Data You Give Us Directly
Search Queries
A name or date of birth typed into a search box on this site goes straight to the third-party provider running that search. The provider processes the query and returns the results. We do not store or log what you type on our end.
Messages and Contact Submissions
An email sent to us is kept so we can answer it, and it stays inside our team. We do not pass it to anyone outside our organization unless a legal obligation requires it.
Data We Gather Automatically
Loading a page here produces technical details about the visit on our servers:
- The pages you opened and the time spent on each one
- The IP address assigned to your device
- Your browser and its version
- Your device type and operating system
- The page that referred you, when there is one
- A timestamp for each page view
Cookies and Analytics
This site uses cookies, the small files stored on your device that show which pages draw traffic and where readers tend to leave. Analytics services aggregate that traffic data for us. You can block cookies in your browser settings at any time, though parts of the site may behave differently if you do.
What We Do With This Data
- Routing your search requests to the correct partner service
- Keeping pages loading quickly and the site online
- Seeing which pages readers find useful and which need work
- Finding and fixing technical problems
- Showing advertising that may match your interests
No Warrant Data on File
We do not host, build, compile, or sell databases of warrants or personal warrant records. What we publish is general guidance about where Pipestone County records are held and how to check them through the Sheriff's Office and the county court. We are not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and nothing gathered about visitors is assembled into consumer reports or files about other people.
Third-Party Search Partners
Search boxes on this site belong to outside companies. Anything entered there is handled under that partner's privacy policy rather than this one. Those partners set their own retention and sharing rules, and we do not control them. Read a partner's policy before submitting a search.
Links to Other Websites
We link out to sheriff's office pages, Minnesota court portals, legal aid groups, and third-party search tools. Following one of those links takes you off this site, and the destination's privacy policy then governs your visit. Read it before you share personal details.
Some advertising partners track activity across sites to target ads. That tracking runs on their systems rather than ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. A few categories of information may reach other parties:
- Analytics services that measure traffic and performance
- Search partners that process a query you run here
- Ad networks that place advertising on our pages
- Government or law enforcement bodies responding to a valid legal order
How We Protect Your Data
We follow standard security practices for the data we collect. Nothing connected to the internet is untouchable, so we work at keeping information secure without promising that a breach can 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 shared data with us, contact us and we will remove it.
Your Data Rights
Minnesota law, including the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minn. Stat. chapter 13), governs how government agencies handle data about you, and it gives you a defined set of access rights against those agencies. Because we are a private site, that chapter does not apply to us, and our obligations to you are the ones described on this page. You can still ask us to:
- Fix information that is wrong
- Give you a copy of what we hold about you
- Opt out of certain kinds of processing
- Erase your data
For your rights against a county or state agency, such as the Sheriff's Office or the court, use the agency's own data practices request process.
Updates to This Policy
This policy can change. When it does, the revised version appears on this page with a new effective date, so check back if you want to follow how your information is handled.
Effective date: September 15, 2026