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Terms of Use

These terms apply whenever you use Santa Monica People Search. Use of the site signals your agreement. If you reject these terms, you must not use the site.

1. Nature of This Website

Santa Monica People Search is a private reference resource describing public records, court indexes, directories, and official lookup portals serving Santa Monica, California. It neither hosts government records nor has any affiliation with a government agency, court, or custodian.


2. Acceptable Use Rules

You must use the site and information reached through it lawfully. Prohibited conduct includes using either to:

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm any person
  • Locate a person 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. No Consumer Reports

We are not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. ยง 1681 et seq. Neither site content nor results supplied by a linked search tool constitute a consumer report. None may be used to decide eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or any other FCRA-regulated purpose.


4. External Websites

Government portals, sponsored tools, and other outside services have terms and policies of their own. We do not control their content, uptime, prices, or treatment of submitted data.


5. Warranty Disclaimer

The site is offered "as is" and "as available." We disclaim express and implied warranties and do not promise that information is current, accurate, or complete. No linked portal is guaranteed to remain available or produce a correct result.


6. Liability Limits

To the fullest extent the law permits, we are not responsible for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages tied to use of the site, a linked service, or a decision based on a located record.


7. Indemnity

You agree to protect and hold the site's operators harmless against claims and demands, including reasonable attorneys' fees, caused by your misuse or breach of these terms.


8. Site Intellectual Property

Copyright protects the site's original wording, design, logo, and layout. Links and short attributed quotations are allowed. Republishing full pages or systematically copying content is not.


9. Revisions to Terms

A replacement version may be posted here at any time. Continuing to use the site after publication means you accept that revision.


10. Restricting Access

We may restrict or block a user who abuses the site or violates these terms, at our discretion and without advance notice.


11. California Governing Law

California law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. References to government-record access concern the California Public Records Act, California Government Code division 10, title 1, chapter 3.5, including the response determination described in section 7922.535.


12. Severability

If one term cannot be enforced, every remaining term continues in effect.


13. Questions

For questions about these terms, visit our Contact page.