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Terms of Use

Your use of Janesville Residents Directory is subject to these terms. By continuing, you agree to them. If you disagree, stop using the service.

1. Nature of the Service

Janesville Residents Directory is a private reference that describes and links to resident rolls, indexes, and historical collections for Janesville, Wisconsin. We do not host government files and are not affiliated with a public office, court, or custodian.


2. Rules for Using This Site

Use the site only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or anything found 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 (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. § 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. Links to Outside Sites

Government portals and third-party services, including sponsored search tools, have their own terms and policies. We are not responsible for their content, availability, pricing, or data practices.


5. Service Without Warranties

The service is offered "as is" and "as available" without warranties. We do not guarantee that content is complete, accurate, or current, or that an outside portal will remain available or return a correct match.


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. Term Updates

A revised version may be posted here. Use after it is posted signifies acceptance of the new terms.


10. Cutting Off Access

We may block or restrict any user who violates these terms or abuses the site, at our discretion and without notice.


11. Governing Law

Wisconsin law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Government-record access described in the reference is generally addressed by Wisconsin Public Records Law, Wis. Stat. §§19.31–19.39, subject to other laws and recognized exceptions.


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.