1. What This Website Is
Westerville Residents Directory is a private reference that describes and links to public record indexes, official portals, and directory collections relevant to Westerville, Ohio. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with any city, county, state, court, library, or records office.
2. Rules for Using This Site
Use this site and anything found through it only for lawful purposes. You may not use it to:
- Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm another person.
- Locate a person protected by a restraining or protective order.
- Commit fraud or identity theft.
- Make an FCRA-regulated decision involving credit, employment, tenant screening, or insurance.
- Scrape, copy, or republish site content at scale.
- Disrupt the operation or security of the site.
3. Not a Consumer Reporting Agency
Westerville Residents Directory is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Neither the content here nor a result from a linked tool is a consumer report. It may not be used to determine eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or any other FCRA-covered purpose.
4. Links to Outside Sites
Government portals, archives, libraries, and third-party services, including sponsored search tools, operate under their own terms and privacy policies. We do not control their content, availability, prices, information practices, or results.
5. No Warranties
The site is offered “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any type. We do not promise that content is complete, accurate, or current, or that a linked portal will operate or return a correct result.
6. Limits on Our Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, the 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 based on records located through those resources.
7. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold the site operators harmless from claims, demands, damages, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from misuse of the site or a violation of these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
The site's original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. You may link to a page and quote a brief excerpt with attribution. Republishing complete pages or systematically copying site content is not permitted.
9. Changes to These Terms
We may revise these terms by posting an updated version on this page. Continued use after the update is posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
10. Cutting Off Access
We may suspend, block, or limit access for a user who violates these terms or misuses the service. We may do so without notice and at our discretion.
11. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Ohio public-records requests are governed in relevant part by the Ohio Public Records Act, R.C. 149.43. That statute applies to public offices and custodians, not to this private reference site.
12. Severability
If a provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.
13. Questions
Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page.