Terms of use
Updated: 4 October 2026
The service
A reference to archival documents about Belarus. The catalogue comes from open sources and the archives' finding aids, and some inventories we read ourselves; every record shows its source. We do not host scans and are not an official resource of any archive.
Accuracy
The data is provided as is and may contain errors or be out of date. Titles read by software from scans are marked as such and may have misread names. Check the reference with the archive before ordering copies.
Your content
Notes, collections and saved searches are private unless a feature explicitly lets you publish them. Marks about files being issued or copied are visible to other users. Do not add personal data of living people, other people's contacts, or copies whose publication the archive restricts. You are responsible for what you add.
Corrections
We check corrections of machine-read titles and may change or reject them. Accepted corrections are published on the site as part of the catalogue, without your name; by sending them you allow us to publish them.
Plans
The free plan: search and everything from open sources, one collection of up to 50 files, one saved search. The Researcher plan: early access (files we read ourselves are visible only on it for their first 30 days), unlimited collections and saved searches.
Contributions and corrections instead of payment
Days of the Researcher plan can be earned with corrections (1 day for every accepted corrected title), with checks of foreign archives' files (1 day for every accepted answer whether a file concerns Belarus) and with a contribution: what a file is about (3 days per file), extracts, tables and lists (agreed individually). We decide the number of days; a contribution does not oblige us to grant access. We never publish files you send without your permission.
Payment
The Researcher plan costs €5 a month or €20 a year; VAT is added according to the buyer's country. Payments are taken by Stripe through Managed Payments; the seller is Link (Stripe). The subscription renews automatically for the same period until you cancel it; cancel in your account or on link.com, and access stays until the end of the paid period. Refunds follow the refund policy: the full amount within 14 days of the first payment, and the subscription ends.
E-mails
For saved searches and collections we send at most one e-mail a day. You can turn them off in your account or with the link in the e-mail.
Changes and contact
These terms may change; we will announce significant changes on the site. Questions: fondvopissprava@gmail.com.