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Terms of Use

These conditions apply whenever you use Clarksburg Residents Directory. Please leave the site if you do not agree to them.

1. Nature of the Website

Clarksburg Residents Directory privately organizes references to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections for Clarksburg, West Virginia. It does not host government records and has no affiliation with a public agency, court, library, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use Rules

Your use must remain lawful. Neither the site nor information reached through it may be used to:

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm any person
  • Locate someone protected by a restraining or protective order
  • Commit identity theft or fraud
  • Make FCRA-regulated decisions (credit, employment, tenant, insurance)
  • Scrape, copy, or republish the site's content at scale
  • Interfere with the site's operation or security

3. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency

This site is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. ยง 1681 et seq.). Nothing here, and nothing any linked search tool returns, is a consumer report, and none of it may be used to judge eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or any other FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Services Operated by Others

Government portals, sponsored search tools, and other outside services operate under their own policies and terms. Their content, uptime, prices, and handling of data remain outside our responsibility.


5. No Information Warranty

The service is offered "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. No assurance is made that its information is complete, accurate, or current, or that a linked portal will remain available and return correct results.


6. Limits on Our Liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of this site or any linked resource, including decisions made from records found through it.


7. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the operators of this site from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your misuse of the site or violation of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The original text, design, logo, and layout of this site are protected by copyright. Linking to any page and quoting brief excerpts with attribution is welcome; republishing full pages or systematically copying content is not.


9. Changes to These Terms

A revised version may be posted here from time to time. Using the service after publication of a revision signifies acceptance of it.


10. Restricting Access

At our discretion, access may be limited or blocked without notice when a user abuses the service or breaches these terms.


11. Governing Law

These terms are governed by West Virginia law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Access to public records is separately controlled by the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act, W.Va. Code ch. 29B, along with any record-specific law that applies.


12. Severability

If any part of these terms proves unenforceable, the rest stays in force.


13. Questions

Questions about these terms go through the Contact page.