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Terms of Use

These terms set the rules for using Los Banos Residents Directory. Accessing or using the reference means that you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the pages or linked search tools.

1. What This Reference Is

Los Banos Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, record indexes, and directory collections connected with Los Banos, California. It hosts no government records and is not affiliated with the City of Los Banos, Merced County, any California agency, a court, a library, or a records custodian.


2. Rules for Lawful Use

Use the pages only for lawful purposes. You may not use the reference or anything reached through it to:

  • Stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate, or harm a person
  • Locate someone protected by a restraining or protective order
  • Commit identity theft, fraud, impersonation, or another crime
  • Make a decision regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, including credit, employment, tenant, or insurance decisions
  • Scrape, reproduce, or republish the content at scale
  • Interfere with security, operation, or availability of the pages

3. No Consumer Reporting Agency

This reference is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1681 and following sections. Nothing on the pages, and nothing returned by a linked search service, is a consumer report. It may not be used to judge eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Outside Links and Services

County and state portals, courts, libraries, archives, sponsored search tools, and other linked providers set their own terms, prices, privacy rules, and access conditions. Los Banos Residents Directory does not control their content, availability, data practices, or results.


5. No Warranties

The reference is supplied “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. No promise is made that a page, fee, coverage year, link, record detail, or outside portal is accurate, complete, current, secure, or available at every visit.


6. Limits on Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or similar damages arising from use of these pages or a linked resource. This includes a decision made from a record found through the reference.


7. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the operators harmless from a claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorney fees, that arises from your misuse of the reference or your breach of these terms.


8. Copyright and Site Materials

The original writing, layout, design, logo, and page structure are protected by copyright. Linking to a page and quoting a brief excerpt with credit is welcome. Full-page republication, systematic copying, or large-scale extraction is not permitted without written permission.


9. Changes to These Terms

The operators may revise these terms by posting a new version. Continued use after a change is posted indicates acceptance of the revised wording.


10. Restricting Access

Access may be blocked or limited for a user who violates these terms, abuses the pages, threatens a person, interferes with operation, or creates a security risk. This may occur without advance notice.


11. Governing Law

California law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public-record references on the pages include the California Public Records Act, Government Code sections 7920.000 through 7931.000, as recodified effective 2023. The statute's exemptions and the separate access rules for courts, vital records, voter data, and confidential records still apply.


12. Severability

If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed to the required extent, and the remaining provisions will continue.


13. Questions

Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page. Record requests themselves should go to the custodian named for the record.