Legal

Who runs GlobeWarn

GlobeWarn is published by DAGRANG SANG, entreprise individuelle registered in France.

Registered address

5 Rue Rouget de Lisle, 92600 Asnières-sur-Seine, France

SIRET

927 924 621 00018

VAT number

FR72927924621

Activity code (APE)

4791B

Publication director

Sang-Yabchen Dagrang

Contact

[email protected]

Hosting

Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. Domain registered through Cloudflare Registrar.

What GlobeWarn is

GlobeWarn reads natural disaster warnings published by official agencies, organises it, and shows it in one place. It reads its sources on a published schedule, groups events by continent, orders them by its own Impact Index described below, and reports each one in the issuing agency's own terms.

Where an alert carries a severity wording — may be Extreme, may be Severe, may be Serious, may be Moderate — that word is the band into which the issuing agency's own alert level falls. The underlying judgement is the agency's, not GlobeWarn's.

Where an agency publishes what it expects an event may cause, GlobeWarn repeats that expectation in the agency's terms, names the agency, and states when it was issued.

One number on this site is GlobeWarn's own: the Impact Index. It is calculated only from figures the agencies themselves published — the highest alert level any agency gave the event, the population that agency counted, and how many independent sources carry it — and the arithmetic is printed beside every Index so it can be checked. It never sits below the highest band an agency gave: it can raise a ranking, it cannot soften one. An event no agency graded carries no Index at all.

The Impact Index is a ranking of what has been published, expressed as a number. It is not a warning, not a forecast, not a probability, and not a statement about what will happen. It carries no more authority than the published figures it is built from, and where it and an issuing agency differ, the agency is right.

The methodology is published on the site and describes exactly what the software does. If the two ever disagree, the software is the error and will be corrected.

What GlobeWarn is not

GlobeWarn is not a warning authority, an emergency service, or a substitute for either. It issues no warning of its own, forecasts nothing, and estimates no casualties. Its only figure of its own is the Impact Index, which ranks warnings that others have already issued and never creates one.

• The agency is the authority. Where GlobeWarn and an official source differ, the official source is correct. In an emergency, follow the instructions of your national or local authority, not this website.
• No guarantee of accuracy, completeness or timeliness. GlobeWarn republishes data it did not produce and cannot verify. A source may be wrong, late, incomplete, or silent about an event that is happening. An empty map does not mean an empty world.
• Not a basis for decisions that risk life or property. GlobeWarn must not be used as the sole basis for evacuation, deployment, dispatch, insurance, financial or operational decisions. It is one input among the sources such a decision requires.
• Coverage is partial and stated. The disasters and regions covered are listed on the site. Anything not listed is not covered. The absence of an alert is not evidence that nothing is happening.

Sources and their terms

Every source GlobeWarn reads is listed on the site, together with what is taken from it and under what licence. Those sources are public and remain the property and responsibility of the bodies that publish them.

GlobeWarn credits each source as its licence requires and passes its content through without alteration to meaning. Where an agency publishes a figure — the population it counted as exposed, a range for deaths or damage — that figure is repeated as theirs, with their name on it, and is never recalculated. Where a source requires acknowledgement, that acknowledgement is on the page. Where a source withdraws or changes its terms, GlobeWarn will stop using it.

The agencies named on this site do not endorse GlobeWarn, are not affiliated with it, and have no responsibility for how their data is presented here.

Availability

GlobeWarn is provided on a best-effort basis. No uptime is guaranteed at any subscription level, and none is promised in this document or anywhere else on the site.

Some sources are read directly from the issuing agency and some through an aggregator that agency publishes into, such as the WMO Register of Alerting Authorities. Either way the warning remains that agency's, and a failure anywhere in that chain shows as the source being unavailable.

A source may also be listed but held: published by an agency that has not granted this server access to read it. A held source is not a failure and is not retried into working — it carries nothing until the agency allows it. The site names which sources are held and what each is waiting for, on the coverage table and in the feed health record, so a held source is never counted as covered.

Sources go down, rate-limit, change format, and occasionally publish nothing for hours. When that happens GlobeWarn shows the source as unavailable and continues to show what it last received, marked with the time it was received. The feed health record on the site shows every check made over the last seven days, successful or not.

Maintenance, upgrades and outages may interrupt the service without notice. An Enterprise agreement may set specific commitments in writing; nothing in this page does.

Liability

GlobeWarn is provided as it is. To the fullest extent permitted by French law, and subject to the exclusions below, no liability is accepted for:

• any decision taken, or not taken, on the basis of information shown on this site;
• the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or continued availability of data published by third parties;
• the Impact Index, its ordering, or any decision taken because one event appeared above or below another. The Index ranks published figures; it does not assess a disaster, and it is not a substitute for the issuing agency's own judgement;
• indirect or consequential loss, including loss of profit, revenue, data, business, contracts or reputation;
• interruption, delay, or failure of the service or of any source it depends on.

Where liability is established and can lawfully be limited, it is limited to the total amount paid for the service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to it. A reader who has paid nothing has this service for nothing, and that is the measure of what is owed.

Nothing in this page excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence (faute lourde) or wilful misconduct (faute dolosive), or for anything else which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under French law. Consumer rights under the Code de la consommation are unaffected.

Subscriptions and payment

Reading GlobeWarn is free and remains so. A paid licence adds the features listed on the cards in the pricing section, every one of which works today. That section also names, separately and under its own heading, the things being built that no licence covers and that nothing has been charged for.

• Prices. Starter €29.58, Pro €295.80 and Enterprise €2,550, each per month. The price shown is the price paid.
• VAT. No VAT is charged. TVA non applicable, art. 293 B du CGI.
• Payment. Taken by PayPal, which acts as payment processor. A card may be used without a PayPal account. GlobeWarn never sees or stores card details.
• Renewal and cancellation. A subscription renews automatically until cancelled, and may be cancelled at any time from the payer's PayPal account. Access continues to the end of the period already paid for.
• Refunds. A subscription cancelled mid-period is not refunded pro rata, because access continues for that period. Where a payment was taken in error, it is refunded in full on request.
• Withdrawal. A consumer in the European Union has fourteen days to withdraw from a distance contract. Where the service is used immediately at the customer's request, that right ends once the service has been fully performed, in accordance with the Code de la consommation.
• Invoices. Issued for every payment, with sequential numbering, through an approved e-invoicing platform.
• Late payment. Where an invoice is settled by transfer, late payment carries interest at three times the French legal rate, plus the statutory recovery indemnity of €40.

Privacy

GlobeWarn does not profile its readers, does not show advertising, and sells nothing about anyone to anyone.

Reading the site requires no account. Your theme, text size, time zone and language choices are stored in your own browser and are never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data removes them.

The server records ordinary technical logs — the request made, the time, and the responding status — as any web server does. These are used to keep the service working and to investigate faults.

The daily email, if you ask for it, stores your address, the continents you chose, and the dates you asked, confirmed and last received one. Nothing else — no name, no country, no record of what you opened or clicked. The legal basis is your consent, given by clicking the link in the confirmation email, and nothing is sent before that click. An address that never confirms is deleted after seven days. Every email carries a link that ends the subscription in one click, and a subscription that ends is not written to again.

Watch-area alerts, if you switch them on, store the address they are sent to, the areas you copied to the server, and a one-way fingerprint of your licence key — never the key itself. Copying the areas is a deliberate act: until you press the button they exist only in your own browser. Every alert carries a link that ends them in one click.

So that the same warning is not sent twice, each alert sent is recorded as the event it was about and the level it was at. That record is kept for sixty days and then deleted. If alerts are sent to a system of yours rather than by email, the endpoint you gave and the key used to sign deliveries to it are stored as well; the key is held in plain text because a signature needs the same key at both ends, and it is replaced rather than shown again.

Where a licence includes a telephone call, the fact that a call was prompted — the event, the moment, and whether it was made — is recorded, so that the promise can be shown to have been kept.

A licence records one row per browser using it: a random identifier that browser generated for itself, and the dates it first and last checked the licence. It is not derived from your device and means nothing outside GlobeWarn. A browser that has not opened GlobeWarn for sixty days is forgotten automatically.

Joining a licence with a work address stores the domain that address belongs to and, for ten minutes, a one-way hash of the code sent to it. The address itself is used to send the code and is not kept: proving that you work somewhere should not create a record that you read GlobeWarn. The seat that results is the same anonymous browser identifier as any other.

The daily email is free and carries, at its foot, a short description of what a paid licence adds, with the prices. Those figures are read from the licence table at the moment the email is sent, so they are the same figures shown on the site; if they cannot be read, that part of the email is left out rather than sent with older ones.

An alert with a position offers a link that opens those coordinates in Google Maps. Following it takes you to Google, under Google’s own terms; nothing is sent there unless you press it, and GlobeWarn adds no identifier to the address.

Data controller: DAGRANG SANG, at the address above. Under the GDPR you may request access to your data, its correction or erasure, a copy in portable form, or restriction of its processing. Write to [email protected] and you will receive an answer within one month. If the answer does not satisfy you, you may complain to the CNIL (cnil.fr).

Cookies

GlobeWarn sets no cookies. There is no analytics script, no advertising pixel, and no third-party tag on the page.

Several things are kept in your browser's local storage, on your own device: your preferences — theme, text size, time zone, language, and whether you have already seen a notice — and, if you use them, your licence key, the watch areas you have drawn, and a random identifier this browser generated for itself so that a licence can count its seats.

None of that is a cookie and none of it is sent to any server unless you ask for something that needs it: a licence key is sent to check the licence, and watch areas are sent only if you press the button that switches on alerts by email. Under EU rules this storage requires no consent, because every item of it exists to provide something you asked for. Clearing your browser storage removes all of it, and the watch areas are then gone unless you had copied them to the server.

If GlobeWarn ever sets a cookie or begins anything that identifies a reader, the site will say so plainly and ask before anything is set, with a way to turn it on or off that stays available afterwards. Until then it says, on the page, that it uses no cookies — because it uses none.

Intellectual property

The warning data belongs to the agencies that publish it, under the licences listed on the site. GlobeWarn claims nothing over it.

GlobeWarn's own name, design, wording, icons and software are its own and are protected. You are welcome to link to any page, to quote from the site with attribution, and to use the public API for your own purposes. You may not present GlobeWarn's work as your own, or copy the site wholesale.

If you believe something on this site infringes your rights, write to [email protected] with enough detail to identify it, and it will be looked at promptly.

Reporting a security problem

If you find a vulnerability, report it to [email protected]. Describe what you found and how to reproduce it. You will get an acknowledgement, and you will be told when it is fixed.

Good-faith research is welcome: testing that avoids harm to the service, to its data, and to other users will not be met with legal action. Please do not run denial-of-service tests, access another person's data, or publish a finding before it has been fixed.

Contact details are also published at /.well-known/security.txt.

Applicable law

This page and any relationship it describes are governed by French law.

Any dispute will first be raised directly, in writing, and both sides will try in good faith to settle it. A consumer may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform, or a French consumer mediator, before going further.

Failing agreement, the courts of France have jurisdiction. A consumer keeps the right, given by law, to bring proceedings in the courts of their own place of residence.

Changes to this page

This page changes when GlobeWarn changes, because it has to describe what is true today. The date at the top is the date of the last change.

A change that affects a paying subscriber's rights will be sent to them by email before it takes effect, and continuing to use the service after that date is what accepts it. Anyone who does not accept it may cancel, and access continues to the end of the period already paid for.