The Wharfe Valley Alert system is a system provided by Leeds City Council, designed to send out Emergency Alert messages by SMS text message and email.
It is designed to give advance warning of flooding to businesses and organisations located on the River Wharfe floodplain, within 500metres of the river, in and around Otley, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Arthington, Harewood Bridge, Collingham, Wetherby and Boston Spa, that are within the Leeds City Council Metropolitan Borough Boundary or within 500m of that boundary- where the River Wharfe channel provides that boundary.
It may also be used to warn businesses and other organisations of other major emergencies, with the potential to affect ‘business-as-usual’ within that area.
There is no cost involved for receiving the warning messages, but people registering to receive the messages must be key members of staff within the organisation, capable of forwarding the message to a much wider network of their own contacts- so each message recipient cascades the message out to their own contact list of staff, customers, employees, members, visitors etc via email, phone, text message or by displaying notices giving the warning message.
Up to four people may register from a single organisation/business.
All registrations may be subject to verification by phone/email by members of the Leeds City Council Emergency Planning Unit- telephone: 0113-247-4822 Email: [email protected]
We are keen to register senior managers within manufacturing, service and retail sector organisations, headteachers of schools, Practice managers of health care organisations such as Care Homes, Doctors and Dentists surgeries, local media organisations, Reception staff at Public Libraries, Secretaries and organisers of clubs, societies and voluntary organisations, etc located within the area described above.
In providing this system, we have taken account of both the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and the Data Protection Act 1998.
Information provided as part of the registration process is transmitted using 128-Bit SSL encryption, verified by GeoTrust Global. Your data is stored within an encrypted database. We will not pass on your data to any third parties. The information gathered is for the sole use of Leeds City Council in connection with Leeds Alert, and meeting the duties associated with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, to warn and inform you. In completing this form you give consent for us to store your data and use it for the purposes described above.
The encrypted database and data submitted in the registration process will only be accessible to Leeds City Council Peace & Emergency Planning Unit (LCC PEPU) as the system administrators. The system portal for issuing Wharfe Valley Alert messages is an SGC enabled SSL encrypted system verified by Verisign and will be used by LCC PEPU. The information we have asked for is required in order to provide you with tailored and targeted information. To remove yourself from Wharfe Valley Alert and any Wharfe Valley Alert related communications, including notifications of events that we run, please contact [email protected] or telephone 0113-247-4822. We will safely remove and destroy all records at your request. If you have any questions before registering, please contact 0113 247-4822.
If you would like to register please click this link and follow the instructions.
https://www.formstack.com/forms/index.php?1463751-AK2yCUAURx