Travis County Privacy Notice

Travis County Busted Mugshots is a private reference site. This notice covers what information comes our way, how it gets used, and when it might be shared. None of it is complicated. Using the site or its tools means you accept these practices. Outside providers have their own notices once you deal with them directly.

Information You Provide

Provider Search Queries

Type a name or location into a search widget and the query travels straight to the outside company running it. Nothing lands on our servers. We keep no log of those terms at all. Once the provider has your query, its own privacy notice takes over, so that document is the one to read for details on retention and handling.

Messages You Send

Messages sent through a contact channel are different. We may hold onto the note and its attached contact details. That happens for a few reasons. Replying is one. Keeping a thread of the exchange is another. Fixing a technical issue someone flagged counts too. The contents stay inside the organization. Only a legal duty to disclose would push them out.


Technical Data and Cookies

Standard technical details arrive whenever a browser loads a page here, just as they do across the web. This is ordinary traffic data. It supports day-to-day operation. It helps pinpoint reliability problems. It also gives a general sense of how much the pages get used.

  • Internet protocol address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type and operating system
  • Pages visited and time spent on them
  • Referring website, when one is supplied
  • Date and time of the visit

Cookie Settings

Cookies and similar tools play a modest role. They show us how visitors move through the site and keep basic functions working. Browser settings let you block or delete them. Just know that certain features or partner tools may behave differently afterward.


How Site Data Is Used

Everything described above serves one purpose: keeping the service running and making it better over time. None of it goes toward building official Travis County records.

  • Operate and maintain the site
  • Send a submitted search to the relevant partner service
  • Understand which record-source pages visitors use
  • Diagnose performance, security, and technical problems
  • Display advertising that may be relevant to a visitor’s interests

Other Sites and Advertising

Links on this site point to sheriff departments, city agencies, courts, state offices, federal sources, and outside locators. Each of those destinations runs its own show. Once you click through, their rules govern your visit. No public office or third-party locator found through a link here is run by this private site.

Advertisers work differently. Partners may rely on their own tools to track activity across websites and serve ads based on a person's interests. None of that happens under this site's control. It runs entirely under each partner's policies and settings.


Who May Receive Data

Personal information is not sold here. What does get shared is narrow. Data may go to the service providers the site needs in order to function, and it may be disclosed when the law validly requires it.

  • Search partners that process a submitted query
  • Analytics providers used to measure site use
  • Advertising networks that serve advertisements
  • Government or law-enforcement authorities when required by a valid legal order

Reasonable Security Measures

Reasonable safeguards protect the information this site holds. Still, no honest promise of perfect security exists online. Any internet-connected service carries some risk during transmission or storage.


Visitors Under Eighteen

This service is built for adults. No personal information is knowingly collected from anyone under 18. A parent or guardian who believes a minor shared information can ask for its removal through the site's contact route.


Your Information Choices

Want to know what personal details we've tied to a message or site interaction? Just ask. Send your request through the contact route. We'll reply within the limits of the law and whatever data we actually hold.

  • Request a copy of personal information we hold
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of information, where applicable
  • Opt out of certain processing where that option applies

Changes to This Notice

Changes to this privacy notice can happen whenever our practices shift or new legal duties come into play. When that occurs, a fresh version gets posted right here with a new effective date. Keep using the site after that posting, and the updated terms apply to you.