Data You Give Us Directly
Search Queries
A name or date of birth typed into one of the search tools here goes straight to the outside provider that runs that tool. The provider processes the query and returns the results. We do not keep or log what you type into those boxes.
Messages and Contact Submissions
If you email us, we keep the message so we can write back. It stays with our own team, and we do not pass it to anyone outside our organization unless a legal obligation compels it.
Data We Gather Automatically
Each time a page here loads, our servers record routine technical details about the visit:
- The IP address assigned to your device
- Your browser and its version
- Your device type and operating system
- The pages you opened and how long you stayed
- The site that referred you, when there is one
- A timestamp for each page view
Cookies and Analytics
This site uses cookies, which are small files a site stores on your device. They show us which pages get traffic and where visitors tend to leave. Analytics services help us group that data. You can block cookies in your browser settings at any time, though parts of the site may then behave differently.
What We Do With This Data
- Keep the site online, running, and loading quickly
- Route a search request to the partner service that handles it
- Learn which pages help readers and which ones need work
- Find and fix technical problems
- Serve advertising that may match a visitor's interests
No Warrant Data on File
We do not host, build, compile, or sell any database of warrants or personal warrant records. This site publishes general guidance about where Dukes County court and sheriff records are kept, including the Edgartown District Court docket and the sheriff's records request route. We are not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and nothing we collect about visitors is assembled into consumer reports or files about other people.
Third-Party Search Partners
The search boxes on this site are supplied by outside companies. Whatever you enter into one of them is handled under that partner's privacy policy rather than this one. Those partners decide 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
We link to court pages, sheriff's office pages, Massachusetts Trial Court resources, and outside search tools. Following any 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 track activity across sites in order to target ads. That tracking runs on their systems, not ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. Some information may reach:
- Search partners that handle the queries you run here
- Analytics services that measure traffic and performance
- Ad networks that place advertising on our pages
- Law enforcement or government bodies when a valid legal order requires it
How We Protect Your Data
We use standard security practices for the data we collect. Nothing connected to the internet is completely safe, though, so we cannot promise that a breach will never happen.
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 promptly.
Your Data Rights
Massachusetts gives the public broad access to government records, and the state's primary route for that is the Public Records Law, G.L. c. 66, § 10, with the exemptions listed in G.L. c. 4, § 7(26). Court records follow the Massachusetts Trial Court uniform rules on public access. Those laws govern records held by agencies and courts rather than this private site, but we honor reasonable requests about the limited data we do hold. At a minimum, you can:
- Ask for a copy of what we hold about you
- Have inaccurate information corrected
- Request that we erase your data
- Opt out of certain kinds of processing
Updates to This Policy
This privacy policy may change as the site changes. A revised version appears on this page with a new effective date, so check back if you want to follow how visitor information is handled.
Effective date: September 15, 2026