Terms of Use

1. Acceptance and eligibility

By accessing or using the Jorai Dictionary website, you agree to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

You must be legally able to agree to these terms. If you use the site for an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to accept these terms for that organization. A parent or legal guardian should supervise use by a minor where required.

2. About the service

The Jorai Dictionary is a digital Jorai–English language resource intended to make words, meanings, grammar, compounds, usage, historical notes, and related cultural knowledge easier to browse and preserve. The website may also provide accounts, announcements, support, contribution checkout, and related educational resources.

The project is an evolving record. Content, features, design, and availability may change as entries are reviewed, corrected, expanded, or reorganized.

3. Accounts and account security

• Provide accurate, current information and update it when necessary.
• Keep login credentials confidential and use a strong, unique password.
• Do not share, sell, or transfer an account without permission.
• Notify us promptly through the Contact Us page if you suspect unauthorized use.

You are responsible for activity carried out through your account to the extent permitted by law. We may require verification before restoring access or changing sensitive account details.

4. Permitted use

You may browse and use the site for personal, educational, cultural, scholarly, and other lawful reference purposes. Reasonable citation, linking, and sharing of short excerpts may be permitted when accompanied by appropriate attribution and when it does not substitute for or harm the service.

Any broader reproduction, redistribution, republication, commercial reuse, bulk download, or creation of a competing database requires written permission unless an applicable license or law clearly allows it.

5. Prohibited conduct

You must not:

• Use the site unlawfully, fraudulently, deceptively, or to harm another person or the Jorai community.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, source code, administrative areas, or data.
• Introduce malware, overload the service, interfere with security controls, or conduct disruptive automated requests.
• Use automated tools to scrape, copy, or extract substantial portions of the dictionary without written permission.
• Impersonate another person, misrepresent affiliation, or submit content you know is false, infringing, defamatory, abusive, or unlawfully private.
• Remove ownership, attribution, copyright, trademark, or cultural-context notices.
• Use dictionary material to ridicule, discriminate against, exploit, or misrepresent Jorai people, language, culture, or contributors.

6. Dictionary content and accuracy

Entries are provided for reference and educational use. The project seeks careful, speaker-informed, and historically grounded presentation, but language varies by speaker, place, time, dialect, and context. Transcriptions, definitions, examples, classifications, etymologies, images, and other material may contain errors or remain incomplete. Many meanings in this first edition are drafts that fluent Jorai readers have not yet checked.

Do not rely on the dictionary as professional legal, medical, financial, safety, or emergency advice. If accuracy is critical, consult qualified speakers, researchers, or other appropriate sources.

7. Intellectual property and cultural respect

The website design, software, arrangement, original writing, images, branding, and database presentation may be protected by copyright, trademark, database, or other rights. Historical source material and community knowledge may have separate ownership, attribution, license, or cultural responsibilities.

No ownership of the Jorai language or community knowledge is claimed merely because it appears in this digital resource. The project aims to respect source rights, community attribution, and appropriate cultural context. If you believe material has been used improperly, please contact us with enough detail for review.

8. Corrections, examples, and other submissions

You retain any rights you already hold in material you submit. By submitting content for possible inclusion or review, you grant the project a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to receive, store, reproduce, edit for clarity or formatting, translate, publish, display, and preserve that material as reasonably needed for the dictionary and related educational work.

You confirm that you have the right to share the material and that doing so does not violate another person’s rights, confidentiality, cultural restrictions, or applicable law. Please identify attribution, consent, dialect, speaker, or use restrictions that the project should preserve.

Submission does not guarantee publication. We may review, decline, remove, annotate, or revise submitted material, and may preserve an internal record of editorial decisions.

9. Contributions and payments

• Contribution amounts, currency, and whether a payment is one-time or recurring are shown before checkout. Current contribution levels are intended as one-time support unless checkout clearly states otherwise.
• Payments are processed through the payment gateway activated for the site, such as PayPal or Stripe. The gateway’s own terms may also apply.
• A contribution supports the project generally and does not buy ownership of the dictionary, editorial control, special access, or a guaranteed outcome.
• Contributions are not represented as tax-deductible charitable donations unless an authorized receipt expressly says so.
• If you believe a payment was duplicated, unauthorized, or made in error, contact us promptly. Refunds, reversals, and charge disputes are handled according to applicable law, payment-gateway rules, and the circumstances of the transaction.

We may refuse or reverse a contribution where reasonably necessary to address fraud, sanctions, legal requirements, technical errors, or misuse.

10. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, shared, retained, and protected. Please review it before creating an account, submitting content, or making a contribution.

11. Third-party services and links

The site may rely on or link to services such as hosting and email providers, payment processors, research sources, or social platforms. We do not control independent third-party services, and their terms and privacy notices govern your use of them.

12. Availability and changes to the service

We may maintain, update, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the site. We aim for dependable access but do not promise uninterrupted, error-free, or permanently available service. Maintenance, security incidents, hosting failures, legal requirements, and other events may affect availability.

13. Disclaimers

To the extent permitted by law, the site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim warranties that are not expressly stated, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted availability.

Nothing in these terms excludes warranties or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, the project operator and its contributors, volunteers, service providers, and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or lost-profit damages arising from use of or inability to use the site.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited only to the maximum extent allowed by applicable law. These limitations do not apply where prohibited, including liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

15. Suspension or termination

We may restrict or suspend access when reasonably necessary to protect users, the project, the community, or the service; investigate suspected violations; comply with law; or respond to security or operational risks. Where appropriate, we may provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue.

You may stop using the site at any time and may request account closure through the contact or support channels, subject to records that must be retained for lawful purposes.

16. Questions and disputes

If a concern arises, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally. These terms do not remove rights or remedies that cannot be waived under the law that applies to you. Any formal dispute will be handled under applicable law and by a court or process with lawful authority over the matter.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the project, service, or legal requirements change. The revised version will be posted here with a new effective date. If a change is material, we may also provide notice through the website or another appropriate channel. Continued use after the effective date means the revised terms apply to future use.