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Terms of Use

Your use of Hurricane Residents Directory is governed by these terms. Continuing to use the website signals your agreement. If you do not accept them, stop using the site.

1. What This Website Is

Hurricane Residents Directory is a private operation that describes and links to public rolls, indexes, and collections concerning Hurricane, West Virginia. It hosts no government records and is not affiliated with any public office, court, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use Rules

Use this website only in a lawful way. 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. § 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

Public portals and outside services, including sponsored search providers, apply their own terms and privacy policies. Their content, availability, charges, and handling of data are outside our control.


5. Disclaimer of Warranties

The website is offered "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. We make no warranty that its content is accurate, complete, or current, or that a linked portal will remain available or produce correct results.


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. Changes to These Terms

A revised version posted here may update these terms. Use of the site after publication of a revision constitutes acceptance of it.


10. Restricting Access

Without prior notice, we may restrict or block a user who abuses the website or breaches these terms.


11. Governing Law

These terms are governed by West Virginia law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access discussed here is subject to the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act, W. Va. Code §§29B-1-1 through 29B-3-6, along with record-specific restrictions.


12. Severability

If one provision is found unenforceable, every remaining provision continues in effect.


13. Questions

Questions about these terms go through the Contact page.