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Terms of Use

These terms apply when you use Bristol Residents Directory. Continued use means you accept them. Do not use the site if you do not agree.

1. What Bristol Residents Directory Provides

Bristol Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, record indexes, and directory collections connected with Bristol, Connecticut. It explains routes to the Bristol Town Clerk, assessor, GIS, registrars, courts, state agencies, library, and archives. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with any office, court, or records custodian.


2. Lawful Use Rules

Use the reference only for lawful purposes. You may not use the pages or anything reached through them 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. No Consumer Reporting Service

Bristol Residents Directory is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Neither these pages nor a result from a linked search tool is a consumer report. Nothing returned may be used to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another purpose regulated by the FCRA.


4. External Links

Government portals and other services, including sponsored search tools, set their own terms and privacy rules. Bristol Residents Directory does not control their content, availability, prices, or data practices and is not responsible for them.


5. No Warranty

The site is supplied “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. No promise is made that a Bristol source description is accurate, complete, or current, or that an external portal will work or return a correct result.


6. Liability Limits

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of the site or a linked resource, including a decision based on a record found through it.


7. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the operators harmless from a claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arises from misuse of the site or a violation of these terms.


8. Site Content

The original writing, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Linking to a page and quoting a brief attributed excerpt is welcome. Republishing complete pages or copying the content systematically is not permitted.


9. Changes

A revised version may be posted here at any time. Use of Bristol Residents Directory after the revision is posted signifies acceptance of the changed terms.


10. Access Restrictions

Access may be blocked or limited for a user who violates these terms or abuses the site. The operators may take that step at their discretion and without advance notice.


11. Governing Law

These terms are governed by Connecticut law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record references on the site point to Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act, Chapter 14, Connecticut General Statutes §§1-200 through 1-242, while record-specific eligibility and exemptions still control. The state’s Data Privacy Act applies to covered consumer-data rights where its scope reaches the operator or activity, and it does not replace public-record access rules.


12. Severability

If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.


13. Questions

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