1. What This Website Is
Bellingham Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections associated with Bellingham, Washington. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with the City of Bellingham, Whatcom County, a court, or any records custodian.
2. Acceptable Use Rules
You must use the service and anything located through it only for lawful purposes. Prohibited uses include attempts 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. Independent Outside Services
Government portals, sponsored search tools, and other linked services operate under their own terms and policies. Those providers are responsible for their content, availability, pricing, and treatment of data.
5. No Warranties
The service is provided "as is" and "as available," without any warranty. We make no promise that content will be complete, correct, or current, or that an outside system will stay online or produce an accurate match.
6. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site's operators are not responsible for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages related to use of the service or a linked resource. This limitation includes harm arising from decisions based on records found through those resources.
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 from time to time. Continuing to use the service after a revision is posted constitutes acceptance of the new terms.
10. Restricting Site Access
At our discretion, access may be blocked or limited without notice when a user abuses the service or violates these terms.
11. Governing Law
Washington law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Links to public records are discussed in the context of the Washington Public Records Act, chapter 42.56 RCW, but that law does not make this private site a government custodian.
12. Severability of Terms
If one provision cannot be enforced, all remaining provisions continue in effect.
13. Questions
Questions about these terms go through the Contact page.