1. Nature of Our Services

AbroadRatings.com operates as an independent, collaborative, student-to-student platform that archives authentic study abroad program reviews and provides a scholarship matching discovery engine. AbroadRatings.com compiles public directories of program names and descriptions for informational and comparison purposes.

AbroadRatings.com is strictly an independent information clearinghouse. We are not a university, educational institution, study abroad provider, or financial lender.

2. No Institutional Affiliation & Data Disclaimers

• •No University Affiliation: AbroadRatings.com is not officially affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with any university, college, or third-party educational provider whose public portals or study abroad programs are listed on the Platform. All trademarked institution names and program titles remain the property of their respective owners.
• •Information "As-Is": Program data, costs, application paths, and structural details are aggregated from publicly accessible university directories. While we strive to maintain clean data, AbroadRatings.com makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy, completeness, currency, or availability of any program listing.
• •No Funding Guarantees: Our scholarship matching tools provide estimates and algorithmic possibilities based on user-submitted data profiles. AbroadRatings.com does not issue financial aid, cannot guarantee scholarship awards, and does not influence the selection criteria of external funding bodies.

3. User Accounts and Profile Submissions

• •Profile Data: To access customized scholarship matching features, you may be required to build a student profile. You agree to provide accurate, honest profile parameters, including your broad major category, grade point average (GPA) tiers, destination preferences, and financial assistance attributes.
• •Anonymity Obligations: Users are strictly prohibited from publishing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within public text blocks, comments, or review entries. Prohibited PII includes real names, social security or student identification numbers, personal phone numbers, or exact financial statements. AbroadRatings.com reserves the right to automatically filter, redact, or delete submissions that compromise student privacy.

4. Data Aggregation, Monetization, and Corporate Transfer Rights

• •Ownership of De-Identified Data: AbroadRatings.com systematically de-identifies, aggregates, and anonymizes raw user profile inputs, algorithmic scholarship matches, click-through tracks, and user navigation behavior. You acknowledge and agree that AbroadRatings.com owns all right, title, and interest in and to these aggregated, de-identified datasets.
• •Commercial Licensing: AbroadRatings.com reserves the express right to commercialize, license, rent, share, or sell anonymized, statistical, and demographic datasets to third-party educational providers, university recruiters, marketing networks, and financial institutions for lead generation, analytics, and software integration purposes.
• •Successors and Assigns (M&A Clause): In the event that AbroadRatings.com undergoes a significant business transition—such as a corporate merger, venture funding rounds, a asset consolidation, bankruptcy, or the sale of all or substantially all of its digital and corporate assets to an outside buyer—you explicitly agree that all platform databases, scraped directories, historical tracking logs, and user profile metadata will transfer automatically to the acquiring corporate entity as a saleable asset, without requiring additional notice or fresh user consent.

5. User-Generated Content License

By submitting program reviews, advice, ratings, or other text to AbroadRatings.com, you grant AbroadRatings.com a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully sublicensable, and transferable license to host, cache, store, modify, publish, display, distribute, and commercialize such text across any media distribution channel. You represent that your submissions are original, truthful, and do not violate third-party intellectual property or privacy agreements.

6. Platform Use and Infrastructure Scrape Protection

• •Permitted Use: AbroadRatings.com extracts and updates its core institutional program registries using public, non-authenticated web-scraping strategies that conform to standard open-internet frameworks.
• •Security Restrictions: You agree not to bypass, disable, or interfere with any security features of the Platform. You are prohibited from deploying high-frequency automated extraction tools, bots, or malicious scripts against AbroadRatings.com's review databases or backend structures in any way that degrades service performance, spikes hosting expenses, or constitutes an unauthorized "trespass to chattels" against our infrastructure.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, AbroadRatings.com, its founders, operators, and future corporate successors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages resulting from your use of the Website, your reliance on review scores, errors in scholarship match eligibility, or financial decisions made based on platform content.

8. Modifications to These Terms

AbroadRatings.com reserves the right to modify, amend, or rewrite these Terms at any time to reflect changing privacy regulations or corporate strategies. Changes become effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the platform at https://base44.app following an update indicates your formal acceptance of the modified Terms.