Updated 1 October 2026
Terms of use
These terms govern access to Valour, an editorial information website operated from Jakarta, Indonesia. By reading the site, you agree to use it lawfully and respectfully. If you do not accept these terms, discontinue use. These terms are intended to be read alongside our privacy policy, cookie policy and health disclaimer, each of which addresses a different aspect of using the site, and together the four documents form the complete understanding between Valour and a reader. We publish in English as our primary working language; if an automated translation produces a different meaning from the English text, the English version controls for the purpose of interpreting these terms. These terms apply equally whether you reach the site directly, through a search engine, through a shared link, or through a paid advertisement that brought you to a specific article. Because Valour does not require account registration for ordinary reading, simply loading a page constitutes the acceptance referenced above; there is no separate click-through consent step for casual browsing. If a future feature requires a dedicated action such as submitting a form, acceptance of these terms will be reaffirmed at that point.
Editorial purpose
Valour provides general education about health, wellbeing and daily habits. Articles are not diagnoses, prescriptions or a substitute for a qualified professional. The appropriate response to a health emergency is local emergency care, not a website. This means, for example, that an article describing common patterns in sleep disruption among adults is intended to build general understanding of the topic, not to tell a specific reader what is wrong with their own sleep or what medication to take. Where a topic involves a recognised medical condition, we try to use neutral, descriptive language and to point toward the kind of professional, such as a general practitioner or a specialist, who is typically best placed to assess an individual case. A related edge case is content about lifestyle habits, such as exercise or diet, which may feel less clinical than a disease-specific article but still should not be treated as individualised coaching tailored to a person's medical history. We periodically review whether an article's framing still reads as educational rather than prescriptive, and we revise phrasing that drifts too close to sounding like personal medical instruction.
Reader responsibility
You decide whether information is relevant to your circumstances. Consider age, conditions, medicines, allergies and professional advice before changing a routine. Do not use an article to delay urgent assessment. Two readers with an apparently similar question, such as how to approach a change in exercise routine, may need very different answers depending on factors an article cannot know, including existing diagnoses, current medications, recent procedures or family history. We therefore write with the expectation that a reader will treat general information as a starting point for a conversation with a qualified professional rather than as a finished instruction to act on alone. A practical example: an article about common approaches to stress management is not a substitute for assessment of a specific anxiety disorder, and a reader experiencing persistent distress should raise it with a suitably qualified professional rather than relying solely on general tips. If professional advice you have received directly conflicts with something read on Valour, the professional advice that accounts for your actual history and circumstances should normally take priority.
Accuracy
We aim for careful, dated and understandable material. Health knowledge changes and an error may remain despite review. Send corrections through contact.php with a source and we will assess them in the editorial process. Our editorial process includes a review step before publication and periodic revisiting of older articles as understanding of a topic develops, but even careful review cannot guarantee that every sentence remains accurate indefinitely, particularly in a fast-moving area of health research. An example of an edge case is a statistic drawn from a study that is later revised or retracted; if we become aware of this, we will update or annotate the affected article, but there may be a period between the underlying change and our correction where older information remains visible. We ask that a correction request include, where possible, a link or citation to the more current source, since a bare assertion that something is wrong is harder for us to verify and act on quickly than a sourced one. Significant corrections to a previously published claim will typically be noted with a visible update rather than silently edited away, consistent with ordinary editorial practice.
Intellectual property
Valour text, branding and original layouts belong to Valour or its licensors. You may read, link and quote a reasonable excerpt with attribution. Republishing a full article, scraping a database or presenting our work as your own is not permitted. This protection covers the specific wording of our articles, our original diagrams or illustrations, the Valour name and logo, and the particular arrangement and selection of content on a page, but it does not prevent anyone from independently writing about the same underlying facts or general health topics, which are not ownable by any single publisher. A reasonable excerpt for the purpose of commentary, criticism or reference, typically a sentence or short passage with a clear link back to the original article, is a normal and accepted use that does not require separate permission. If you would like to use a larger portion of our content than a brief excerpt, for example for an academic citation requiring a longer quotation, contact us first so we can confirm what use is acceptable. Trademark elements, such as the Valour name and visual identity, may not be used to imply an affiliation, endorsement or partnership that does not exist.
Comments and submissions
If a submission is opened, it must be lawful, accurate to the best of your knowledge and free of confidential information. We may edit or decline material for clarity, safety, relevance or space. Submission does not guarantee publication or payment. If and when an open submission channel exists on the site, a contributor should expect that submitted material may be lightly edited for grammar, length or clarity without changing its substantive meaning, and that more significant edits will typically be discussed with the contributor first where practical. We may decline a submission for reasons including insufficient sourcing, overlap with an existing article, a tone that reads as promotional rather than informational, or simply an editorial decision that the topic does not fit our current coverage plan. A submission containing a third party's confidential information, such as a named patient's personal health details without their consent, will not be published and may be declined outright regardless of its other merits. Where a submission is published, the contributor will typically be asked to confirm they hold the necessary rights to the material submitted, including any accompanying image.
External links
Links may help readers locate public resources, but Valour does not control external content, availability or privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement of every claim, product or service on the destination. A typical example is a link from an article to a government public-health page, a professional association's patient information page, or a peer-reviewed study; in each case the destination's own terms, accuracy standards and privacy practices apply the moment a reader clicks through. We select links based on apparent relevance and credibility at the time of publication, but an external organisation may later redesign its site, change its content, or even cease to operate, and we cannot promise that a previously useful link will remain accurate or even functional indefinitely. If a reader notices a broken or clearly outdated external link, reporting it through contact.php helps us either update or remove the reference during a routine content review. Where a link leads to a commercial or sponsored destination, this is addressed separately under our advertising separation principle below.
Advertising separation
Advertising enquiries are handled separately from editorial judgment. Paid placements must follow applicable advertising rules and cannot purchase medical conclusions. See publicidad.php for our disclosure approach. In practice, this means that no advertiser is permitted to specify, approve or veto the content of an article in exchange for running a campaign, and the same editorial standards of sourcing and balance apply whether or not Valour has a commercial relationship with a company mentioned nearby. A paid placement cannot purchase a favourable mention within editorial text; any commercial content is visually and textually distinguished as advertising, sponsorship or partner content rather than blended into articles. Where an advertisement nonetheless strikes a reader as misleading or inconsistent with these principles, reporting it through contact.php allows the editorial desk to review and, where warranted, pause the placement while the concern is assessed. Full detail on how sponsored content is labelled and reviewed is set out in publicidad.php, which should be read together with this section.
Availability
We work to keep the website available but may suspend access for maintenance, security or revision. We do not guarantee uninterrupted operation or that every article will remain online indefinitely. Planned maintenance, such as a server migration or a security patch requiring brief downtime, is an example of the kind of interruption covered by this section, and we try to schedule such work at low-traffic times where practical, though we do not provide advance notice for every minor update. An unplanned outage, for instance caused by a hosting provider's infrastructure issue, is also covered, and resolution time in such cases depends on factors outside our direct control. Similarly, an individual article may occasionally be removed, substantially revised, or taken offline, for example following a correction that invalidates its core premise, and we do not guarantee that any specific piece of content will remain permanently accessible at its original address. Where a removal is significant, we try to replace the page with a brief notice rather than a silent dead link, though this is a courtesy rather than an obligation.
Liability
To the extent permitted by law, Valour is not responsible for loss arising from reliance on general information, external services or interruptions. Nothing here excludes a right or responsibility that cannot legally be excluded. This limitation is intended to apply to the fullest extent a court in the relevant jurisdiction would allow, and it specifically covers situations such as a reader making a lifestyle decision based on a general article, a reader relying on an external link that turned out to be inaccurate, or a reader experiencing inconvenience from a temporary site outage. It does not, however, exclude liability for matters that cannot lawfully be excluded, such as liability for fraud or for a deliberately false statement made with intent to deceive. A practical consequence of this section is that Valour's role is to publish careful, general, dated information, not to accept the kind of liability a treating clinician or a licensed adviser might carry for individualised advice given directly to a client. This section should be read together with the health disclaimer, which addresses the same theme from a clinical-safety angle rather than a legal-liability angle.
Governing context
These terms are interpreted with regard to the laws applicable in Indonesia, while mandatory consumer protections in your place of residence may also apply. Contact us before escalating a concern so we can understand it. Indonesian law provides the primary legal framework we design these terms around, reflecting the location of our editorial desk and the Jakarta address under which Valour operates, but we recognise that a reader accessing the site from elsewhere may be protected by additional mandatory rules in their home jurisdiction that these terms cannot override. Where a conflict exists between a provision here and a mandatory protection in a reader's home jurisdiction, the mandatory local protection will apply to that specific reader to the extent required by that jurisdiction's law, without affecting the validity of these terms for other readers. We would rather resolve a disagreement directly through a conversation than through formal proceedings, so we ask that a concerned reader contact us first and describe the issue clearly, including any relevant dates or page references.
Revision record
Version 1.0 took effect on 1 October 2026. Changes will show a new date and a short description. Questions may be sent to the address on contact.php or by phone at +62 813 6789 2468. We expect updates to these terms to be infrequent, reflecting genuine changes such as the introduction of a new content type or a legal development that requires adjusted language, rather than cosmetic rewording for its own sake. Each dated revision will include a short description of what changed, maintained in an internal record that can be shared on request even if not published as a running public log on every page. Where a change meaningfully affects a reader's obligations or our commitments, we will aim to flag it prominently rather than relying on a reader to notice a quiet date change at the top of the page. As with the other policy documents on this site, continued use of Valour after a dated revision indicates acceptance of the revised terms going forward, without retroactively affecting rights tied to an earlier version.