1. What This Reference Is
Santa Clara Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, record indexes, and directory collections concerning Santa Clara, California. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with a city or county office, state agency, court, library, or records custodian. Official routes include the County Clerk-Recorder and the Heritage Pavilion.
2. Lawful Use Rules
Use the pages only for lawful purposes. You may not use the reference or information obtained through it to:
- Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm another person
- Find someone protected by a restraining or protective order
- Commit identity theft, fraud, or another unlawful act
- Make a decision regulated by the FCRA, including credit, employment, tenant, or insurance decisions
- Scrape, copy, or republish the content at scale
- Disrupt the operation, security, or availability of the pages
3. No Consumer Reporting Agency
This reference is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1681 and following. Nothing on these pages, and nothing returned by a linked search tool, is a consumer report. The information may not be used to assess eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another purpose covered by the FCRA.
4. External Websites
County portals, state services, courts, libraries, sponsored result providers, and other linked services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Santa Clara Residents Directory does not control their content, availability, charges, or data practices.
5. No Warranties
The pages and linked resources are supplied “as is” and “as available.” No warranty is made that information is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for a particular purpose, or that an outside portal will work or return a correct result.
6. Liability Limits
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or similar damages arising from use of the reference or a linked resource, including a decision based on a record located through it.
7. Indemnification
You agree to defend and hold the operators harmless from claims, demands, losses, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from your misuse of the pages or violation of these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
The original writing, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Linking to a page and quoting a brief excerpt with attribution is welcome. Republishing a full page or systematically copying the content is not permitted.
9. Changes to Terms
The operators may revise these terms by posting a new version on this page. Continuing to use the reference after a revision indicates acceptance of the updated text.
10. Access Restrictions
Access may be blocked or limited, without advance notice, for a user who violates these terms, abuses a tool, or threatens the reference’s security or operation.
11. California Governing Law
California law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Requests for existing city or county public records may involve the California Public Records Act guidance, Government Code sections 7920.000 and following, but the statute does not turn this private reference into a records custodian. City requests may be submitted through Santa Clara NextRequest when that office is the holder.
12. Severability
If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect to the extent allowed by law.
13. Questions
Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page.