Home › Terms of Use

Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern access to Hancock County Busted Mugshots. The pages are a private reference service for locating official records resources, not a government office or a substitute for the sheriff, jail, court, police department, or corrections agency. Using the service means accepting these terms. Do not use it if you do not agree.

Hancock County Busted Mugshots is privately owned and has no affiliation with any government body, sheriff, jail, or corrections department. Neither this service nor its advertising partners provides FCRA-covered services. The pages point visitors toward Hancock County and Illinois records resources; they are not a private investigation firm or a consumer reporting agency.

What the Service Is

This is a reference site. It stores no official jail, booking, arrest, court, or corrections record and cannot confirm custody or release a person. It points to government offices, court systems, archives, local reporting, and outside research tools.

Illinois public-record access is controlled by the responsible agency and applicable law, including the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. A link here does not make the linked source part of this service.

Acceptable Use

Visitors agree to use the service lawfully and with respect for other people. They must not:

  • Break a law or violate another person's rights while using the pages.
  • Stalk, harass, threaten, or intimidate a person named in a public record.
  • Use content to make hiring, firing, housing, lending, insurance, licensing, or other eligibility decisions.
  • Attempt unauthorized access to the pages, tools, accounts, or infrastructure.
  • Run bots, scrapers, or automated requests that burden or copy the service.
  • Interfere with availability or disrupt another visitor's use.

FCRA Restrictions

Hancock County Busted Mugshots is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It does not provide background checks, credit reports, or consumer reports, and neither it nor its advertising partners offers screening services. Visitors agree not to use any information or linked tool for an FCRA-covered purpose, including:

  • Hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment decisions.
  • Tenant or housing screening.
  • Creditworthiness, lending, or insurance-premium decisions.
  • Licensing, permits, or government-program eligibility.
  • Any other purpose regulated by the FCRA.

Outside Links and Tools

The pages link to sheriff and police sites, jail information, court portals, IDOC, BOP, ICE, VINE, archives, legal forms, local media, and third-party tools. Those providers control their own content, prices, data handling, terms, and uptime. A link is not an endorsement or a warranty. Review the destination terms before submitting information or paying a fee.

No Warranties

The service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent allowed by law, no warranty is made that the pages or links will be:

  • Accurate, complete, current, or free of errors.
  • Available without interruption.
  • Free of bugs, security weaknesses, or harmful code.
  • Complete in the results returned by a partner tool.

Custody status and public records change. Nothing here is an official statement from a Hancock County agency or another government body.

Liability Limits

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Hancock County Busted Mugshots and the people who operate it are not liable for losses or damages arising from access to, reliance on, or inability to use the service, linked pages, partner tools, or information supplied by a third party.

Indemnification

A visitor agrees to defend and hold harmless Hancock County Busted Mugshots, its operators, and its partners from claims, damages, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from that visitor's use of the service, violation of these terms, violation of law, or violation of another person's rights.

Intellectual Property

Unless a source is identified as belonging to another owner, the text, design, graphics, logo, and code used for Hancock County Busted Mugshots belong to the operator or its content partners. No visitor may copy, republish, distribute, alter, or create a derivative service from those materials without written permission. Government and news sources retain their own rights.

Changes to These Terms

These terms may be changed at any time. A new version becomes effective when posted unless a later effective date is stated. Continued access after posting means the visitor accepts the revised version.

Access May End

Access to all or part of the service may be limited, suspended, or blocked at any time and for any reason, with or without notice. This includes access limited because of abuse, automated traffic, security concerns, or a breach of these terms.

Illinois Governing Law

Illinois law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. A dispute must be brought in a court located in Illinois, unless applicable law requires another forum. Illinois public-record and correction rules, including 815 ILCS 505/2QQQ for certain publisher correction fees, remain matters for the responsible agency or publisher.

Severability

If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. The affected language will be narrowed or adjusted only as much as needed to make it enforceable.

Questions

Questions about these terms may be sent through Contact Us. Questions about custody, a booking record, a warrant, or a court case must go to the government office or court that holds the record.