Hawaii County Residents Directory Hawaii County Residents Directory

Home › Terms of Use

Terms of Use

These terms apply whenever you use Hawaii County Residents Directory. If you do not accept them, discontinue use of the site.

1. Nature of the Website

Hawaii County Residents Directory is an independent reference to public indexes, government records, and historical collections concerning Hawaii County. It hosts no official record and is not affiliated with a court, agency, library, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use

Use this resource lawfully. 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. 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. External Services

Government portals, sponsored tools, and other outside services operate under separate policies. We do not control their content, uptime, charges, or handling of data.


5. Warranty Disclaimer

The service is offered "as is" and "as available," without warranties. Content may be incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate, and an outside portal may fail or return an incorrect result.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. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms by posting a new version here. Continued use after a change means acceptance.


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. Hawaii Governing Law

Hawaii law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Official public-record access remains subject to the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified), HRS chapter 92F, including its exemptions and agency procedures.


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.