1. What This Reference Is
Hilton Head Island Residents Directory is a privately operated reference to public record routes, indexes, and historical collections relevant to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. It does not host government records and is not affiliated with a government office, court, library, or records custodian.
2. Permitted Use
Use this site only for lawful purposes. You may not use the site, or material found through it, to:
- Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm any person
- Locate a person protected by a restraining or protective order
- Commit identity theft, fraud, or another unlawful act
- Make FCRA-regulated decisions involving credit, employment, tenant screening, or insurance
- Scrape, copy, or republish the site's content at scale
- Interfere with the operation or security of the site
3. No Consumer Reporting Agency
We are not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. Material on this site and results returned by linked tools are not consumer reports. They may not be used to determine eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another FCRA-regulated purpose.
4. External Links
Government portals, libraries, archives, and third-party services, including sponsored search tools, have their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, availability, pricing, data practices, or results.
5. No Warranties
This site is offered "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. We do not promise that content is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for a particular purpose, and we cannot promise that a linked portal will remain available or return correct information.
6. Liability Limits
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site operators are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other damages arising from use of this site or any linked resource, including decisions made from information found through them.
7. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the site operators from claims, demands, and reasonable attorneys' fees resulting from your misuse of the site or violation of these terms.
8. Intellectual Property
The site's original text, design, logo, and layout are protected by copyright. Linking to a page and quoting a short excerpt with attribution is permitted. Republishing complete pages or systematically copying the content is not permitted.
9. Changes to Terms
We may revise these terms by posting an updated version here. Continued use after publication of a change indicates acceptance of the revised terms.
10. Restricting Access
We may restrict or block access, without notice, when a user violates these terms or misuses the site.
11. South Carolina Law
These terms are governed by South Carolina law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 30-4-10 et seq., including §§ 30-4-30 and 30-4-40, is the public-record access statute relevant to requests made to a government custodian. It does not make this private reference a records custodian.
12. Severability
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.
13. Questions
Questions about these terms may be directed through the Contact page.