Data You Give Us Directly
Search Queries
When a name, a date of birth, or a case number is typed into one of the search boxes on this site, that text passes straight through to the outside provider that runs the search. The provider processes the query and returns whatever it holds. We do not keep a copy of those search terms on our side.
Messages and Contact Submissions
If an email arrives, we keep it long enough to answer it. Messages stay with our own team. Nothing is passed to an outside organization unless a legal obligation requires it.
Data We Gather Automatically
Each time a page loads, our servers record routine technical details about the visit:
- The IP address your device is using
- Your browser and the version it reports
- The type of device and operating system
- Which pages loaded and how long each stayed open
- The referring site, when there is one
- A timestamp for every page view
Cookies and Analytics
This site uses cookies, the small files a browser stores on a device. They show us which pages draw traffic and where readers stop reading, and analytics services help roll that information into totals. Cookie settings in your browser can block them at any time. Blocking cookies may change how parts of the site behave.
What We Do With This Data
Visit data serves a narrow set of purposes:
- Keeping the site online and loading quickly
- Passing a search request to the correct partner service
- Learning which pages help readers and which ones need work
- Finding and fixing technical problems
- Serving advertising that may relate to your interests
No Warrant Data on File
This site does not host, build, compile, or sell any database of warrants or warrant records. It publishes general guidance on where Charles County warrant records sit and how to ask for them from the Maryland courts and the Sheriff's Office. The site is 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
Every search box on this site is operated by an outside company. Whatever is typed into one of those boxes is processed under that company's privacy policy rather than this one. Those partners decide how long they keep queries and whether they share them, and we have no control over either choice. Read a partner's policy before submitting a search.
Links to Other Websites
Pages here link out to Maryland court pages, the Sheriff's Office, Maryland Judiciary Case Search, legal aid organizations, and outside search tools. Following one of those links takes you off this site, and the destination's privacy policy takes over at that point. Read it before sharing personal details.
Some advertising partners track activity across sites in order to target ads. That tracking runs on their systems, not ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. Limited information can reach:
- Search partners that handle a query run from this site
- Analytics services that measure traffic and performance
- Advertising networks that place ads on these pages
- Law enforcement or government offices when a valid legal order requires disclosure
How We Protect Your Data
Standard security practices are used to protect what is collected. No internet service can promise perfect safety, and we cannot guarantee that a breach will never happen. We do what we reasonably can to limit what is held in the first place.
Users Under 18
This site is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If a minor has sent information to us, contact us and we will remove it.
Your Data Rights
Records that Maryland government offices hold are governed by the Maryland Public Information Act, General Provisions Article, Title 4, which belongs to the agency that holds the record and not to this site. For anything collected here, you can ask us to:
- Show you what we hold about you
- Correct information that is wrong
- Delete the data we keep about you
- Stop certain kinds of processing
State consumer-protection law may add rights in your situation, and a request to inspect a court or Sheriff's Office record follows that office's own access rules.
Updates to This Policy
This policy can change. When it does, the revised version appears on this page with a new effective date. Check the date below to see how current the wording is.
Effective date: September 15, 2026