Americans.com was designed to balance the interests of all persons and businesses listed in the directory and those who want to find them. As a repository of listing information, we are committed to establishing fair and coherent policies concerning issues such as name sourcing, commercial use of listing information, deleting listings, and so on. This list of policy statements covers these and other issues.

Listing Sources and Accuracy

The listings in Switchboard are licensed from Acxiom Corporation and infoUSA, Inc. The listings are compiled from published white and yellow pages directories and other publicly-available sources. Data updates occur monthly.

Listings Are Not Sold or Distributed

Information entered by users will not be resold or distributed to mail-order list providers or others. We have taken a number of precautions to make programmatic extraction of data from the system very difficult. (It is not possible to search for all residential listings in a given area, because only searches by last name are possible.) Be aware, however, that information you enter and make public is available to Switchboard users as well as to commercial organizations.

Offensive Content

All material, data, text, graphics, pictures, video, messages, listings, advertisements, home pages or other information ("Material"), whether posted publicly or transmitted privately, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Material originated. Americans.com generally does not pre-screen, monitor, or edit Material posted by users of interactive services that may be available on or through the site. However, we reserve the unilateral right to establish and modify criteria for what constitutes offensive Material on the site and to remove such offensive Material.

Americans.com may preserve and disclose Material if required to do so by law, or take any other action it deems appropriate, in its sole discretion, in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably required to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) respond to claims that Material violates the rights of third-parties; or (c) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Americans.com, Americans.com users and/or the public.

Legal Notice

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