Romanization.org

Terms of Service

Effective date: July 31, 2026

Welcome to Romanization.org.

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of Romanization.org, including its articles, reference tables, converters, comparison tools, downloadable resources, APIs, and other features or services made available through the website.

By accessing or using Romanization.org, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with them, you should not use the website.

1. About Romanization.org

Romanization.org is an independent reference and tool platform covering romanization, transliteration, transcription, writing systems, Unicode, personal names, geographic names, and related language topics.

The website may provide:

  • Educational articles and reference guides
  • Romanization and transliteration tables
  • Comparisons between different systems
  • Automated text-conversion tools
  • Name and place-name resources
  • Unicode and multilingual-data guidance
  • Downloadable charts or datasets
  • Developer resources and APIs
  • Links to standards, institutions, and third-party sources

Romanization.org is not an official language authority, government agency, standards organization, passport office, immigration authority, library authority, university, translation agency, or legal service provider.

2. Eligibility

You may use Romanization.org only if you are legally able to enter into an agreement under the laws applicable to you.

If you use the website on behalf of a company, institution, organization, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to accept these Terms on its behalf.

Children should use the website only with appropriate permission and supervision from a parent, guardian, teacher, or responsible adult.

3. Acceptance of These Terms

Your access to or use of Romanization.org constitutes acceptance of these Terms and the website’s Privacy Policy and Disclaimer.

Additional terms may apply to particular services, including:

  • Paid subscriptions
  • Premium converters
  • Batch-processing services
  • APIs
  • Downloadable datasets
  • Contributor programs
  • Sponsored content
  • Account-based features

Where additional terms conflict with these general Terms, the terms presented for the specific service will govern that service.

4. Permitted Use

Romanization.org is intended for lawful informational, educational, research, editorial, linguistic, and technical purposes.

You may use publicly accessible website features to:

  • Read and reference published materials
  • Perform reasonable manual conversions
  • Compare romanization systems
  • Copy individual conversion results for personal or professional use
  • Link to publicly accessible pages
  • Quote limited portions of articles with appropriate attribution
  • Use tools within any displayed technical or usage limits

Permission to access the website does not transfer ownership of its content, software, databases, branding, or underlying technology.

5. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to use Romanization.org in a way that is unlawful, abusive, deceptive, harmful, or disruptive.

Prohibited activities include:

  • Attempting to gain unauthorized access to the website, its servers, accounts, databases, or administration systems
  • Interfering with the normal operation, performance, or security of the website
  • Introducing malware, malicious code, automated attacks, or harmful files
  • Circumventing rate limits, access controls, payment requirements, or technical restrictions
  • Using excessive automated requests that impair service availability
  • Scraping, harvesting, or extracting substantial portions of website content or structured data without permission
  • Reproducing or republishing substantial parts of the website as a competing service
  • Misrepresenting website output as an official government, legal, academic, or institutional determination
  • Using the website to impersonate another person or misrepresent someone’s identity
  • Submitting unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, or privacy-violating material
  • Using conversion tools to facilitate fraud, harassment, identity theft, or other unlawful activity
  • Removing copyright, attribution, trademark, source, or licensing notices
  • Reverse-engineering protected software except where applicable law expressly permits it
  • Reselling access to a tool, API, dataset, or premium feature without authorization

Romanization.org may restrict or block activity that appears automated, abusive, technically harmful, or inconsistent with these Terms.

6. Romanization and Transliteration Tools

Romanization.org may provide automated tools that convert text from one writing system into Roman letters or compare results produced by different romanization systems.

You acknowledge that automated conversion may be affected by:

  • Ambiguous characters
  • Multiple possible readings
  • Missing linguistic context
  • Word-segmentation errors
  • Regional pronunciation
  • Historical spelling
  • Personal naming preferences
  • Differences between official standards
  • Software implementation choices
  • Incomplete dictionaries or mapping tables
  • Unsupported scripts, characters, or formatting

Romanization.org does not guarantee that tool output is accurate, complete, reversible, officially accepted, or appropriate for a particular purpose.

You are responsible for reviewing and verifying all results before using them.

7. Official Documents and Important Uses

Do not rely exclusively on Romanization.org when preparing or submitting:

  • Passports
  • Visas
  • Immigration records
  • Court documents
  • Contracts
  • Academic credentials
  • Library catalog records
  • Government forms
  • Banking documents
  • Tax records
  • Property documents
  • Medical records
  • Shipping or navigation instructions
  • Other official or legally significant materials

An authority may require a particular system, spelling, document, certification, or human translation.

You are responsible for consulting the organization that will receive the information and following its current requirements.

8. Personal Names

A personal name may have an established, preferred, historical, or legally registered Roman-letter spelling that differs from an automated conversion.

You may not use Romanization.org to claim that:

  • A person’s preferred name is incorrect
  • An automatically generated spelling overrides an official spelling
  • Two similar names necessarily identify the same person
  • A name proves someone’s nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, or identity
  • A generated spelling is legally binding

Where identity matters, consult the person concerned or an authoritative document.

9. User Accounts

Romanization.org may introduce account-based features in the future.

You are responsible for:

  • Providing accurate registration information
  • Maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials
  • Restricting access to your account
  • Keeping your contact information current
  • Notifying Romanization.org of suspected unauthorized use

You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless applicable law provides otherwise.

Romanization.org may suspend or terminate accounts associated with abuse, fraud, security risks, repeated violations, unpaid fees, or prohibited conduct.

10. User Submissions

The website may allow users to submit:

  • Corrections
  • Comments
  • Conversion examples
  • Feedback
  • Suggested references
  • Articles
  • Data
  • Files
  • Messages
  • Other material

You retain any ownership rights you lawfully hold in your submission.

By submitting material for publication, review, or integration into the website, you grant Romanization.org a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, reproduce, format, review, display, adapt, and publish that material for the purpose for which it was submitted.

You represent that:

  • You have the right to submit the material
  • The submission does not unlawfully infringe another party’s rights
  • The information is not knowingly false, deceptive, or malicious
  • The material does not contain malware or harmful code
  • Any required attribution or licensing information has been provided

Romanization.org is not obligated to publish, retain, respond to, or use any submission.

Submissions may be edited for clarity, formatting, accuracy, consistency, or length.

11. Corrections and Editorial Decisions

Romanization involves competing standards, regional practices, institutional conventions, and legitimate differences of interpretation.

Romanization.org welcomes well-supported corrections but retains editorial discretion concerning:

  • Whether a correction is accepted
  • Which sources are considered authoritative
  • How competing systems are described
  • How articles are structured
  • Which examples are included
  • Whether outdated content is revised or removed
  • Whether a submitted contribution is published

A disagreement with an editorial decision does not create an obligation to alter or remove content unless required by applicable law.

12. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, Romanization.org and its licensors own or control the website’s original content and materials, including:

  • Articles
  • Explanations
  • Page layouts
  • Graphics
  • Branding
  • Logos
  • Original tables
  • Original datasets
  • Software
  • Conversion interfaces
  • Source code
  • Documentation
  • Compilation and organization of content

These materials are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

You may not reproduce, distribute, sell, license, publish, create a competing database from, or commercially exploit substantial portions of the website without written permission.

Limited quotations may be used for commentary, research, teaching, criticism, or citation when accompanied by appropriate attribution and when otherwise permitted by applicable law.

13. Public Standards and Language Data

Romanization rules, alphabets, character relationships, official standards, and linguistic facts may originate from third-party institutions or public sources.

Romanization.org does not claim ownership of facts, public standards, languages, scripts, alphabets, or systems merely because they are described on the website.

However, the website may hold rights in its original:

  • Explanations
  • Formatting
  • Selection of examples
  • Tables and arrangements
  • Software implementation
  • Documentation
  • Editorial analysis
  • Compiled datasets

A public romanization standard does not necessarily make every third-party table, database, publication, or software implementation freely reusable.

Users are responsible for complying with the licenses and rights applicable to third-party materials.

14. Historical Domain Materials

Romanization.org has previously been associated with an online Korean McCune–Reischauer romanization resource.

The current website is an independent publication and does not claim to be the official continuation of any previous organization, project, database, institution, publisher, or contributor associated with the domain.

Current ownership or operation of the domain does not transfer ownership of:

  • Former databases
  • Historical documentation
  • Archived articles
  • Previous source code
  • Former software
  • Images
  • Contributor agreements
  • Institutional relationships
  • Rights held by previous operators

Romanization.org does not knowingly reproduce protected historical materials without permission, a valid license, or another lawful basis.

More information is available on the Project History page.

15. Trademarks

Romanization.org’s name, logo, visual identity, and related branding may be protected by trademark or other applicable laws.

Names and trademarks belonging to standards bodies, universities, government agencies, software projects, publishers, companies, and other organizations remain the property of their respective owners.

Reference to a third-party name or trademark does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, partnership, or certification.

16. API and Automated Access

Romanization.org may provide an API or permit limited automated access.

API users must comply with:

  • Published documentation
  • Rate limits
  • Authentication requirements
  • Usage quotas
  • Attribution requirements
  • Data-retention rules
  • Applicable fees
  • Additional API terms

You may not:

  • Share private API credentials
  • Circumvent limits or billing controls
  • Use multiple accounts to avoid quotas
  • Interfere with API availability
  • Misrepresent API results as guaranteed or official
  • Use the API to create an unauthorized competing service
  • Resell API access without permission

Romanization.org may modify, limit, suspend, or discontinue API access at any time.

17. Paid Services

Romanization.org may offer paid features, subscriptions, downloads, API plans, consulting services, or other commercial products.

Prices, billing intervals, usage limits, renewal terms, and cancellation conditions will be displayed before purchase.

Unless otherwise stated:

  • Fees are charged in the currency shown at checkout
  • Users are responsible for applicable taxes
  • Subscription fees may renew automatically
  • Usage-based charges may depend on actual consumption
  • Access may be suspended for unpaid amounts
  • Refund eligibility is determined by the applicable purchase terms and law

Romanization.org may change future pricing but will not retroactively alter charges already completed.

18. Advertising and Affiliate Relationships

Romanization.org may display advertisements, sponsored material, or affiliate links.

The website may earn compensation when users view an advertisement, follow a commercial link, register for a service, or make a purchase.

Commercial relationships do not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of a product, service, seller, or advertiser.

Users are responsible for evaluating third-party offers and reviewing the seller’s terms, refund policies, and privacy practices.

Romanization.org may link to or integrate with third-party websites, archives, libraries, government sources, software services, payment providers, analytics systems, or other external resources.

Romanization.org does not control third-party services and is not responsible for:

  • Their availability
  • Their accuracy
  • Their security
  • Their terms
  • Their privacy practices
  • Their products
  • Their content
  • Their later modifications
  • Any loss resulting from their use

Access to third-party services is governed by the terms established by those third parties.

20. Privacy

Use of Romanization.org is also subject to its Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, shared, and protected.

You are responsible for avoiding the submission of confidential, sensitive, or personally identifying information to public tools unless the feature clearly supports and protects that use.

Do not enter passport numbers, identification numbers, passwords, payment credentials, confidential records, or other sensitive information into a public conversion tool.

21. Service Availability

Romanization.org may change, update, restrict, suspend, or discontinue any page, feature, tool, dataset, API, or service at any time.

The website does not guarantee:

  • Continuous availability
  • Error-free operation
  • Permanent retention of data
  • Compatibility with every device or browser
  • Support for every language or script
  • Preservation of saved settings or conversion history
  • Continued availability of a free feature
  • That existing links or URLs will remain unchanged

Maintenance, technical failures, security incidents, third-party outages, or other events may interrupt access.

22. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Romanization.org and its content, tools, services, and materials are provided on an as is and as available basis.

Romanization.org makes no express or implied warranty regarding:

  • Accuracy
  • Completeness
  • Reliability
  • Availability
  • Fitness for a particular purpose
  • Merchantability
  • Non-infringement
  • Official acceptance
  • Compatibility
  • Security
  • Error-free operation

No oral or written information obtained through the website creates a warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

Some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions apply only to the extent permitted by law.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Romanization.org and its owners, operators, editors, contributors, contractors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive losses arising from or related to the website.

This includes losses associated with:

  • Incorrect romanization or transliteration
  • Misidentified names
  • Rejected documents
  • Academic or cataloging errors
  • Lost data
  • Lost revenue
  • Lost business opportunities
  • Reputation damage
  • Service interruption
  • Unauthorized account access
  • Reliance on outdated information
  • Third-party links or services
  • Inability to access a tool
  • Use or misuse of downloaded materials

Where liability cannot be fully excluded, it will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

24. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Romanization.org and its owners, operators, editors, contributors, contractors, and service providers from claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and reasonable expenses arising from:

  • Your misuse of the website
  • Your violation of these Terms
  • Your infringement of another party’s rights
  • Material you submit or publish
  • Your unlawful use of conversion results
  • Activity conducted through your account

This section does not apply where prohibited by applicable law.

25. Suspension and Termination

Romanization.org may restrict, suspend, or terminate access when it reasonably believes that a user:

  • Violated these Terms
  • Created a security risk
  • Abused a tool or API
  • Failed to pay applicable charges
  • Infringed intellectual-property rights
  • Used the website unlawfully
  • Disrupted access for other users
  • Submitted fraudulent or harmful material

Termination does not eliminate obligations that arose before termination.

Provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, governing law, and dispute resolution survive termination where appropriate.

Anyone who believes that material on Romanization.org infringes their copyright, database rights, trademark, privacy, or other legal rights may submit a notice through the Contact page.

A notice should include:

  • Identification of the protected material
  • The URL of the allegedly infringing content
  • An explanation of the claimed violation
  • Evidence of ownership or authorization
  • Reliable contact information
  • A statement that the information provided is accurate

Romanization.org may request additional information before taking action.

Submitting a complaint does not automatically establish a violation. Legitimate notices will be reviewed and handled in accordance with applicable law.

27. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [insert country, state, or jurisdiction], without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be submitted to the courts located in [insert city and jurisdiction], unless applicable consumer-protection law requires another forum.

Before beginning formal proceedings, the parties should make a reasonable attempt to resolve the dispute through written communication.

28. Consumer Rights

Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit any mandatory consumer rights that apply under the laws of your country or region.

Where a provision conflicts with a right that cannot legally be waived, the applicable law will control and the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

29. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be interpreted or limited to the minimum extent necessary.

The remaining provisions will remain in effect.

30. No Waiver

Failure by Romanization.org to enforce a provision of these Terms does not waive the right to enforce that provision later.

A waiver is effective only when it is clearly made in writing by an authorized representative.

31. Assignment

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without written permission from Romanization.org.

Romanization.org may transfer its rights and obligations as part of a business reorganization, sale, merger, acquisition, asset transfer, or similar transaction, subject to applicable law.

32. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and any service-specific terms, constitute the entire agreement concerning your use of Romanization.org.

They replace previous discussions or agreements relating to the same subject matter.

33. Changes to These Terms

Romanization.org may revise these Terms to reflect:

  • New website features
  • Changes to paid services
  • Technical developments
  • Security requirements
  • Legal or regulatory changes
  • Updates to business practices

The revised version will be published on this page with an updated effective date.

Continued use of the website after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, to the extent permitted by law.

34. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be submitted through the Romanization.org Contact page.

For formal notices, use:

Romanization.org
Email: [insert contact email]
Mailing address: [insert business or legal mailing address]
Jurisdiction: [insert governing jurisdiction]