Terms and Conditions

Voice of Arabic — voiceofarabic.net

This English text is a translation provided for convenience; the Arabic text is the binding version.

This page describes what stands between you and the site: what you will find on it, what you contribute to it, with whom the rights remain, and when either party may stop.

1. Who we are, and what this site is

Voice of Arabic is an Arabic website on language and literature, running for twenty-five years, owned and supervised by Abdulaziz Alhomaid (عبد العزيز بن حميد الحميد). It offers a library, articles, research papers, videos and tools for researchers, and services that anyone may request. Your use of the site constitutes acceptance of these terms; if you do not accept them, do not use it.

2. Your account

• Enter your name and email correctly, and do not impersonate anyone else.
• Your password is in your safekeeping, and whatever happens through your account is counted against you until you inform us that it has been lost.
• One account per person.

You may ask for your account to be closed whenever you wish, from the Contact us page; what remains after closure is described in the Privacy Policy.

3. What you upload to the site

Whether an article, a research paper, a book, an image or a comment:

• Your right in it remains yours. The site does not take ownership of it, sell it, or license it to others.
• You permit the site to publish it on the site, to show it in its lists and search, and to put your name on it, for as long as it remains published.
• You confirm that it is your own work, or that you hold the right to publish it, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights.
• If you ask for it to be withdrawn, it is withdrawn from the site; but an act already completed on its basis is not undone — such as a certificate that has been issued, or a review decision that has reached the person concerned.
• Test questions that you write in a class you created: by agreeing when you create the class, you permit those of them that have been used to be copied, after review, into the site's question bank, so that other teachers may benefit from them, with your name credited if you so choose. Nothing about your students is copied with them, nor any test or question you have marked "private", nor anything from a class created before this clause, unless you agree.

4. What is not accepted

• Anything that infringes someone else's publication rights, or is attributed to you but is not yours.
• Anything containing insult, defamation or incitement, or an affront to religions or to persons.
• Anything that violates the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Advertising slipped into content, and links placed for promotion rather than for benefit.
• Anything intended to disrupt or breach the site, or to harvest its members' data automatically.

The site's owner may decline to publish whatever he sees fit, withhold what has been published, and suspend an account from which any of the above recurs — and the account holder is notified of this by email.

5. Rights in the site's content

What the site has published from its archive, together with its design and its tools, is reserved to it. You may quote and refer to it, citing the source and the page link, and you may reproduce text for a scholarly or educational purpose. Wholesale copying — such as copying a whole section or emptying the library — requires permission.

Anyone who finds material on the site that infringes their rights should tell us; we will verify the claim and withhold the material if it is correct.

6. Scholarly publishing and peer review

A paper submitted for peer review is kept in a location that cannot be opened from the web, reachable only by its author, the manager of the scholarly outlet, and the assigned reviewer. Review is blind: the reviewer receives neither the researcher's name nor email. The decision to accept or reject belongs to the scientific committee; the site communicates it, and promises neither acceptance nor any particular timeframe.

7. Certificates

Certificates issued by the site attest to what took place on it — attendance, passing a test, or participation — and do not promise accreditation by any body outside it. Every certificate carries a verification code by which its authenticity can be checked. A certificate issued on the basis of incorrect information is cancelled.

8. Services and fees

Researcher services — such as language review and consultation — do not begin until the price has been presented to, and accepted by, the person who made the request. Any fees charged are subject to the Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms.

9. Advertisements

What appears in advertising spaces is an advertisement submitted by its advertiser, and it is not shown until the site's management approves it. The site does not guarantee its content and is not answerable for what lies behind its link; responsibility for the accuracy of the advertisement, and for licensing whatever it offers, lies with the advertiser.

10. Links to other sites

The site contains links to sites that are not its own, given for reference. The site bears no responsibility for their content, nor for any change to them after it has linked to them.

11. Limitation of liability

Effort is made to ensure the accuracy of what is published and the continuity of the service, but the content is not guaranteed to be free of error, nor the service to run without interruption. The scholarly material on the site is offered for benefit and does not take the place of specialist advice. Where a fault in the site causes financial harm in a service that was paid for, the Refund Policy applies.

12. Changes to these terms

They may be amended when the site's services change, and the date of the last amendment is written at the bottom. We will notify you by email of anything that materially affects your rights.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and any dispute arising from them is referred to the competent authorities there.