1. Nature of This Website
Burlington Residents Directory is a private reference that describes and links to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections for Burlington, Iowa. It is not affiliated with any office, court, or custodian, and it hosts no government records.
2. Acceptable Use Rules
All 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. Links to Outside Sites
Outside services and government portals, including sponsored tools, apply their own policies and terms. Their availability, content, charges, and handling of data are not under our control.
5. No Warranties
We provide the site "as is" and "as available" without warranties. No promise is made that the material is complete, accurate, or current, or that an outside portal will remain available and produce a correct result.
6. Limits on Our Liability
As far as applicable law permits, we accept no liability for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages connected with use of the site, its links, or records reached through them.
7. Indemnification
You agree to defend and hold the site's operators harmless from claims or demands, including reasonable attorneys' fees, caused by your misuse of the service or breach of these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
Copyright protects the site's original wording, design, logo, and layout. You may link to a page or quote a short attributed passage, but may not republish whole pages or systematically reproduce the content.
9. Changes to These Terms
We may update these terms by posting a new version here. Continued use after a change means acceptance.
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
These terms are governed by Iowa law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Access to nonexempt Iowa government records is addressed by the Iowa Public Records Act, Iowa Code Chapter 22, but that statute does not make this private website a records custodian.
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.