Information You Submit
Terms Entered in Search Tools
When a visitor types a name, place, or other detail into a search box, the query is sent to the third-party provider that operates the tool. Dinwiddie County Released Inmates does not store or log those search terms on its own systems. The provider’s policy and terms govern what happens after the query leaves this site.
Emails and Site Messages
If a visitor sends an email or submits a contact form, we keep the message and the information supplied with it long enough to review and answer the request. We do not share those messages outside the organization unless disclosure is required by law or a valid legal process.
Technical Data Collected Automatically
Normal web operations may record limited technical details whenever a page loads. These logs help maintain performance, understand use, and detect faults. They can include:
- The internet protocol address associated with the request
- The browser name and version used to view a page
- The device category and operating system
- The pages viewed and the approximate time spent on them
- The referring website, when that information is supplied
- The date and time attached to the request
How Cookies Work Here
Cookies are small browser files that can help measure how visitors move through the site and support certain features. A visitor may block or delete cookies through browser settings. Some functions may then behave differently or may not retain preferences as expected.
How Information Supports the Site
The information described in this notice is used only for operating and improving the service, connecting requested tools, and supporting advertising. In practical terms, it may be used to:
- Keep pages available, responsive, and efficient
- Send a search request to the partner selected by the search feature
- Measure which Dinwiddie release and facility pages visitors use
- Identify errors, broken functions, and other technical problems
- Display advertising that may reflect a visitor’s interests
Privacy Beyond This Website
Dinwiddie County Released Inmates links to the Sheriff, MRRJ, VADOC, courts, official release-record sources, and outside search tools. Virginia public-record access may involve the Virginia Freedom of Information Act request rules and the criminal-record provisions, but each government portal controls its own privacy and records practices. Once a visitor follows any outbound link, the destination’s policy applies rather than this one.
Advertising partners may use their own cookies or similar technologies to understand activity across more than one website and select targeted advertising. That tracking occurs through the partner’s systems and is subject to the partner’s privacy controls.
Parties That May Receive Data
We do not sell personal data. Limited information may be handled by service providers or disclosed to an authority when the circumstances described here apply:
- Search partners that receive and process a submitted query
- Analytics providers that measure visits and site performance
- Advertising networks that deliver or measure advertisements
- Law enforcement or another government body acting under a valid subpoena, court order, warrant, or other lawful demand
Reasonable Security, Not a Guarantee
We use common administrative and technical safeguards suited to a public website. Even careful controls cannot make an internet-connected service immune from unauthorized access, misuse, transmission failure, or loss. No statement in this notice promises breach-proof storage or transmission.
Visitors Younger Than Eighteen
The site is intended for adults and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If a parent or guardian believes a minor submitted information, a deletion request may be sent so the material can be located and removed where applicable.
Choices About Personal Data
Depending on the law that applies and whether we can verify the request, a person may ask us to take the following actions concerning personal data held by this site:
- Provide a copy of the personal information maintained about that person
- Correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete
- Delete information when no legal or operational reason requires retention
- Stop or limit certain processing where an applicable right permits that choice
These choices concern data held by Dinwiddie County Released Inmates. A separate request must be made to a search partner, advertising provider, government portal, or other outside site for information held on that organization’s systems.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
This notice may be revised when site practices, service providers, or legal duties change. The updated text will be posted on this page with a new effective date so visitors can review the version then in effect.