Information You Choose to Provide
If you send a message, we receive the contact details and text you provide. Search terms entered into an embedded search box are transmitted to the outside company that operates that tool, not to a Boone County agency. Avoid putting Social Security numbers, full birth dates, financial information or other sensitive details into a message or search field.
Technical Data and Cookies
Our servers and service providers may automatically record an IP address, browser and device type, referring page, pages viewed, approximate location, timestamps and diagnostic events. Cookies or similar storage can remember settings, measure traffic, support advertising and help search tools function. Browser controls can block or clear cookies, though some features may then work differently.
How Information Is Used
Information may be used to operate and secure the site, answer messages, diagnose errors, understand which Boone County record guides are useful, improve navigation, measure advertising and prevent abuse. We may also use it to comply with legal obligations and enforce the site's terms. We do not use this website to make official custody or court decisions.
Privacy on Linked Websites
Links lead to the Boone County Sheriff, IowaVINE, Iowa Courts Online, corrections systems, news pages and other services. Those sites have their own operators, policies and security practices. This notice does not govern information collected after you follow an outside link or submit data to an embedded provider.
Parties That May Receive Data
Data may be shared with vendors needed to run the site, including hosting, security, analytics, advertising and search partners. A search partner receives the query needed to return its results. Information may also be disclosed to law enforcement or another authority when required by a valid legal order, or when reasonably necessary to protect users, the service or legal rights. We do not promise that a third party will apply the same retention rules we use.
Steps Taken to Protect Data
Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are used to reduce unauthorized access, loss or misuse. No internet transmission, storage system or security control is perfect, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed. Send only information needed for the question.
Visitors Under 18
This site is intended for adults and is not designed to collect personal information from people under 18. If we learn that a minor submitted personal data, we may delete it. Juvenile arrest and court material can also be confidential under Iowa law and should not be submitted for republication.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on the law that applies, you may request access to, correction of or deletion of personal information we control, or object to certain processing. Browser settings can manage cookies. Requests about data held by the Boone County Sheriff, an Iowa court, IowaVINE or a search partner must go to that organization because we do not control its records. Contact us through the Get in Touch page with a privacy request concerning this site.
Changes to This Notice
We may revise this notice as site features, vendors or legal duties change. The revised version takes effect when posted here. Reviewing this page from time to time is the best way to see the current terms.