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Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of Garden City Residents Directory. Using the site means you accept them; if you do not, please do not use the site.

1. Nature of the Service

Garden City Residents Directory is independently operated. It describes and links to public rolls, record indexes, and directory collections relevant to Garden City, New York. It does not host government records and is not connected with a public office, court, or records 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. No Consumer Reports

The service is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §1681 et seq. Neither its information nor a result from a linked search tool is a consumer report, and neither may be used to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-regulated purpose.


4. External Resources

Government portals and outside services, including sponsored search tools, operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Their content, availability, pricing, and data practices are not controlled by this service.


5. Availability and Accuracy

The service is supplied "as is" and "as available," without warranties. No promise is made that information is complete, current, or error-free, 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. Updates to These Terms

These terms may be revised by posting an updated version here. Continued use after that posting indicates acceptance of the revised 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. New York Law

New York law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access questions are subject to New York Public Officers Law Article 6, §§84–90, and court-record access follows the applicable court rules, including Judiciary Law §255.


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.