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Terms of Use

Use of Monongalia County Residents Directory is subject to these terms. Please leave the site if you do not accept every provision.

1. Nature of the Site

Monongalia County Residents Directory is an independent reference to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections in Monongalia County, West Virginia. We host no government record and have no relationship with any records custodian, court, or public office.


2. Rules for Using This Site

Use the site only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or anything found through it, 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

Government portals and third-party services, including sponsored search tools, have their own terms and policies. We are not responsible for their content, availability, pricing, or data practices.


5. Warranty Disclaimer

The service is offered "as is" and "as available" without any warranty. Content may be incomplete, dated, or inaccurate, and an outside portal may fail or return an incorrect result.


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. Updates to These Terms

A revised version may be posted here. Using the service after publication of a revision signals acceptance of it.


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

West Virginia law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access referenced by the site is governed in part by the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act, W. Va. Code chapter 29B, including its exemptions.


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.