Belong Austria, Terms and Conditions

These terms are the agreement between you and Belong Europe ApS for the use of Belong Austria. By downloading or using the app you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

Who we are

Belong Austria is made by Belong Europe ApS, a company registered in Copenhagen, Denmark, CVR number 46649044, reachable at hello@belongeurope.com.

What Belong Austria is

Belong Austria is a personal tracker. It helps you see your own distance to Austrian citizenship by organising the information you enter against published rules, and by showing honestly which part of the journey you control and which part you do not. Everything you enter stays on your device.

Belong Austria is not legal advice

Belong Austria is an information tool, not a lawyer and not an authority. Citizenship law changes, administrative practice varies, and this app may contain errors or be out of date. Nothing here creates any right, decides anything, or binds any authority.

Verify your own situation with the bodies that actually decide it: your provincial citizenship authority, the Amt der Landesregierung — in Vienna the MA 35 — which decides citizenship applications, the official information at oesterreich.gv.at, and the BMI, whose Mein Österreich portal publishes the official learning material and practice test for the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung. You use Belong Austria at your own risk, and decisions about your file remain yours.

Practice is practice, not the exam

The questions in the Practice tab are written by Belong Europe from the official learning material’s published subject areas. They are not the BMI’s or your province’s questions, they are not endorsed by them, and they can contain mistakes. The real sitting also asks six questions about your province’s history that the app does not cover. A good score in Practice is not a pass, and passing the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung does not replace the separate German language proof.

What if is a sandbox

The What if feature runs the same rules on a hypothetical copy of your situation so you can see how a decision would move your finish line. It is an illustration, not a prediction, not a promise, and not a commitment by any authority. Nothing you try in it is saved.

Documents you attach

You choose what to attach on the Path tab, and what you attach is your responsibility. We do not read, verify, validate or store your documents, and attaching one does not satisfy a requirement or prove anything to anyone — only the authority deciding your case can do that. The count of requirements that carry a document is a count of attachments, nothing more.

Belong Austria is not a backup service. Documents live only on the iPhone you added them on. If you remove one, delete the app, or lose or replace the device, it is gone and we cannot recover it, because we never had it. Your own device backup will not save it either: documents are deliberately kept out of that backup, so restoring a new phone does not bring them back. Keep your own copies of anything that matters.

Dates, reminders and alerts

What’s coming lists dates worked out from what you have entered and from rules the authorities have published. A date shown as the earliest possible one is a projection, not a commitment: rules change, calendars change, and nothing shown here binds any authority.

Alerts for those dates are local notifications scheduled on your device and delivered by iOS at its discretion. They can arrive late, be held back by your system settings, a Focus mode or Low Power Mode, or not arrive at all, and they stop if you turn notifications off. Do not rely on them as your only reminder. Meeting a registration window, a renewal or any other deadline remains yours.

Passport facts

The Passport tab shows facts about the Austrian passport — validity, fee, where to apply and dual citizenship — checked with the issuing authority on the date shown in the app. Fees and rules change, and nothing on that tab binds any authority: check with the issuing authority before you book or pay. The cover shown is an illustration, the holder name and any photo are ones you added yourself, and none of it is a travel document or proof of anything. The notes on the passport’s design are descriptive only, and the line under the cover saying when you could apply restates the app’s own estimate — it is not a decision date and not advice.

Subscriptions

• Belong Austria Pro costs 34,99 EUR per year.
• New subscribers get a 7-day free trial.
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings; we cannot do it for you.
• Where the law permits, any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.

Apple handles the sale, the billing and any refunds. Apple’s terms govern that transaction.

No warranty

Belong Austria is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it is accurate, complete, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, and we do not warrant that any date it shows will match the decision you eventually receive.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Belong Europe ApS is not liable for any loss or harm arising from your use of Belong Austria or your reliance on the information in it, including any missed deadline, refused application or delayed decision. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Acceptable use

Use Belong Austria personally and lawfully. Do not copy, resell, redistribute or sublicense it, do not reverse engineer it, and do not use it to mislead anyone about their legal position or to provide immigration advice as a service.

Intellectual property

The app, its text, its rule summaries and its design belong to Belong Europe ApS. References to official sources are for information; the names and marks of the BMI, the provincial authorities and The Local belong to their respective owners, and none of them endorses Belong Austria.

Changes

We may update these terms. The current version always lives on this page with its effective date, and material changes are announced in the app.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Danish law. If you are a consumer, you keep the mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live, and nothing here removes them.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@belongeurope.com.