1. The Website's Role
Chicago Heights Residents Directory privately provides references and links to public rolls, record indexes, and historical collections concerning Chicago Heights, Illinois. Government records are not hosted here, and no agency, court, library, or record custodian is affiliated with the service.
2. Permitted and Prohibited Use
You must use the site lawfully. Neither the service 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. Links to Other Services
Separate terms and privacy policies apply to government portals, sponsored search tools, and other third-party services. Their accuracy, availability, prices, content, and data practices remain outside our control.
5. No Website Warranties
The site is supplied "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. We make no promise that its material is complete, accurate, or current, or that an external portal will remain available or produce a correct result.
6. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages connected with this site or a linked resource. This includes harm arising from reliance on a record reached through the service.
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. Copyright and Site Materials
Copyright protects the site's original writing, design, logo, and layout. You may link to pages or quote short passages with attribution, but you may not republish whole pages or systematically reproduce the content.
9. Changes to These Terms
A revised version may be posted here from time to time. Using the site after publication of a change constitutes acceptance of the new terms.
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. Illinois Governing Law
Illinois law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Relevant statutes include the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140, for public-record access and the Personal Information Protection Act, 815 ILCS 530/1 et seq., for applicable personal-information and breach-notice duties. Separate custodian statutes and court rules may add further limits.
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.