Policy

Privacy Policy

Pacific Disaster Net (PDN) is committed to making Disaster Risk Management information available to the public. Any personal information submitted through our site will be treated in accordance with this policy.

Pacific Disaster Net will not share, sell or rent individual personal information about our website users without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Any data that we collect as a result of your use of the site remains confidential.

The opinions expressed in the documents on this website and in the sites linked from the Pacific Disaster Net are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by PDN or the SOPAC secretariat. Inclusion of links to sites outside PDN does not imply endorsement of the contents of those sites.

This privacy policy is applicable only to information you provide to us through this website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party sites that are linked to or from our site.

Terms of Use

Pacific Disaster Net (www.pacificdisaster.net) is made available by the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) and developed through cooperative effort by IFRC, UNDP-PC and UNOCHA.
These terms of use apply to any person viewing, posting on or otherwise using the Website in any way (the 'Visitor'). By using the website, the Visitor agrees to be bound by the following terms and conditions.

Appropriate Use

SOPAC maintains and operates Pacific Disaster Net as a portal and resource for the benefit of the stakeholders involved in Disaster Risk Management. Any use of the Website by the Visitor that would limit or impart the availability or quality of the portal and resources is prohibited and SOPAC reserves the right to take any actions required to enforce this principle.

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information.

We invite our users to find documents and registered users to contribute information on publications, policies and reports, alerts and announcements, meetings and conferences, training materials and online resources related to Disaster Risk Management.

Please note that many of our documents are in PDF format, and you will need Acrobat Reader to view these documents. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, please download it here for free.

If you have any questions or comments about this website, or if you find any errors, please notify us.

Copyright

© 2008 Pacific Disaster Net – All rights reserved. No part of the structure of this publication – inclusive of the Pacific Disaster Net logo – may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the publisher, the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC).

The selection of sources and retrieval of documents is undertaken by Pacific Disaster Net employees, project partners and other contributing agencies.

Pacific Disaster Net is not responsible for unauthorised re-publishing of information on other sites, and encourages content providers to monitor their content and report any misuse.