These Terms of Use apply when you access or use the Belong Elsewhere website, BE Index, My Matches, and related content. By using the site, you agree to use it lawfully and in accordance with these terms.
Belong Elsewhere is an LGBTQ+ destination-intelligence platform designed to help people research, understand, and compare potential places to live abroad.
The BE Index provides structured country comparisons based on our research framework.
My Matches uses the same underlying evidence to order destinations around the priorities and household factors you select.
Our tools are intended to support exploration and research.
They do not make decisions for you or guarantee that any destination will be suitable for your individual circumstances.
Belong Elsewhere is not a relocation agency, law firm, immigration adviser, financial adviser, or healthcare provider.
Information on the site is provided for general research and comparison purposes and should not be treated as legal, immigration, financial, medical, or other professional advice.
You should consult an appropriately qualified professional when a decision requires individualized advice.
Country scores, rankings, evidence, and other information may change as laws, policies, costs, research, and other conditions change.
We strive to keep our information accurate and consistently researched, but we cannot guarantee that every piece of information will always be complete, current, or error-free.
My Matches reflects the priorities and household factors you choose.
A personalized ranking is not a recommendation or guarantee that you should move to a particular country.
You may use Belong Elsewhere and its publicly available information for your own personal, non-commercial research.
You may not, without our written permission:
- copy or republish substantial portions of our content or datasets;
- scrape, bulk-download, or systematically extract data from the site;
- reproduce or commercially use the BE Index, scoring methodology, rankings, or other proprietary materials;
- attempt to reverse engineer, interfere with, or bypass the operation or security of our tools;
- or use automated systems to access the site in a way that places an unreasonable burden on our services.
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We may update, modify, suspend, or discontinue parts of the site as Belong Elsewhere grows. We do not guarantee that the website or any particular feature will always be available without interruption.
To the extent permitted by law, Belong Elsewhere is not responsible for losses or damages resulting from decisions made based on information, scores, rankings, links, or tools provided through the site.
You remain responsible for verifying information that is important to your personal, legal, financial, healthcare, or relocation decisions.
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. When we do, we’ll update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after an update means the revised terms apply to your future use of Belong Elsewhere.
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