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Privacy Notice for New Jersey Busted Mugshots

This notice explains what information may be collected when you use New Jersey Busted Mugshots, why it is used, and when it may be shared with another provider. The site is an independent guide to New Jersey county, court, corrections, and archive sources; the records themselves remain with their issuing agencies. By using the site, you accept the practices described here and the separate terms that apply to any outside tool you choose to open. Public agency sites may follow rules that differ from the private services linked from these pages.

Information You Choose to Submit

Search terms

When you enter a name or place in a search box run by a partner, that query goes to the provider operating the box. We do not store or log those search terms on this site. A name match alone does not establish identity, so compare a result with the official agency record before relying on it.

Note: A query sent to an outside search provider is handled under that provider’s own privacy notice.

Messages

If you send a message through a contact method offered with the site, we keep its contents as needed to read and answer it. We do not share those messages outside the organization unless a legal obligation requires it. We do not generally ask visitors to submit sensitive identity documents.

Technical Details and Cookies

When a page loads, routine technical records may include details such as:

  • Your IP address.
  • Your browser and its version.
  • Your device type and operating system.
  • The pages opened and how long they remain open.
  • The referring site, when one is provided.
  • The date and time of a visit.

Cookies

Cookies can help us understand how visitors use the site. Most browsers let you block or clear them, though a feature may work differently after cookies are disabled.

How We Use Information

Information helps maintain the New Jersey guide and its links in several ways:

  • To keep the site working and responsive.
  • To send a search query to the partner that operates that search tool.
  • To see which guides visitors use.
  • To identify and repair technical problems.
  • To display advertising that may reflect general interests.

Outside Sources and Their Privacy Rules

Our New Jersey guides put county, police, prosecutor, corrections, court, State Police, Parole Board, federal, and archive sources first. Local reporting can provide context. Any private index or search partner is a secondary, unofficial lead and may be stale. When you leave this site for an official portal, a county guide, news site, or search provider, that service’s privacy policy applies to what you do there. For covered New Jersey government records, the state’s Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq., sets access rules and exceptions; it does not govern the data practices of this private website.

OPRA covers access to eligible government records held by New Jersey public agencies. It does not set the privacy practices of this private site or an outside search provider.

Note: A private index can retain old material after a county agency changes or removes its own public roster entry.

Some advertising partners may track activity on other sites to select ads. That activity occurs on their systems under their own policies, not through this site’s records guide.

Who May Receive Information

We do not sell personal messages or technical details. Some information may be handled by the services listed here:

  • Search partners that receive the terms entered into their tools.
  • Analytics services that measure site use.
  • Advertising networks that serve ads.
  • Law enforcement or another public body when a valid legal order requires disclosure.

Security

We use ordinary safeguards to protect information we handle. No system connected to the internet can be promised fully secure, so we cannot guarantee that a breach or unauthorized access will never occur.

Visitors Under 18

This site is intended for adults and is not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a person under 18. If a minor has sent information, contact the site operator and ask that it be removed.

Note: The adult-only rule applies even when a public agency separately publishes a lawful record about an arrest.

Requests About Your Information

Depending on the information and applicable law, you may ask us to:

  • Provide a copy of information we hold about you.
  • Correct information that is inaccurate.
  • Delete information when deletion is available.
  • Stop certain uses or sharing where an opt-out applies.

Changes to This Notice

We may revise this notice as the site or its services change. A new version will appear on this page with its effective date.