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Terms of Use

These terms apply to use of Cornelius Residents Directory. By using the service, you accept these terms. Do not use the service if you do not accept them.

1. Purpose of This Reference

Cornelius Residents Directory is privately operated. It describes and links to public rolls, recorded indexes, and historical collections relevant to Cornelius, North Carolina. It does not host government records and has no affiliation with a town, county, state agency, court, library, or records custodian.


2. Permitted Use

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

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm any person.
  • Locate a person protected by a restraining or protective order.
  • Commit identity theft, fraud, or another unlawful act.
  • Make an FCRA-regulated decision involving credit, employment, tenant screening, insurance, or a similar regulated use.
  • Scrape, copy, or republish site content at scale.
  • Interfere with the service’s operation or 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. Nothing here or returned by a linked search provider is a consumer report, and it may not be used to determine eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Outside Websites

Government portals and third-party services, including sponsored search providers, have their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control their content, price, availability, or handling of data.


5. No Warranties

The service is offered as is and as available. We do not guarantee that content is complete, accurate, current, or available at a particular time, and we do not guarantee that a linked portal will return a correct result.


6. Limit 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 a decision based on a record.


7. Indemnification

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


8. Intellectual Property

The site’s original writing, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Linking to a page and quoting a short passage with attribution is welcome. Republishing full pages or systematically copying content is not permitted.


9. Revisions to These Terms

We may post an updated version of these terms. Use after the posting means you accept the revision.


10. Restricting Access

We may block or limit access, without notice, when a user violates these terms or misuses the service.


11. Governing Law

North Carolina law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The North Carolina Public Records Act, N.C. Gen. Stat. Chapter 132, including G.S. 132-1, 132-6, and 132-6.2, governs access to qualifying records held by public custodians. It does not make this private reference a custodian.


12. Severability

If one provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.


13. Questions

Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page.