1. Nature of the Service
Summerville Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, record indexes, and local-history collections connected to Summerville, South Carolina. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with a Town, county, state agency, court, library, or custodian.
2. Acceptable Use
Use the service only for lawful purposes. You may not use it or any material reached through it to:
- Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm a person.
- Locate a person protected by a restraining or protective order.
- Commit identity theft, fraud, or another unlawful act.
- Make a decision regulated by the FCRA.
- Scrape, copy, or republish the service at scale.
- Interfere with the service’s operation or security.
3. No Consumer Reports
This service is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Nothing here, including a result supplied by a linked tool, is a consumer report or may be used for a credit, employment, housing, insurance, or other FCRA-regulated decision.
4. Outside Resources
Government portals, archives, and sponsored tools have their own terms and privacy policies. We do not control their content, uptime, prices, results, or information practices.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties
The service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. We do not promise that a page, link, record description, or external portal will be complete, accurate, current, or uninterrupted.
6. Limits of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other damages arising from use of this service or an outside resource, including choices made from a record or index.
7. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold the operators harmless from claims, demands, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from misuse of the service or a breach of these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
The original writing, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Linking to a page and quoting a brief attributed excerpt is permitted. Republishing full pages or systematically copying the content is not permitted.
9. Term Changes
These terms may be changed by posting an updated version here. Continued use after that posting means the updated terms are accepted.
10. Access Restrictions
We may restrict or block access when a user violates these terms or misuses the service. This may occur without advance notice.
11. South Carolina Law
These terms are governed by the laws of South Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access questions are subject to the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, S.C. Code Ann. §§ 30-4-10 et seq., and to the rules of the custodian that holds the record.
12. Severability
If a provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.
13. Questions
Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page.