1. Nature of the Website
San Mateo People Search is a private reference resource. It points readers toward public records, court indexes, directories, and official lookup systems relevant to San Mateo, San Mateo County, and California. The site does not maintain government records and has no connection with the City of San Mateo, San Mateo County ACRE, the Superior Court, or any other records custodian.
2. Acceptable Use Rules
Your use must be lawful and respectful of other people. Neither this site nor information reached through it may be used 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 decisions regulated by the FCRA, including credit, employment, housing, or insurance decisions
- Scrape, copy, or republish the site's content at scale
- Interfere with the site's operation or security
3. No Consumer Reports
San Mateo People Search is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. ยง 1681 et seq. Content here, including results supplied by a linked or embedded search service, is not a consumer report. It must not be used to decide anyone's eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another purpose subject to FCRA requirements.
4. External Resources
Links may lead to California or San Mateo County government portals, court systems, and independent services, including sponsored search providers. Each outside operator sets its own terms, privacy practices, prices, and access rules. We do not control or accept responsibility for an external resource's content, uptime, results, or handling of data.
5. Warranty Disclaimer
The site is offered "as is" and "as available." No express or implied warranty is made about its operation or content. Records may change, contain mistakes, or omit details, and an official portal may be unavailable. We do not promise that information is complete, current, accurate, or matched to the correct person.
6. Liability Limits
To the fullest extent the law allows, the site's operators will not be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages connected with use of this site or an outside resource. This limitation includes loss tied to reliance on a record, directory entry, search result, or linked portal.
7. Your Duty to Indemnify
You agree to indemnify and hold the site's operators harmless from claims and demands caused by your misuse of the service or breach of these terms. This obligation includes reasonable attorneys' fees associated with such a claim.
8. Site Intellectual Property
Copyright protects the site's original writing, logo, visual design, and layout. You may create links to its pages or quote a short passage with clear attribution. Republishing a whole page, copying content systematically, or presenting site material as your own is not permitted.
9. Updates to the Terms
These terms may be revised by placing an updated version on this page. If you keep using San Mateo People Search after a revision is posted, you accept the revised terms.
10. Restricting Site Access
We may limit or block access, without advance notice, when a user abuses the site, threatens its security, or violates these terms.
11. California Governing Law
California law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. References to access rights for state and local government records concern the California Public Records Act, Government Code section 7920.000 et seq. That statute governs public-agency disclosure duties and does not convert this private site into a records custodian or grant access to exempt, sealed, confidential, or otherwise restricted information.
12. Severability of Terms
If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions will continue in effect.
13. Terms Questions
Questions concerning these terms may be sent through the Contact page.