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Terms of Use

These terms apply whenever you use Downers Grove Residents Directory. By continuing, you agree to them. Do not use the service if you do not accept these conditions.

1. Nature of This Website

Downers Grove Residents Directory privately organizes references to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections about Downers Grove, Illinois. No official government records are hosted here, and the site has no connection to a Village, county, state, court, library, or records custodian.


2. Acceptable Use

Use the site only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or anything found 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. 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 and Links

Government portals, sponsored search tools, and other third-party services operate under their own terms and policies. Their content, availability, prices, and data practices are outside our control.


5. Disclaimer of Warranties

The site is offered "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. Accuracy, completeness, and currency are not guaranteed, nor is the operation or correctness of any linked portal.


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. Revisions to These Terms

A revised version may be posted on this page. Using the site after it changes 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. Governing Law

Illinois law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access cited in the reference is governed in part by the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140, together with record-specific restrictions.


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.