Santa Clara County Court Guide

Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 23, 2026

This policy explains how this independent informational website handles data. It does not apply to the official court website or to third-party services reached through external links.

Information you provide

If you use our contact form, we receive the name, email address, topic, and message you submit. Do not send case numbers, party names, citation numbers, court documents, financial details, government identifiers, home addresses, or confidential information.

Contact-form security cookie

The contact page uses a short-lived, strictly necessary PHP session cookie to protect the form against cross-site request forgery and repeated automated submissions. The cookie is not used for advertising, behavioral profiling, or cross-site tracking and normally expires when the browser session ends.

Technical information

Bluehost or other hosting and security systems may record standard server-log data such as IP address, browser type, requested URL, date, time, referrer, response status, and security events. This information supports operation, abuse prevention, troubleshooting, and infrastructure security.

Advertising and analytics status

At the effective date above, this website does not load Google AdSense, Google Analytics, or another third-party advertising or audience-measurement script. The root ads.txt file does not authorize an advertising seller. If advertising or analytics is introduced later, this policy and any legally required consent controls should be updated before those services are activated.

External services

Official court portals, payment systems, video-hearing platforms, maps, and other external services have separate privacy and security practices. Review the destination website before entering personal, case, account, or payment information.

Data retention

Contact messages are kept only as long as reasonably needed to review the website issue, respond when appropriate, document a correction, meet legal obligations, or protect the website. Session-based anti-abuse data is temporary.

Your choices

You may browse without using the contact form, decline to submit personal information, clear browser session cookies, and contact us about a privacy concern. Because we do not operate the court system, requests concerning official court records must be directed to the court.

Children

This site is intended for a general audience and is not designed to collect personal information from children. Do not submit information about a minor or a juvenile court matter through the contact form.

Contact

Use our contact page for privacy questions about this website. Do not send court documents or sensitive case information.