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Terms of Use

These terms apply when you use Roanoke Residents Directory. By using the site, you accept them. If you do not accept these terms, do not use the site.

1. About This Reference

Roanoke Residents Directory is privately operated. It identifies and links to public record indexes, local directories, and collection sources relevant to Roanoke, Virginia. It does not host government records and is not connected to any government office, court, library, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use

Use this site only for lawful purposes. You may not use this site or information found through it to:

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm another person
  • Locate a person protected by a restraining or protective order
  • Commit identity theft, fraud, or another unlawful act
  • Make an FCRA-regulated decision about credit, employment, tenant, or insurance
  • Scrape, copy, or republish site content at scale
  • Interfere with site operations or security

3. Not a Consumer Reporting Agency

Roanoke Residents Directory is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §1681 et seq. No information here, or returned by a linked search service, is a consumer report. It may not be used to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-regulated purpose.


4. External Services

Government portals, library collections, and third-party services, including sponsored search tools, operate under their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control their content, availability, prices, or data handling.


5. No Warranties

The site is offered “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. We do not guarantee that content is complete, accurate, current, or that a linked portal will function or return a correct result.


6. Liability Limits

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other damages arising from use of this site or a linked resource, including decisions made from information found through them.


7. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the site operators from claims or demands, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from your misuse of the site or breach of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The site's original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Brief quotations with attribution and links are welcome. Republishing whole pages or systematically copying the content is not permitted.


9. Changes to Terms

We may revise these terms by publishing an updated version here. Continued use after publication constitutes acceptance of the revision.


10. Access Restrictions

We may suspend, block, or limit access, without notice, for a user who violates these terms or misuses the site.


11. Governing Law

Virginia law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public records referenced on the site are subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Va. Code §2.2-3704, and its exemptions. Virginia consumer-data rights are governed, where applicable, by the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Va. Code Title 59.1, Chapter 53.


12. Severability

If a provision of these terms cannot be enforced, the remaining provisions remain effective.


13. Questions

Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page. Repeated conduct intended or known to cause reasonable fear can violate Virginia's stalking statute, Va. Code §18.2-60.3.