Terms of use

Where our information comes from

Everything in the record is read from public sources: official government pages, registers kept by international organisations, and published legal texts. Every published fact carries a link to the page it was read out of, and the sentence it was read from. Those links are there so you never have to take our word for anything.

It can be wrong

Public sources can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date, and so can our reading of them. A page can change the day after we read it. We check our sources again on a schedule and we say when one has moved, but there will always be a gap between a change and our record of it.

So nothing here is legal advice, and nothing here should be relied on as a legal statement about any country or organisation. Where our summary and the source disagree, the source is right. We do our best to keep the record accurate and to find our own mistakes, and we will keep saying plainly which parts we have not checked.

Telling us we are wrong

Every page carries a way to report a mistake, and a person reads every report. We ask for one thing: a source we can open and read for ourselves. That is the same rule we hold our own facts to, and it is why every fact here carries a link.

A report is not a correction. It opens a case. If we agree, the correction is published in the change ledger with the same weight as the original, the record of us having been wrong stays there, and we never say who told us.

How a fact gets published here

What signing does

Signing adds your support to the Accord as it was written at that moment. The text you signed is stored with your signature and cannot be changed afterwards. You choose whether your name is shown or counted privately, you can ask for a copy of your record at any time, and you can withdraw.