1. Nature of the Service
Elkhart County Residents Directory is an independent reference to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections associated with Elkhart County, Indiana. No government record is hosted here, and the service has no connection to a court, agency, 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. 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. External Services
Separate terms and privacy rules govern government portals, sponsored tools, and other linked services. Their availability, charges, content, and handling of data are outside our control.
5. Service Without Warranties
The service is offered "as is" and "as available." We make no warranty that its information remains complete, accurate, or current, or that an outside portal will stay available or produce 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. Revisions to These Terms
A revised version may be posted here when these terms change. Using the service afterward signifies acceptance of that 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. Indiana Governing Law
Indiana law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record access described in the directory is subject to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3, and all applicable confidentiality laws.
12. Severability
If any part of these terms proves unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
13. Terms Questions
Send any question concerning these terms through the Contact page.