1. What This Website Is
Benton County Residents Directory is privately operated. It describes public rolls, indexes, and collections concerning Benton County, Washington, but hosts no government records and is not connected with an office, court, 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 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. Links to Outside Sites
Outside government portals and sponsored search providers set their own terms and privacy rules. Their content, uptime, prices, and handling of data are outside our control.
5. No Warranties
Access is offered "as is" and "as available." We make no warranty that our content is complete or current, or that an outside portal will remain available or produce an accurate result.
6. Limits on Our Liability
As far as applicable law permits, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss tied to use of these pages, outside resources, or records reached through them.
7. Indemnification
You agree to protect and hold the operators harmless from claims, demands, and reasonable legal fees caused by your misuse of the service or breach of these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
Copyright protects the original writing, design, logo, and layout. You may link to a page or quote a short attributed excerpt, but may not republish full pages or copy the content systematically.
9. Changes to These Terms
A revised version posted here may replace these terms. Continued use after publication signals acceptance of the revision.
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
Washington law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Public agency records referenced here are generally administered under the Washington Public Records Act, chapter 42.56 RCW; court records follow GR 31 and GR 31.1.
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.