Privacy Notice

Ada County Busted Mugshots collects certain information when people browse its pages, run a search, or send a message. What comes in, how it gets used, and when it might be shared are covered here. The site points to public sources. These include the Ada County current-arrests report, the inmate roster, and Idaho iCourt. Using the site means accepting the practices described here.

Information Sent by a Visitor

Search entries

Search terms are handled off-site. Any name, location, or keyword typed into a search widget goes straight to the outside company that runs that tool. Nothing is stored here. Nothing is logged on this site's own servers. That provider follows its own privacy notice, terms, and retention rules, which may differ from the ones on this page.

Messages and requests

Emails and contact messages are a different matter. When someone writes in, the message and the reply details are kept only as long as needed to answer the request, protect the service, or maintain a record of the exchange. These messages stay within the operating organization. They go elsewhere only when the law requires disclosure or a service provider or legal matter makes it necessary.


Technical Data Collected Automatically

Like most websites, these pages use standard web logs and analytics tools that capture technical details whenever a page loads. The kinds of information gathered can include:

  • IP address
  • Browser name and version
  • Device type and operating system
  • Pages viewed and time spent
  • Referring page, when supplied
  • Date and time of the request

Cookies and similar tools

Cookies serve a few practical purposes. They help count visits, remember a setting, support a partner tool, or show which pages people find useful. Every browser offers controls to block or delete them. With cookies or related storage switched off, some features may behave differently.


How the Information Is Used

Collected information may be used to operate and improve the service. Common purposes include:

  • Keeping the pages available, secure, and responsive
  • Sending a search request to the correct partner tool
  • Understanding which information is useful to visitors
  • Finding errors, abuse, and technical faults
  • Showing advertising that may reflect general interests

Links and Partner Services

Plenty of links lead away from this site. The pages connect to sheriff and police rosters, booking feeds, court portals, corrections services, federal locators, news outlets, archives, and outside search tools. Once a visitor follows one, the destination provider's own privacy notice governs how data is handled there. This site has no control over that provider's collection, retention, security, or response practices.

Advertising and analytics partners may also track activity across multiple sites for their own reporting or ad systems. That work happens on their systems. It runs under their terms. It should not be read as the county sources sharing anything with this service.


Who May Receive Data

The operator does not sell personal information. It may reach the categories listed below, and only when needed for the purposes described above:

  • Search partners that receive a query submitted through their tool
  • Analytics providers measuring page use
  • Advertising networks and related service providers
  • Law-enforcement or government bodies responding to a valid legal order

Security Limits

Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards protect the information held here. Still, no system connected to the internet is fully secure. No guarantee is offered that a transmission, account, or stored message can never be breached.


Visitors Under Eighteen

This service is aimed at adults. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If a minor has sent identifying details anyway, a parent or guardian can visit the Contact Us page. From there, they can ask that the material be deleted from the operator's records.


Choices and Data Rights

Depending on applicable law and the information involved, a visitor may ask to:

  • Receive a copy of personal information held by the operator
  • Correct inaccurate contact information
  • Ask that information be erased when there is no reason to retain it
  • Opt out of certain processing or communications

Any request should state what information is involved and what action is wanted. Keep in mind that search terms sent directly to a partner provider must be taken up with that provider, since the operator never stores those queries in the first place.


Notice Changes

Revisions can happen whenever the service, its partners, or the law changes. A new version of this notice will appear here with a fresh effective date. Sticking around after a revision means the updated terms govern future visits.