About Us
We’re Half Access—a platform where you can find a wife, a trusted dating site, or a useful guide that will help you succeed in online dating and not lose your money.
Our small yet energetic team consists of three members: Brett Johnson, Charlie Belanger, and David Barlett, and without excess hesitation (and shyness) we can say that each of us is a professional in their field.
Our mission
If you’re searching for a foreign bride, HalfAcess is the place you need. Our main goal is to help men who are interested in international dating to succeed—here, we provide the best and the most useful guides, and we also review the top dating sites and explain how they work.
Our Value
- Customer first. We always put our customers at the center. It’s the positive customer experience that is important for us: we write all our reviews and guides with the reader in mind and our goal is to provide the most useful information to you.
- Trustworthiness. We’re the team that’s been working with dating sites for more than 10 years, collecting evidence for what can work and what can’t.
- Only facts. We always double-check the information before posting it and we believe that our readers deserve only the best and the most honest reviews and guides.
- Our own experience. Most of our articles and guides are based on our own experience, advice, and reviews of the people we interviewed. If we don’t know something about the subject, we contact other experts and get their feedback.
Our approach
How do we choose the best websites and profiles? Here’s the answer.
Mail order brides sites
The process of choosing the best sites is pretty time-consuming—it takes around 7 days to test a site and write a review. Why so long?
Because we analyze literally every detail. From the registration process to the quality of profiles, from the response rate to the assortment of messaging tools, we believe that there are no minor things when it comes to international dating sites.
We pay special attention to the female profiles and to the safety of each site, of course, but even small things like the quality of customer support and the interface of the app are very important to us. We always chat with women, chat with the support managers, and test all the premium features to deliver the fullest reviews possible.
Mail order brides profiles
As for the profiles, it’s not that difficult. We want to choose only the best mail order brides websites, so we pay special attention to the so-called quality of profiles.
When we talk about quality, we talk about, for example, the number of photos, the quality of photos, the amount of additional information, etc. It’s also very important for us to choose only real women, so we only add the ID-verified accounts. Scammers can be very good at pretending they’re real brides, but ID verification is very hard to fool, so you’ll only find real, verified accounts on HalfAcess.
And it’s also the response rate—we only choose the ladies from the sites with a high response rate (at least 70%).
Why You Can Trust Us
- We love our job, and we’ve been doing our job for years. During those years, our lead writer found a wife on a mail order bride site, our founder has been using and then testing various international dating websites for more than 12 years, and our editor has business trips to Colombia, Japan, and Poland every 3 or 4 months to check out the current trends and the whole dating situation. We know everything about how these sites work, about how they can fool you and steal your money, and about how to succeed in the world of international dating.
- We’re honest. You will not find any fake reviews or paid reviews here. If a website doesn’t meet our requirements, we simply don’t write a review—so here, you’ll only find honest opinions. This also applies to our approach to various dating guides—our goal is to provide only facts and fresh information about different countries, about how to date women from these countries, and about how to not get scammed.
- We’re here to help. That’s our main goal, actually: we know how hard it can be for someone who has no experience in online dating to find a good website or to understand the dating rules in a new country. We want to make your journey as smooth as possible, and that’s the main reason why we’re here.
Meet Our Team
Our team consists of experienced specialists who know everything about how the online dating industry works. Learn more about them here:
Brett Johnson
Founder of Half Access
Education: Master’s in Business Administration, Columbia Southern University
Experience: Business Advisor (2005-2012), Lead Business Development Manager (2012-2020), Chief Executive Officer (2020-present)
Brett Johnson is the chief executive officer, the leader of our team, and the man who knows probably everything about how online dating works. He’s an experienced business manager and advisor who worked with 3 companies from the Fortune 500 list, but apart from that, Brett has been using international (mostly Slavic and Asian) dating websites since 2012. He knows how this industry works, how to distinguish a good dating site from a bad one, how online dating companies can deceive their clients—and how to avoid getting deceived by them.
Charlie Belanger
Lead Writer & Head of Content Team
Education: Master’s in Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Experience: Journalist (2012-2016), Public relations assistant (2016-2018), Communication specialist (2018-present)
Charlie is the lead author and head of our content team. He’s an experienced professional who has been working with different media companies for 12 years—first as a journalist, and now, as a lead communication specialist. Charlie is also very experienced at international dating: he spent 2 years finding a foreign partner, and in 2017, he finally found Dalisay, a Filipino mail order bride—they’re married and happy, and they raise two beautiful daughters. Charlie is a very experienced professional in online dating, and especially in international online dating: he knows a lot about the industry, about how these sites work, and about how one should use them to succeed.
David Barlett
Editor, Customer Support Manager
Education: Bachelor in Communication and Digital Media, Southern New Hampshire University
Experience: Marketing and social media specialist (2016-2018), Brand manager, lead editor (2018-present)
David Barlett is the youngest member of our team, but he’s as experienced as Charlie and Brett when it comes to the international dating industry. He’s a skilled SMM specialist, brand manager, and marketing specialist who has a very important role in our team: he’s a contributing editor and customer support manager. He is a consultant, he’s responsible for the content you can see on our website, and he’s also the first person who will read your email in case you’re going to contact us.
I know how to build a successful business, but here, it’s not about business. Well, it’s not about profit in the first place. My main goal here is to help people understand the industry of online dating better and to help men avoid problems they might face when they enter the world of international dating. That’s why this website was created and that’s why our team is here.
When I first started using dating apps in 2015, it was a new world for me—exciting and interesting, but full of scammers, problems, and fake dating websites. However, I found all I wanted on these sites—there, I met the best woman in the world and married her! What I want to do here is help guys like me to evade all those problems: and with my experience, I believe, I can help you. Here, I’ll tell you everything I know.
My main goal is to make sure everything we post looks perfect, but it’s not the only one. I also believe that there must be only facts in our guides, so fact-checking is also on me. And of course, I’m also a support manager here, so if you have any questions, concerns, or requests, I’ll gladly receive your feedback.