Information You Send
Search entries
A name, location, or other text entered in a search widget is sent to the third-party provider that operates that tool. This site does not keep or log those search terms on its own systems.
Messages
If you email or submit a contact message, the information in that message is retained as needed to read it, answer it, and maintain a record of the exchange. It is not shared outside the organization unless disclosure is required by law.
Technical Details Collected Automatically
Like most websites, a page request may create technical records such as an IP address, browser and version, device type and operating system, referring page, pages viewed, date and time, and general performance or error information. These details help keep the pages working, understand aggregate use, and protect the service. They are not used here to make a determination about a Richmond County booking.
Cookies and Similar Tools
The site or its service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, or related technologies for basic operation, analytics, advertising measurement, preferences, and fraud prevention. Browser settings may block or delete cookies, though some features or partner tools may then work differently. A third-party search box or advertisement can set its own technology under its own notice.
How Information Is Used
Information is used to provide pages and search tools, answer messages, measure and improve site performance, prevent misuse, show or measure advertising, and meet legal duties. Search partners may process text entered into their tools. Analytics providers and ad networks may receive technical or device information under their terms. Law enforcement or another authority may receive information when a valid legal order or other lawful demand requires it.
Links Outside This Site
The guide links to Richmond County Sheriff and Jail pages, police departments, courts, NCDAC, BOP, ICE, newspapers, archives, and third-party search or news pages. Once you leave this site, the destination controls its own collection, security, cookies, and retention. Review the destination’s policy before submitting information, especially to a government records office or a paid search partner.
Security and Retention
Reasonable safeguards are used, but no online transmission or storage system is guaranteed secure. Contact messages and technical records are kept only as long as needed for the purposes above, legal duties, dispute handling, or ordinary business needs. Search text entered into a partner tool is subject to that partner’s retention rules, not this site’s.
Children and User Choices
This site is not intended for people under 18. Do not submit another person’s sensitive information through a search or contact form. Depending on the law that applies, a person may ask what personal information is held, request correction or deletion where available, object to certain uses, or withdraw consent for optional technologies. To make a privacy request, use the site contact route and provide enough detail to identify the request. A request cannot override a legal retention duty or a third-party policy.
Changes to This Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised when the site, partners, technology, or law changes. The updated version takes effect when posted. Continued use after an update means the revised notice applies to future use.