1. Nature of the Website
Watertown Residents Directory is a private reference to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections associated with Watertown, Connecticut. No government records are hosted here, and the operators have no affiliation with a public office, court, library, 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. § 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. Outside Services and Portals
Public-agency portals, sponsored tools, and other third-party services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Their availability, prices, content, and handling of data are outside our control.
5. Information Without Warranties
Access is provided "as is" and "as available." No warranty is made that site content will be complete, accurate, or current, or that an outside portal will remain available or produce a correct result.
6. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages connected with this site, an external resource, or a decision based on a located record.
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 the Terms
A revised version may be posted on this page. Continued use after its publication constitutes acceptance of the changed 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. Governing Law
Connecticut law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. References to public-record access concern the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 14, including §§1-200, 1-210, and 1-212; that law does not change these private terms.
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.