Hardin County Busted Mugshots is privately owned and has no affiliation with a government body, sheriff, jail, court, or corrections department. Neither this site nor its advertising partners provides a consumer-reporting, private-investigation, credit, employment, insurance, or tenant-screening service. The site is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Nature of the Site
This is an independent reference site. It does not hold official booking records, control a government roster, confirm a person’s custody, release anyone, or submit documents to a public office. It also does not make a booking allegation into a court finding.
The site points visitors toward publicly identified Hardin County and Tennessee record resources, and it may connect visitors to independent research tools. Official custodians, not this site, determine whether a record exists, may be released, or has been corrected.
Acceptable Use
You may use the site only in a lawful and respectful way. In using it, you agree that you will not:
- Break a law or encourage another person to do so.
- Use information to stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate, or harm someone.
- Use the site’s information for hiring, housing, lending, insurance, licensing, or similar screening decisions.
- Attempt to bypass security, gain unauthorized access, or probe site infrastructure.
- Use bots, scrapers, automated queries, or other tools to collect or interfere with site content without written permission.
- Disrupt the site or prevent another person from using it.
FCRA-Prohibited Uses
Hardin County Busted Mugshots is not a consumer reporting agency, and it does not furnish background checks, consumer reports, or credit reports. Its advertising and search partners do not make the site an FCRA-covered screening service. You agree not to use any information found here or through a linked tool for a purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, including:
- Making a hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment decision.
- Evaluating a person for housing, tenancy, or a lease.
- Determining creditworthiness, insurance eligibility, or insurance rates.
- Deciding eligibility for a license, permit, government benefit, or other comparable opportunity.
- Any other use covered by the FCRA or a comparable consumer-reporting rule.
Links and Other Operators
Links may lead to public offices, record custodians, courts, locator services, and third-party tools. Examples include the Hardin County Sheriff Department, the sheriff’s inmate-information page, Tennessee SAVIN/VINE, the TDOC FOIL locator, and the Tennessee court clerk directory. Those operators control their own records, uptime, security, content, fees, terms, and privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement or a guarantee that an outside service is current or suitable for a particular question.
Services Provided As Is
The site and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not warrant:
- That information is complete, accurate, current, or available for every person or event.
- That access will be uninterrupted, timely, or free from errors.
- That the site, its code, or transmitted material will be free from defects, vulnerabilities, or harmful components.
- That a third-party search provider will return complete, accurate, or useful results.
Custody status, public-record access, contacts, and court information can change without notice. Nothing on this site is an official statement from the Hardin County Sheriff Department, HCCF, TDOC, or a Tennessee court.
Limits of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Hardin County Busted Mugshots and its owners, contributors, and service providers will not be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from your use of, inability to use, or reliance on the site or an outside link.
Your Duty to Indemnify
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Hardin County Busted Mugshots, its owners, contributors, and service providers from claims, losses, damages, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees arising from your use of the site, your breach of these terms, or your violation of another person’s rights or applicable law.
Site Ownership
Unless stated otherwise, the site’s text, design, graphics, logo, code, and compilation are owned by Hardin County Busted Mugshots or its content partners and are protected by applicable intellectual-property law. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from that material without prior written permission.
Term Updates
We may change these Terms & Conditions at any time. A revision becomes effective when it is posted here. Your continued use after that posting indicates acceptance of the revised terms.
Access May Be Limited
We may suspend, restrict, or end access to the site or any feature at any time, with or without notice, and for any reason permitted by law.
Tennessee Law Applies
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from these terms or use of the site must be brought in a court located in Tennessee, unless applicable law requires another forum.
Severability
If a court finds one part of these terms invalid or unenforceable, that part will be enforced only to the extent allowed, and the remaining provisions will continue in effect.
Questions About These Terms
Questions about these Terms & Conditions may be sent through the Contact Us page. Questions about an official Hardin County record should instead be directed to the agency or court that created it.