CrimeAlerts.us policy
Privacy Policy
How CrimeAlerts.us handles address searches, analytics, logs, and SpotCrime alert handoffs.
Last updated: June 3, 2026. This Privacy Policy explains how CrimeAlerts.us handles address and ZIP searches, technical logs, analytics, and handoffs to SpotCrime and other third-party services.
What CrimeAlerts.us collects
- Search inputs. We process the address, city, ZIP code, radius, or similar location query you enter so we can generate a crime map and safety profile.
- Approximate derived location. We may geocode a search into latitude/longitude, ZIP/ZCTA centroid, city, county, and state context.
- Report data. We request nearby incident data, source notes, FBI/UCR state context, regional FBI public notices, and related analytics needed to display the report.
- Technical data. Hosting, security, and analytics providers may process IP address, user agent, referring URL, timestamps, error logs, device/browser information, and basic usage events.
How we use information
- Generate the address or ZIP safety profile you request.
- Display maps, recent incident rows, trend windows, source links, and report caveats.
- Improve site reliability, security, performance, and abuse prevention.
- Measure aggregate usage such as which pages are viewed and whether users continue to SpotCrime alert signup.
- Troubleshoot errors and maintain the service.
SpotCrime and alert signup
CrimeAlerts.us is an independent SpotCrime affiliate and routes users to SpotCrime for free crime alert signup. If you click a SpotCrime link, SpotCrime may receive campaign parameters and any information you enter on SpotCrime. SpotCrime’s site, forms, emails, cookies, and privacy practices are governed by SpotCrime’s own policies, not this page.
Third-party services and public sources
To operate the site, CrimeAlerts.us may use hosting providers, map tiles, geocoding services, analytics/logging tools, OpenAI-generated report review features, SpotCrime data, FBI public resources, and OpenStreetMap-related map assets. These services may process technical or request data as needed to provide their features.
Cookies, analytics, and affiliate links
CrimeAlerts.us may use cookies, local storage, referrer information, UTM parameters, or similar technologies for basic site functionality, analytics, attribution, and affiliate measurement. You can use browser controls to limit cookies, though some features may not work as intended.
Sharing
We do not sell personal information in the ordinary sense. We may share or allow processing of information with service providers that help run the site; with SpotCrime when you choose to continue to SpotCrime; if required by law or legal process; to protect rights, security, and safety; or as part of a business transfer involving the site.
Retention
CrimeAlerts.us should keep address-level search and log data only as long as reasonably needed for operations, security, debugging, analytics, legal compliance, or abuse prevention. Hosting and third-party providers may keep logs under their own retention schedules.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards for a lightweight public web service, but no website, API, or data transmission is guaranteed to be completely secure.
Children
CrimeAlerts.us is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Your choices
You can avoid entering an exact street address by searching a city or ZIP where supported. You can also use browser privacy controls to limit cookies and referrers. If you signed up for SpotCrime email alerts, manage or unsubscribe through SpotCrime.
State privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, deletion, correction, portability, or limits on certain uses of personal information. Because CrimeAlerts.us is a small public-information site and most alert signup occurs on SpotCrime, requests may need to be directed to the relevant third-party service when the data is held by that service.
Changes
We may update this policy as the product, providers, laws, or data flows change. The updated date above shows the latest revision.