Information You Provide
A name, phone number, or address entered into a search form is submitted to the outside provider that supplies results. Gaston Residents Directory does not retain a separate copy of those searches. If you contact us, we receive the contents of your message and use them to respond.
Automatic Technical Data
Like most hosted websites, the service may create routine logs containing an IP address, browser information, page requests, and time stamps. We use aggregate information to operate and improve the reference. Cookies or similar tools may support basic analytics and, where applicable, advertising measurement.
What We Do With This Data
That limited data supports site operation, error review, traffic measurement, and content maintenance. We do not sell lists of visitors or create individual visitor profiles.
Links to Other Websites
Links lead to Gaston County and North Carolina portals, libraries, archives, and third-party services. A linked service controls information submitted on its own pages under its own policy. This also applies to sponsored search results supplied by another company.
Who Might See Your Data
Hosting and support providers may process server logs on our behalf. Analytics or advertising partners can receive the automatic information described above. We disclose information only when valid legal process requires it.
How We Protect Your Data
The site runs over an encrypted connection and logs are kept only as long as the purposes above need them. There are no accounts here, so no password or profile of yours exists on this site to be exposed.
Users Under 18
The site is meant for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18; if you believe a minor has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your Information Choices
Rights to access, correct, or delete website-held personal data can depend on where you live. The research supporting this reference did not identify a North Carolina comprehensive consumer-privacy statute that creates one universal deletion route for public-record material. Because we keep little information, a request generally involves checking the contact mailbox and available logs. Use the Contact page to ask. Records held by North Carolina, Gaston County, or city custodians remain outside our control and must be addressed with that office.
Updates to This Policy
A revised policy will appear here. Continued use after the revised version is posted indicates acceptance of it.