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Terms of Use

These terms set the rules for use of Clay County Residents Directory. By using the service, you accept them. Do not use the service if you do not accept these terms.

1. Nature of This Service

Clay County Residents Directory is a privately operated reference. It describes and links to public rolls, indexes, and directory collections concerning people who live or have lived in Clay County, Missouri. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with an office, court, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use

Use this service only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or anything located through it, 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 involving credit, employment, tenant screening, or insurance
  • Scrape, copy, or republish service content at scale
  • Disrupt the service’s operation or security

3. No Consumer Reporting Agency

This service is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Neither this service nor a result from a linked tool is a consumer report. None may be used to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Third-Party Links

Government portals and third-party services, including sponsored search tools, apply their own terms and policies. We do not control their content, availability, charges, or data practices.


5. No Warranties

The service is offered "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. We do not warrant that service content is accurate, complete, or current, or that a linked portal will operate or return correct results.


6. Liability Limits

To the fullest extent allowed by law, we are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of this service or a linked resource, including decisions based on records found through it.


7. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold the service operators harmless from a claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from your misuse of the service or violation of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Linking to a page or quoting a short excerpt with attribution is welcome. Republishing complete pages or systematically copying content is not.


9. Term Updates

We may revise these terms by posting an updated version here. Continuing to use the service after a change means acceptance.


10. Restricting Access

We may restrict or block access for a user who violates these terms or misuses the service, at our discretion and without notice.


11. Governing Law

Missouri law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Missouri’s public-records framework is the Sunshine Law, Chapter 610, RSMo §§610.010-610.028; requests for a record must be made to the appropriate official custodian under that law.


12. Severability

If a provision of these terms is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.


13. Questions

Send questions about these terms through the Contact page.