Welcome to the Crisis Communication website including the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals. The web site aims at contributing to community resilience by providing a free open access public digital reference library and knowledge hub.

Privacy

We ask you to register when you want to add content on this website. Upon registration we may collect the following information:

• name and affiliation.
• contact information including email address.

Please note that online content is visible for any people on Internet. Upon registration you can choose to use your first/last name with or without the organisation you work for, or a pseudonym first name.

What we do with the information gathered?

We require this information when you register, to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our website.
• We may incidentally send non-commercial emails about new crisis communication research using the email address which you have provided.
• Incidentally, we may also use your information to contact you by email to ask if you could contribute to scientific research purposes, e.g. by a survey.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Research purposes

The content you place -for others to read- on our website, for example in the WIKI, may also be used for research purposes. In any articles related to content placed on the website, only anonymous quotations will be used.

Disclaimer of the WIKI

The Crisis communication WIKI for professionals is an online open-content collaborative initiative, that is, a project including individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. Please note that although we attempt to monitor additions:

• Use of and participation in the WIKI is at your own risk. You should not rely upon any information found without independent verification.
• The structure of the WIKI allows contributors to alter its content through using the internet.
• The content of any given part may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.

The Crisis communication WIKI for professionals, its personnel and participants do not, in any way whatsoever:

• make any representation or warranty concerning the accuracy, safety, fitness for purpose, currency or usefulness of the information in the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals or the qualifications of any contributors; or
• take any responsibility for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial or risk management), please seek a professional licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

When you place content in the WIKI, please note:

• By contributing to or participating in the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals, you may be exposed to legal liability. You are responsible for ensuring that any material you contribute to the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals sites does not expose you to personal legal liability.
• Material you contribute to the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals may be reproduced, changed, edited, modified or removed by third parties without consulting you.
• You are solely responsible for any costs, expenses or charges incurred by you in connection with the use of the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals.

Third party websites

This website includes links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse these sites. We have no responsibility for the content of the linked websites and do not make any representations or warranties that:

• any information in our web-site is consistent with the terms of those websites; or
• any conduct you engage in pursuant to information in this website will not contravene those terms and conditions.

Personality rights

The Crisis communication WIKI for professionals may contain material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased. The use of images of individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to personality rights, independent from their copyright status. Before using or contributing these types of content, you must ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else’s personality rights.

Jurisdiction and legality of content

Publication of information found in the website may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The website’s database is stored on a server of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. Crisis communication WIKI for professionals personnel do not encourage the violation of any laws; and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.

Crisis communication WIKI for professionals availability

We make no representation or warranty that you will have continuous, error-free or secure access to the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals or that defects in the content will be corrected. We reserve the right to delete or withdraw access to all or any part of the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals at any time.

Acceptable Use Policy of the WIKI

When using or participating in the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals, you must conduct yourself in a way that is fair, appropriate, lawful and not harmful to others.

In addition you must comply with the conditions below.

1. You must not:

(a) post any content or engage in any conduct that:

(ii) infringes or violates any laws or regulations;

(iii) infringes or violates another party’s rights, including privacy rights and intellectual property rights such as copyright, trademarks or confidentiality;

(iv) is false, misleading or deceptive;

(v) is defamatory, threatening, abusive, obscene, racist, discriminatory, offensive or indecent;

(vi) is commercial or can be considered product advertising;

(vii) imposes an unreasonable load on the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals infrastructure or interferes with the proper working of the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals;

(viii) is not relevant to the subject matter of the website;

(b) impersonate any person or entity, living or dead, real or fictitious, or falsely represent that you have any authority, experience, education, skills, qualifications or other characteristics that you do not have;

(c) post personal information of any other person without their express consent;

(d) distribute spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, viruses or any other technologies that may harm the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals or its participants;

(f) contribute or use any content other than in accordance with the Copyright section of the Conditions of Use;

(g) use any tags, codes, cookies or other data tracking devices to collect content for any purpose without written consent; or

(h) harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent.

2. By posting any content on the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals, you represent that you have the right to use the intellectual property in that content, and you grant license rights in accordance with the Copyright section of the Conditions of Use.

3. You acknowledge that any Crisis communication WIKI for professionals personnel who can control access to the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals may (but are not obliged to):

• block any person, including you, from participating in the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals; and
• delete or edit any content posted, if this Acceptable Use Policy is breached or otherwise at their discretion, without providing reasons or entering into any correspondence.

Moderation policy of the WIKI

The sites may be moderated by University of Jyväskyla personnel or other Crisis communication WIKI for professionals personnel.

In most cases, to encourage knowledge sharing, a post-moderation process will be used. This means that comments are published immediately and may then be reviewed. Normally, your first ever comment will need to be approved, so please be patient.

As indicated in the Acceptable Use Policy, Crisis communication WIKI for professionals’ personnel may (but are not obliged to):

• block any person, including you, from accessing or posting or otherwise participating in Crisis communication WIKI for professionals; and
• delete or edit any content posted, if the Acceptable Use Policy is breached or otherwise at their discretion, without providing reasons or entering into any correspondence.
• University of Jyväskylä may also change moderation processes at its discretion.
• If you believe that a comment has breached the Acceptable Use Policy, please contact us on: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Copyright

You may use and adapt material on the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals as long as you provide attribution for the source, do not use it for commercial purposes, and agree to permit others to use your version of the content on the same terms;

• when you contribute your own material to the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals, you agree to permit others to use your material in the same way.
• you must take care not to infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

The Crisis communication WIKI for professionals is an online open-content collaborative initiative, that is, a voluntary project including individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge.

This enables you to share, copy, distribute, remix and adapt this site’s content (we encourage you to!) However if you do, you will need to make it available for free. For example, you are welcome to incorporate guidelines, checklists and tools that are posted on the Crisis communication WIKI for professionals into an Ibook or Smartphone app – as long as you make it available to the public for free. Please also attribute in the form: "Sourced from Crisis communication WIKI for professionals" and provide a link to the site and the page where possible.

Use of content

This website and its content is copyright of University of Jyväskylä 2014. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

• you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
• you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not distribute or commercially exploit the content or transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system except with our express written permission.

How we use cookies

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We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyses data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to user needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

General

Some of the above is a simplified adaptation of e.g. disclaimer and guidelines at Wikipedia.

If you have any questions about the Usage terms and conditions, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.