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Terms of Use

These terms govern use of Golden Valley Residents Directory. By using this private reference, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site or its linked search services.

1. Nature of the Service

Golden Valley Residents Directory is privately operated. It describes and links to public record routes, indexes, and historical directory collections connected with Golden Valley, Minnesota. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with a government office, court, library, or record custodian.


2. Permitted Use

Use the directory only for lawful purposes. You may not use it or information reached through it to:

  • Stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate, or harm a person.
  • Locate someone protected by a protective order or address-confidentiality program.
  • Commit fraud, identity theft, or another unlawful act.
  • Make a decision regulated by the FCRA.
  • Systematically scrape, copy, or republish site material.
  • Disrupt the security or operation of the service.

3. Consumer Reporting Notice

This directory is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §1681 et seq. Nothing here or supplied by a linked provider is a consumer report, and it may not be used for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or any other FCRA-regulated eligibility decision.


4. External Resources

Government portals, libraries, archives, and outside search services have their own rules and privacy practices. We do not control their content, charges, availability, procedures, or data handling.


5. No Warranty

The service is supplied on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We make no warranty that a page, record description, link, or third-party result is complete, accurate, current, or continuously available.


6. Liability Limits

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other damages arising from use of this directory or a linked resource, including decisions based on a record result.


7. Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold harmless the site operators from claims, demands, losses, and reasonable legal fees arising from your misuse of the service or violation of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The site’s original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Brief attributed quotations and links are welcome. Republishing complete pages or systematically copying content is not permitted.


9. Changes to Terms

We may revise these terms by posting an updated version here. Continued use after a revision means that you accept the revised terms.


10. Restricted Access

We may suspend or limit access, without notice, when a visitor violates these terms, threatens site security, or misuses the information routes described here.


11. Minnesota Law

Minnesota law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-data access discussed on the directory pages is governed by the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 13, along with record-specific access laws.


12. Severability

If a provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.


13. Questions

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