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Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of Montclair Residents Directory, a private reference to public sources. By using the site, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

1. What This Website Is

Montclair Residents Directory is a privately operated reference. It describes and links to public rolls, record indexes, and directory collections relevant to Montclair and San Bernardino County, California. The site does not host government records and is not affiliated with the City of Montclair, a county or state office, a court, or a records custodian.


2. Rules for Using This Site

Use the site only in a lawful, respectful way. You may not use this site or an external result reached 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 under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Neither this site's material nor a result from a linked tool is a consumer report. Do not use either to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another purpose regulated by the FCRA.


4. Links to Outside Sites

County and state portals, courts, libraries, archives, and third-party services have separate terms and privacy practices. We do not control their content, availability, fees, search results, or handling of information you submit after following a link.


5. No Warranties

The site is offered "as is" and "as available." We make no warranty that a page, link, coverage date, record description, or external portal is accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, or suitable for a particular purpose.


6. Limits on Our Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other damages arising from your use of this site or an external resource, including an action taken from an inaccurate or incomplete record.


7. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold the site's operators harmless from a claim, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, that results from your unlawful use of the site, misuse of a linked source, or violation of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The site's original writing, design, logo, and layout belong to the site operators or their licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property law. You may link to a page and quote a short attributed excerpt; copying full pages or systematically republishing the content is not permitted.


9. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these terms by posting a replacement version on this page. If you continue using the site after a revision is posted, you accept the revised terms.


10. Cutting Off Access

We may suspend, block, or limit access when a user violates these terms, abuses a search feature, or threatens the site's operation. We may do so without advance notice where appropriate.


11. Governing Law

These terms are governed by California law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. References on this site to public-record access are informational and do not change the California Public Records Act, Government Code §§7920.000-7931.000, or the duties of the office holding a record. California consumer privacy provisions, including Civil Code §§1798.100-1798.199.100, apply where their requirements and exemptions reach this site's data practices.


12. Severability

If a court finds one provision unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed only as necessary and the remaining provisions will continue in effect.


13. Questions

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