Data You Give Us Directly
Search Queries
When you enter a name or a date of birth into a search box on this site, that text goes straight to the third-party provider running the search. The provider processes the query and returns the results. Nothing you type into those boxes is stored or logged on our side.
Messages and Contact Submissions
If you email us, we keep the message so we can write back. It stays with our team and is not shared outside our organization unless a legal obligation requires it.
Data We Gather Automatically
Each time a page loads, our servers record a set of technical details about the visit:
- Which pages you opened and how long each one stayed on screen
- Your device type and operating system
- The IP address assigned to your device
- The browser you used and its version
- Timestamps for each page view
- The site that referred you here, when there is one
Cookies and Analytics
This site uses cookies, which are small files placed on your device. They tell us how visitors move through the pages, which pages draw the most traffic, and where readers tend to leave. Analytics services help us group that traffic data into something readable. You can block cookies in your browser settings at any time, though some parts of the site may behave differently if you do.
What We Do With This Data
Technical data serves a small set of practical purposes. It keeps the site working and shows which pages are worth keeping. The list below covers what the data is used for:
- Routing your search requests to the right partner service
- Keeping the site online, current, and quick to load
- Identifying which pages are useful and which need work
- Diagnosing and fixing technical problems
- Showing advertising that may match your interests
No Warrant Data on File
This site does not host, compile, maintain, or sell any database of warrants or personal warrant records. What it publishes is general guidance about where McLeod County warrant records are held and how to check them through the sheriff's office, the District Court, the city agencies, and a written records request. This site is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and nothing collected about visitors is assembled into consumer reports or files about third parties.
Third-Party Search Partners
Search boxes on this site are operated by outside companies. Anything you type into one of those tools is processed under that partner's own privacy policy rather than this one. Those partners set their own retention and sharing practices, and we do not control them. Read the partner's policy before you submit a search.
Links to Other Websites
This site links out to sheriff's office pages, court portals, legal aid organizations, and third-party search tools. Following one of those links takes you off this site, and the destination's privacy policy takes over from there. Read it before you share personal details.
Some advertising partners may track activity across sites in order to target ads. That tracking runs on their systems rather than ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. Limited information may reach:
- Analytics services that measure traffic and performance
- Search partners that handle the queries you run here
- Ad networks that place advertising on these pages
- Government or law enforcement bodies when a valid legal order requires disclosure
How We Protect Your Data
We apply standard security practices to the data this site collects. No system connected to the internet is invulnerable, so we cannot promise that a breach will never occur, but we take reasonable steps to prevent one.
Users Under 18
This site is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has sent us data, contact us and we will remove it.
Your Data Rights
Depending on where you live, state privacy and consumer-protection law may give you rights over your data. Minnesota's Government Data Practices Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 13, governs how state agencies and local government offices in this state handle data about you, and it is the law that applies when you ask a county office for a record. For this site's own data, you can at any time:
- Request a copy of what we hold about you
- Ask us to correct information that is wrong
- Ask us to delete your data
- Opt out of certain kinds of processing
Updates to This Policy
This privacy policy may change as the site does. When it changes, the revised version appears on this page with a new effective date below. Check back if you want to follow how your information is handled.
Effective date: September 15, 2026