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Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply to Ridgewood Residents Directory. By accessing or using this privately operated reference, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

1. Role of This Reference

Ridgewood Residents Directory is a private reference service. It discusses and links to public record indexes, rolls, and historical directory collections that may relate to Ridgewood, New Jersey. It does not host government records and is not connected with a government office, court, library, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use

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

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm another person
  • Find a person protected by a restraining or protective order
  • Commit identity theft, fraud, or another unlawful act
  • Make a decision regulated by the FCRA, including a credit, employment, housing, insurance, or tenant-screening decision
  • Scrape, reproduce, or republish content at scale
  • Disrupt the service, its security, or its normal operation

3. No Consumer Reports

Ridgewood Residents Directory is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. ยง 1681 et seq. Neither this reference nor a result from a linked tool is a consumer report. Neither may be used to assess eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-regulated purpose.


4. External Services and Privacy

Government portals, sponsored search tools, and other outside services have their own conditions, charges, availability, and data practices. Ridgewood Residents Directory does not control them. New Jersey's Data Privacy Act, P.L. 2023, c.266, N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.4 et seq., may govern privacy rights and obligations where it applies; consult the relevant provider's own notices for its handling of submitted information.


5. No Warranties

This reference is made available "as is" and "as available." No warranty, express or implied, is made about accuracy, completeness, currency, security, or availability. A linked portal may change, fail, or return an incomplete or incorrect result.


6. Liability Limits

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss arising from use of this service or a linked resource, including a decision based on information located through either.


7. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the site operators harmless from claims, demands, damages, and reasonable attorneys' fees resulting from your misuse of the service or breach of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The original writing, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. You may link to a page or quote a brief attributed excerpt. Republishing full pages or systematically copying the material is not permitted.


9. Updates to These Terms

These terms may be revised by posting an updated version here. Continued use after the revised terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the update.


10. Restricted Access

Access may be limited or blocked, without notice, for a user who violates these terms, abuses the service, or threatens its security or availability.


11. New Jersey Law

These terms are governed by New Jersey law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq., governs public access to covered government records. It does not make this private reference a government custodian or alter the rules of an office that holds a record.


12. Severability

If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.


13. Questions

For questions about these terms, use the Contact page.