Disclaimer
MongArchive.org is an independent archive and research website. It is not an official archival institution and is not affiliated with any government, university, archive, institution, or organization unless clearly stated.
Materials on MongArchive may include records, citations, translations, oral histories, source notes, research summaries, community submissions, interpretation, theory, or hypothesis. Readers should verify important claims through credible, independent sources.
Content on MongArchive is provided for educational, archival, and research purposes only. It does not constitute legal, medical, financial, or professional advice.
Purpose of MongArchive
MongArchive exists to preserve, organize, and share documented materials related to Mong history, identity, language, records, sources, and related topics.
The website may include archive collections, historical records, maps, documents, photos, oral histories, books, citations, research guides, source notes, reviewed contributions, and other educational materials.
Use of MongArchive
By using MongArchive, you agree to use the website responsibly and not interfere with its archive, research, educational, or preservation work.
- Do not misuse the website or interfere with its operation.
- Do not submit false, harmful, unlawful, abusive, or misleading materials.
- Do not attempt to damage, disrupt, hack, spam, or exploit MongArchive.
- Respect the review process, source standards, copyright rules, and privacy expectations of the website.
Community Submissions
Community members may submit materials to MongArchive for review. Submissions may include sources, records, corrections, oral histories, photos, documents, maps, citations, research leads, source notes, and related materials.
Submitting material does not mean it will automatically be added to the archive or published on the website. All submitted materials are reviewed by the MongArchive team before publication or archive inclusion.
MongArchive may accept, reject, edit for formatting, organize, label, restrict, archive, remove, or request more information for submitted materials.
Submission Responsibility
If you submit materials to MongArchive, you are responsible for making sure the materials are accurate, lawful, and appropriate to submit.
- Submit only materials you created, own, have permission to share, or are legally allowed to submit.
- Do not submit materials that violate copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights.
- Provide accurate source information, dates, names, locations, and context when available.
- Clearly identify oral history, family memory, community memory, interpretation, or uncertain claims.
- Do not present uncertain claims as proven facts.
Review Process
All submitted materials are reviewed by the MongArchive team before publication. Submission does not guarantee acceptance, verification, publication, or permanent preservation.
Review labels may be used to help readers understand the status of submitted materials and archive records.
- Submitted: The material has been received.
- Under Review: The material is being checked for context, sources, formatting, and archive fit.
- Needs Sources: More citation, source, or context information is needed.
- Reviewed: Review has been completed and the material may move to the next archive decision stage.
- Accepted: The material has been accepted for possible organization, citation, or public archive display.
- Not Accepted: The material was not accepted for publication or archive inclusion.
Copyright and Submitted Materials
Do not upload, submit, distribute, or repost copyrighted material unless you have the legal right to do so.
This may include, but is not limited to:
- Books
- Articles
- Photographs
- Maps
- Illustrations
- Scanned documents
- Translations
- Audio or video files
- Oral history recordings
Submitting material for archival, research, educational, or preservation purposes does not automatically remove copyright protection. If you submit third-party material, you are responsible for making sure you have the legal right to share it.
Ownership and License
You retain ownership of original content you create and submit, unless otherwise agreed.
By submitting material to MongArchive, you grant MongArchive.org a non-exclusive, limited license to review, display, store, archive, organize, reproduce, format, preserve, and make available the submitted material as needed to operate and maintain the website.
Third-party materials remain the property of their original owners and should be credited appropriately.
Fair Use and Excerpts
Limited quotations, excerpts, commentary, criticism, review, and source citation may be allowed where permitted by applicable law.
- Excerpts should be reasonable, relevant, and properly cited.
- Full copies of copyrighted works should not be submitted unless you have permission or legal authority to share them.
- When possible, link to the original source instead of reposting full material.
- When possible, provide a citation, lawful access link, and short source note.
MongArchive does not guarantee that any submitted material qualifies as fair use.
Citation and Source Standards
MongArchive encourages responsible sourcing. Contributors should cite books, articles, journals, archives, websites, interviews, maps, records, and other materials when submitting factual, historical, linguistic, or research related information.
Citations improve transparency, credibility, and research quality. Materials without clear sources may be labeled as needs sources, oral history, community memory, interpretation, or reviewed material rather than accepted archive material.
Oral Histories and Community Memory
Oral histories, family memories, and community knowledge may be valuable contributions to MongArchive.
These materials should be clearly identified as oral history, family memory, or community knowledge. They should not be presented as confirmed historical evidence unless supported by reliable documentation.
Prohibited Content
You may not submit or use MongArchive to share content that includes:
- Copyright infringement or other intellectual property violations.
- Defamation, fraud, impersonation, or knowingly false statements.
- Harassment, threats, intimidation, doxxing, or abuse.
- Private, sensitive, or personal information shared without permission.
- Malware, spam, deceptive links, or attempts to interfere with the website.
- Illegal content or promotion of illegal activity.
- Content used to stereotype, insult, harass, or police identity.
Sensitive Topics
Some materials may involve identity, ancestry, language classification, genetics, political history, disputed narratives, or community memory.
These topics should be handled carefully, respectfully, and with clear sourcing whenever possible. Historical, linguistic, genetic, or identity related arguments may not be used to harass, stereotype, insult, or target any person or group.
Removal or Restriction of Materials
MongArchive reserves the right, but not the obligation, to review, remove, restrict, edit, label, or disable access to materials submitted to the website.
Materials may be removed or restricted if they raise concerns about accuracy, copyright, privacy, safety, legality, misuse, or the integrity of the archive.
Copyright Complaints
MongArchive respects the intellectual property rights of others and may remove or disable access to material alleged to infringe copyright in accordance with applicable law.
If you believe material on MongArchive infringes your copyright, contact MongArchive at
legal@mongarchive.org.
Your notice should include:
- Your full name and contact information.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed.
- The exact URL or location of the allegedly infringing material on MongArchive.
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Upon receiving a valid notice, MongArchive may review the claim and remove or disable access to the material as appropriate.
Counter-Notice
If you believe material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may contact MongArchive and submit a counter-notice.
A counter-notice should include:
- Your name and contact information.
- Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
- A statement that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification.
- A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court in the United States and will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original complaint or that person’s agent.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
No Academic Guarantee
MongArchive is intended to support education, research, preservation, and public access to documented materials.
MongArchive does not guarantee that all materials are accurate, complete, lawful, peer reviewed, independently verified, or suitable for citation in every formal setting. Readers should independently verify important claims and sources.
Account and Website Access
Some features may require an account, depending on how MongArchive is configured. MongArchive may restrict, suspend, or terminate access to accounts or features that violate these Terms, submission rules, copyright rules, or applicable law.
Security and Unauthorized Access
You may not attempt to interfere with, damage, bypass, test, scan, disrupt, overload, scrape, spam, hack, or gain unauthorized access to MongArchive, its accounts, servers, forms, data, files, downloads, records, archive materials, or related systems.
You may not upload or submit malware, harmful code, corrupted files, deceptive links, spam, unauthorized scripts, or materials intended to damage, disrupt, exploit, or interfere with MongArchive or any visitor’s device, browser, software, data, account, or network.
MongArchive may restrict access, block activity, remove materials, preserve records, contact service providers, or take other reasonable action when needed to protect the website, contributors, visitors, archive materials, and related systems.
Website, Downloads, and Technical Risk
Visitors use MongArchive, its pages, links, files, downloads, images, documents, media, forms, archive materials, and related resources at their own risk.
MongArchive does not guarantee that the website, files, downloads, links, documents, media, archive materials, or related resources will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, virus-free, malware-free, compatible with every device, or free from technical problems.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, MongArchive.org, its founder, administrators, team members, reviewers, contributors, volunteers, and related representatives are not responsible for any loss, damage, device issue, software issue, data loss, corrupted files, security issue, interruption, error, virus, malware, unauthorized access, or other technical problem that may result from accessing, using, downloading, opening, relying on, or interacting with materials from MongArchive or linked third party websites.
Visitors are responsible for using appropriate security practices, including updated browsers, secure devices, antivirus protection, careful file handling, and personal backups.
Posted Materials and Third Party Misuse
Materials posted on MongArchive may be viewed, accessed, copied, downloaded, cited, shared, saved, indexed, or used by visitors, search engines, archives, third party websites, or other outside parties.
MongArchive may review, restrict, remove, correct, or relabel posted materials when concerns are reported or discovered, including privacy concerns, copyright concerns, inaccurate information, misuse, safety issues, or legal concerns.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, MongArchive.org, its founder, administrators, team members, reviewers, contributors, volunteers, and related representatives are not responsible for how third parties use, copy, download, share, cite, repost, misinterpret, misuse, or rely on materials after they are made available through MongArchive.
Visitors are responsible for using posted materials lawfully, respectfully, and with proper context, citation, privacy awareness, and copyright compliance.
Disclaimer of Liability
MongArchive is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. MongArchive.org, its founder, administrators, team members, reviewers, contributors, volunteers, and related representatives make no warranties regarding the availability, accuracy, reliability, legality, completeness, security, compatibility, or usefulness of materials on the website.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, MongArchive.org, its founder, administrators, team members, reviewers, contributors, volunteers, and related representatives are not liable for damages arising from use of the website, reliance on submitted materials, use of archive materials, downloads, links, files, media, technical problems, security issues, third party use or misuse of posted materials, or inability to access the website.
Related Policies
For additional information about copyright, submitted materials, correction requests, removal review, identity, ancestry, language, and genetics, please review the following pages:
Changes to These Terms
MongArchive may update these Terms of Service at any time. Continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms.