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Terms of Use

These terms apply when you use Kaufman County Residents Directory. By continuing to use the service, you accept them. Do not use the service if you do not agree.

1. Nature of the Service

Kaufman County Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections relevant to the county and Texas. It does not host government records and has no affiliation with a government office, court, library, or record custodian.


2. Lawful Use Rules

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. FCRA Status

This service is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. ยง 1681 et seq. Nothing here, including anything a linked search tool returns, is a consumer report. It may not be used to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Outside Links

Government portals and outside services, including sponsored search tools, maintain their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control their content, availability, prices, or data handling.


5. No Warranty

The service is offered "as is" and "as available," without warranties. We do not promise that content is accurate, complete, or current, or that an outside portal will operate 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. 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. Texas Law

Texas law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access is subject to the Texas Public Information Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 552, along with record-specific confidentiality statutes and custodian rules.


12. Severability

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


13. Questions

Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page.