County, or Washington government portals, libraries, archives, and outside search services. Information entered at a destination is governed by that service's privacy policy. A third party also provides sponsored search results.
When Data May Be Shared
Providers that host or maintain the site process technical logs on our behalf. Analytics and advertising services may receive the automatically collected data described above. We may also disclose information when required by valid legal process; we do not otherwise disclose it.
Safeguarding Visitor Data
An encrypted connection protects data sent to the site, and technical logs are retained only as long as needed for the purposes stated above. Because visitors do not create accounts, this service holds no user password or account profile.
Visitors Under 18
This service is intended for adults, not children. We do not knowingly gather personal information from anyone younger than 18. Contact us if you believe a minor submitted information, and we will remove it.
Your Available Privacy Choices
Applicable law may give you rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data held by a website. Because we retain little visitor information, a request will usually concern a message in the contact mailbox or an available technical log. Submit it through the Contact page. Public records held by Washington, Whatcom County, or the City of Bellingham stay under the control of the government custodian, so requests to correct or remove those records must be sent to that office.
Changes to This Policy
We will publish policy revisions here. Continued use after a revision is posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.