Terms of use
These Terms of Use govern your use of lookupplainly.com and the content, pages, widgets, and links available through the site.
Lookup Plainly is an educational publisher. It is not a lookup service, Consumer Reporting Agency, background check provider, identity verification service, law firm, or regulated screening provider.
Acceptance
By accessing or using the site, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the site.
Operator identity
LookupPlainly is operated by LEGITIME DOMAINS d.o.o., Ulica Stjepana Gradića 1, 10010 Zagreb, Croatia. Questions about these terms may be sent to contact@lookupplainly.com.
Educational use only
Lookup Plainly publishes general educational content about lookup tools, public-information limits, privacy, opt-outs, and safe-use boundaries. The site does not provide personalized advice and should not be your sole basis for legal, financial, safety, employment, housing, credit, insurance, or other important decisions.
Not a lookup service
Lookup Plainly does not run searches for readers, provide live lookup results, operate a database of personal records, verify identity, confirm phone ownership, confirm current residence, or provide complete current reports about people.
Not a Consumer Reporting Agency or background check provider
Lookup Plainly is not a Consumer Reporting Agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and does not provide consumer reports, background checks, tenant screening reports, credit reports, insurance reports, identity verification, or regulated-use screening.
No content, partner link, search widget, offer, article, guide, or disclosure on this site should be treated as a consumer report, background check, identity verification, or official record.
No live, current, complete, or verified data guarantee
Lookup-style information can be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, unavailable, or misattributed. Public records can be difficult to interpret. Data broker and directory listings can merge records from different people. Caller ID and phone labels can be spoofed or stale. We do not guarantee that any referenced data is live, current, complete, accurate, or verified.
FCRA and regulated-use prohibition
You may not use Lookup Plainly content, links, widgets, or referenced third-party lookup information for any purpose that requires a consumer report or regulated eligibility process.
- No employment, hiring, promotion, retention, contractor, or volunteer screening decisions
- No tenant screening, housing, lease, roommate, or property eligibility decisions
- No credit, lending, financial, insurance, underwriting, benefit, or eligibility decisions
- No criminal history, background check, identity verification, or consumer report substitutes
- No other regulated eligibility decisions or decisions requiring permissible-purpose consumer reporting compliance
Harmful-use prohibition
You may not use the site or any information discussed on the site to harm, target, pressure, or bypass the privacy or safety of another person.
- No stalking, harassment, threats, intimidation, doxxing, shaming, impersonation, coercion, or discrimination
- No attempts to locate, confront, expose, track, or pressure a person based on lookup clues
- No attempts to bypass opt-outs, privacy protections, address confidentiality programs, safety boundaries, or platform restrictions
- No abusive, false, misleading, or unlawful use of contact channels, forms, widgets, links, or site content
User responsibility
- Verify important information through official, authorized, or professional sources.
- Do not rely on one lookup clue as proof of identity, ownership, residence, relationship, character, safety, or eligibility.
- Do not submit sensitive information unless the receiving third-party site clearly requires it and you have reviewed that site's terms and privacy policy.
- Use official channels for law enforcement, courts, regulators, carriers, financial institutions, medical providers, government agencies, employers, landlords, creditors, insurers, and safety issues.
Public records and data limits
Public records and directory data can be useful context, but they are not always easy to interpret. Information may be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, mixed with another person's data, sealed, unavailable, jurisdiction-specific, or presented without important context.
Opt-out limits
Opt-outs may reduce exposure on some data broker or people-search sites, but they do not erase all public records, remove all copies, prevent every reappearance, or guarantee removal everywhere. Each third-party site controls its own process.
Third-party links, partner sites, and widgets
Lookup Plainly may link to third-party sites, partner lookup widgets, data brokers, people-search services, opt-out pages, regulators, official resources, and other external services. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, results, availability, claims, terms, privacy practices, fees, or handling of information you submit.
Read the third party's terms and privacy policy before submitting information or purchasing a service. Partner lookup tools and data providers may return incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, misattributed, or unavailable data and may not be used for regulated decisions.
Affiliate disclosure relationship
Some links, search tools, or partner offers may result in compensation to the website operator when users click, submit searches, sign up, purchase third-party services, or become leads. Compensation does not change the FCRA, identity, safety, and data-limit boundaries in these terms.
See Affiliate Disclosure for current details.
Intellectual property
Original editorial content on Lookup Plainly, including guides and explanatory text, is owned by LEGITIME DOMAINS d.o.o. or its licensors unless otherwise stated. You may share links to our content and quote brief excerpts with attribution, but you may not reproduce substantial portions without permission.
Accuracy and updates
We make reasonable efforts to publish careful information, but content may contain errors or become outdated as laws, regulators, public sources, third-party services, partner practices, or opt-out workflows change. We may update, remove, or revise content at any time.
No warranties
The site and its content are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the extent permitted by law, Lookup Plainly and its operator disclaim warranties of accuracy, completeness, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and suitability for any regulated or safety-sensitive use.
Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Lookup Plainly and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for decisions, actions, losses, claims, or disputes arising from use of the site, third-party links, partner widgets, or referenced information.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use of the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms.
Contact
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Lookup Plainly is an independent educational publisher. We are not a live lookup service, background check provider, Consumer Reporting Agency, identity verification service, government agency, official records provider, or law firm.
Content is educational only and must not be used for employment, tenant screening, credit, insurance, lending, hiring, or other regulated eligibility decisions. Lookup and opt-out information can be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, or limited by third-party practices.
Questions or corrections? contact@lookupplainly.com
