1. What Newark Residents Directory Is
Newark Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public rolls, record indexes, and historical directory collections associated with Newark, Alameda County, and California. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with the City of Newark, a county or state office, a court, or a library.
2. Lawful and Respectful Use
Use the pages and anything reached through them only for lawful personal research, history, civic understanding, and other legitimate purposes. You may not use them to:
- Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm another person
- Locate a person protected by a restraining or protective order
- Commit identity theft, fraud, or impersonation
- Make an FCRA-regulated decision about credit, employment, tenant, or insurance eligibility
- Scrape, copy, or republish the pages at scale
- Attack, disrupt, or bypass the site's operation or security
3. No Consumer Reports
This reference is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1681 and following. Neither the Newark material nor a result returned by a linked search service is a consumer report. None may be used to evaluate eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another purpose governed by the FCRA.
4. External Links and Services
Newark, Alameda County, California, library, court, and sponsored-search links lead to services with separate terms, fees, availability, and privacy practices. Newark Residents Directory does not control those destinations or accept responsibility for their content or operation.
5. No Promise of Accuracy
The pages are supplied on an as-is and as-available basis. No promise is made that a statement, fee, coverage year, link, office hour, or search result is complete, accurate, current, or available. Confirm important information with the responsible custodian.
6. Limits of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or similar damages arising from use of this reference or a linked resource, including an action taken from a record found through it.
7. Indemnification
You agree to defend and hold the operators harmless from a claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, that results from your misuse of the pages or your violation of these terms.
8. Copyright and Site Materials
The original writing, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Brief quotations with attribution and ordinary links are welcome. Full-page republication or systematic copying is not permitted without permission.
9. Revisions
The operators may revise these terms by posting a new version. Continued use after the revision is posted means that the updated terms apply.
10. Restricting Access
Access may be blocked or limited for a user who violates these terms, abuses a search function, or threatens the operation or security of the reference. The operators may take that action without advance notice.
11. California Governing Law
California law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The California Public Records Act is codified at Government Code sections 7920.000 and following. California privacy duties relevant to data handled by a covered business appear in the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, Civil Code sections 1798.100 and following.
12. Severability
If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to operate.
13. Questions
Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contact page.