Data You Give Us Directly
Text entered into a name, phone, or address search is sent to the third-party provider that supplies the results. Watsonville Residents Directory does not keep a copy of the search on its own servers. If you contact us, the mailbox receives the information in your message and uses it to answer that message.
Data We Gather Automatically
Hosting systems can record ordinary technical logs such as IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and timestamps. Those logs may be reviewed in aggregate to keep the pages available and understand general traffic. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics or, where used, advertising measurement.
What We Do With This Data
Technical data is used to operate the reference, address faults, measure broad traffic, and improve the pages. We do not sell a visitor list or build an individual profile from ordinary reading activity.
Links to Other Websites
Pages link to Santa Cruz County offices, California portals, libraries, archives, and third-party search tools. The linked service controls the information submitted to it under its own privacy notice and terms. That includes any sponsored results provider.
Who Might See Your Data
Hosting and technical service providers may process server logs to keep the reference running. Analytics or advertising partners may receive the automatic information described above. A valid legal demand can require disclosure; absent that, information is not disclosed outside the service relationships needed to operate the pages.
How We Protect Your Data
The pages use an encrypted connection, and logs are retained only for the operational purposes described here. There are no user accounts, passwords, or personal profiles on the reference for an attacker to access.
Users Under 18
The reference is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If a minor has sent information to the contact mailbox, a parent or guardian may ask us to delete it.
Your California Data Rights
California residents may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including deletion and limits on the sale or sharing of personal information under Civil Code sections 1798.105 and 1798.120. The Delete Act, Civil Code section 1798.99.80 and following, created the DROP process for verified deletion requests sent to registered data brokers. Those rights concern data held by the relevant business; they do not let this reference change a county, city, court, voter, deed, or directory record.
Because this reference keeps very little, a request usually involves checking the contact mailbox and available server logs. Use the Contact page to ask for access, correction, or deletion of information held here. Requests to remove a public record must go to the custodian under the California Public Records Act, Government Code section 7920.000 and following, or the other law that controls that record.
Updates to This Policy
When the privacy policy changes, the revised text will be posted here. Continuing to use Watsonville Residents Directory after an update indicates acceptance of the new wording.