Information You Provide
Search entries
Search tools on the site are run by outside partners. Type a name, location, or other term into one of those tools. The query goes straight to the provider that operates it. No separate log of those search terms is kept on this site's own systems. Once the provider has your query, its privacy terms take over and govern how it is handled.
Messages sent to us
Emails and direct messages work a bit differently. A message and its contact details may be kept long enough to reply, keep the thread going, or satisfy a legal duty. Messages stay inside the organization. They go outside only when the law requires disclosure or when rights, safety, or site operations genuinely call for it.
Technical Data and Cookies
Loading a page sends out routine technical details. Nearly every website works this way. Those details help keep the service running. They also show how the site gets used in aggregate and make it easier to diagnose errors.
- An IP address or comparable network identifier
- Browser type, browser version, and language settings
- Device category and operating system
- Pages viewed and approximate time spent on them
- The referring page or service, when one is provided
- Dates and times associated with requests
Cookies and similar tools
Cookies may support a few housekeeping tasks. These include measuring how visitors move through the site, remembering basic preferences, and backing advertising or analytics functions. Your browser can block or delete cookies in its settings. Just know that some features may behave differently once cookies are off.
Why We Use Information
Plain and simple: any information collected here serves ordinary operating needs. It is not used to create or maintain official Stone County records.
- Maintain site performance and basic functionality
- Pass a search request to the partner selected by the visitor
- Understand which source explanations visitors find useful
- Identify, investigate, and correct technical problems
- Support advertising that may be based on browser activity or interests
Linked Sites and Official Sources
External links point to the Stone County Tiger Roster, sheriff and corrections pages, court portals, MDOC resources, public-record forms, and independent search tools. Follow one of those links and you leave this site behind. From that point on, the destination's own privacy notice and data practices control. The county's Public Records Request form is one example; the county administers it, not this site.
Advertising partners may also gather browsing details across websites with their own technologies to serve interest-based ads. That activity lives on the partner's systems. Nothing here changes what a public office owes under the Mississippi Public Records Act framework, including the rules governing records held by a government custodian.
When Data May Be Shared
Personal information is not sold as a product on its own. Still, it can reach the limited recipients listed below when doing so helps run a feature or when a valid legal requirement calls for it.
- Search partners that receive a query submitted through their tool
- Analytics providers that help measure site use
- Advertising networks that serve or measure ads
- Law-enforcement or government authorities responding to a valid legal order
Reasonable Security Measures
Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards protect the information this site handles. That said, no online system is bulletproof. No transmission or storage method is fully secure either. For that reason, no promise can be made that information will never be accessed, changed, or lost without authorization.
Visitors Under 18
Adults are the audience here. The site does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. A parent, guardian, or minor who believes a minor has sent personal information can contact us and ask for it to be deleted where that is feasible.
Choices About Your Data
Visitors can ask about information they handed over directly. Subject to applicable law and operational limits, the requests available to a visitor are:
- A copy of personal information we hold about that visitor
- Correction of information that is inaccurate
- Deletion of information where retention is not required
- Opting out of certain processing where that option is available
Changes to This Notice
Features, partners, and legal requirements all shift over time. So this Privacy Notice may be revised. Any new version gets posted right here with a fresh effective date. Keep using the site after that posting. The updated notice applies to you.