Terms of use

By using the Người Việt Nam website ("the site", "we"), you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

1. Purpose of the content

The content is provided as reference information about Vietnamese history, culture and customs. We aim to cite and verify our sources, but the content does not replace official documents, expert opinion or legal advice. If you need absolute accuracy (for example administrative boundaries), check the original documents cited in the Sources section.

2. Content licence

• Text written by the project is intended to be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) [TO CONFIRM: the project's content licence, question Q-8 in the PRD]. You may copy, share and adapt it if you give credit, indicate any changes and keep the same licence.
• Text reused from open sources (for example Vietnamese Wikipedia) keeps the licence of that source, stated in each article.
• Each image has its own author and licence, stated below the image. The licence of the text does not apply to images.
• How to credit when reusing: give the article title, the name "Người Việt Nam", a link to the original article and the name of the licence.

3. Content you submit

When you send a suggestion or an error report through the Suggest an article / Report an error page, you confirm that:

• you are the author of the content you send or you have the right to send it;
• you allow us to review, edit and use it to write articles, and if the content is used it is licensed under the licence in section 2 [TO CONFIRM];
• it does not break the law, does not infringe anyone's rights and does not contain malware or deceptive links. We accept links only, not files or images.

Submitting a contribution does not guarantee that it will be published or accepted.

4. Acceptable use

You must not: disrupt or overload the system (for example high-frequency automated scraping), attempt unauthorised access, send spam or automated submissions, or use the site for unlawful purposes. We may limit the rate of access or submissions to protect the system.

5. Changes and removal of content

We may correct, update or remove content at any time, for example when we find a mistake or receive a valid request. How to send a removal request is described on the Contact / Content removal page.

6. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

The site is provided "as is". To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for damage arising from using or being unable to use the site, or from relying on its content [PENDING LEGAL REVIEW]. The site may link to third-party sites; we do not control their content.

7. Privacy

How we handle personal data is described in the Privacy policy.

8. Changes to these terms and governing law

We may update these terms; a new version takes effect when it is posted on the site. These terms are governed by the laws of Vietnam [PENDING LEGAL REVIEW: governing law and dispute resolution].