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Terms of Use

These terms set the conditions for using Lancaster County Residents Directory. By using the service, you agree to them; do not use it if you do not agree.

1. About This Service

Lancaster County Residents Directory is a privately operated reference service. It describes and links to public rolls, indexes, and directory collections associated with Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with any office, court, or records custodian.


2. Permitted Use

Use this service only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or material reached through it, to:

  • Stalk, threaten, harass, intimidate, or harm another person.
  • Find someone protected by a restraining or protective order.
  • Commit fraud or identity theft.
  • Make FCRA-regulated decisions about credit, employment, housing, insurance, or a similar regulated purpose.
  • Scrape, copy, or republish site content at scale.
  • Disrupt the service or compromise its security.

3. No Consumer Reporting Service

This service is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Neither material on the service nor a result from a linked tool is a consumer report. Do not use it to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another purpose regulated by FCRA.


4. Outside Services

Government portals and third-party services, including sponsored-result providers, operate under their own terms and policies. We do not control their content, availability, prices, or data practices.


5. No Warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties. We do not guarantee that its information is accurate, complete, or current, or that a linked portal will remain available or produce correct results.


6. Limits of Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the operators 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 reached through it.


7. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold the service operators harmless from claims or demands, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from misuse of the service or a breach of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The service’s original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. You may link to a page or quote a short attributed excerpt, but may not republish full pages or systematically copy content.


9. Term Updates

We may revise these terms by posting an updated version here. Continued use after that posting constitutes acceptance.


10. Access Restrictions

We may restrict or block access, without notice and at our discretion, for a violation of these terms or abuse of the service.


11. Pennsylvania Law

Pennsylvania law governs these terms, without applying conflict-of-law principles. Public-record requests mentioned by this service are subject to the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law, Act 3 of 2008, 65 P.S. §§ 67.101–67.3104, which governs agency access but does not require a custodian to create or compile a new record.


12. Severability

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


13. Questions

Send questions about these terms through the Contact page.