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Terms of Use

These terms apply to use of Dallas Residents Directory. By using the service, you accept them. Do not use the service if you do not accept these terms.

1. What This Website Is

Dallas Residents Directory is privately operated. It describes and links to public rolls, indexes, and historical directory collections relevant to Dallas and Dallas County, Texas. It does not host government records and has no affiliation with an office, court, library, or custodian.


2. Rules for Using This Site

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 decisions regulated by the FCRA, including credit, employment, tenant, or insurance decisions
  • 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

Dallas Residents Directory is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Neither its material nor results supplied by a linked tool are consumer reports. They cannot be used to evaluate eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Links to Outside Sites

Government portals, library collections, and third-party services, including sponsored tools, set their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control their content, availability, pricing, or handling of submitted information.


5. No Warranties

The service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. We do not promise that content is complete, current, or accurate, or that any outside portal will remain available or return a correct result.


6. Limits on Our Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of this service or an outside resource linked from it.


7. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold the service operators harmless from claims or demands, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that result from misuse of the service or a violation of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. You may link to a page and quote a short attributed excerpt. Republishing complete pages or systematically copying the content is not permitted.


9. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these terms by posting an updated version here. Use after the effective change constitutes acceptance.


10. Cutting Off Access

We may limit or block access for a user who violates these terms or misuses the service, in our discretion and without notice.


11. Governing Law

Texas law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Texas Government Code chapter 552, the Texas Public Information Act, governs access to applicable government information but does not change these private terms.


12. Severability

If a provision of these terms is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.


13. Questions

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