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Terms of Use

These terms set the conditions for using Town of Rye Residents Directory. By continuing to use the service, you agree to them. Do not use the service if you do not agree.

1. Nature of the Service

Town of Rye Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, record indexes, and directory collections relating to Town of Rye, New York. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with any government office, court, library, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use

Use the service only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or material reached 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. § 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, library collections, and third-party search services, including sponsored tools, operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Their content, availability, pricing, and data practices are outside our control.


5. No Guarantee

The service is offered "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind. We do not promise that its content is accurate, complete, or current, or that a linked records portal will remain available or return a correct 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

We may revise these terms by posting the new version here. Use after an update signifies acceptance of the revised 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. New York Law

New York law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access questions are subject to New York’s Freedom of Information Law, Public Officers Law Article 6, §§84–90, and to the separate rules of the relevant record custodian.


12. Severability

If any part of these terms proves unenforceable, the rest stays in force.


13. Contact

Use the Contact page for questions about these terms.