Terms of Use

Last updated: 12 February 2025

Acceptance of Terms

When you open a page on this site, browse the camp exhibit archive, or download a planning reference, you accept the terms set out here. That applies whether you are a field practitioner pulling shelter standards between deployments or a student reading a displacement case study for the first time.

These terms cover everyone who uses the site. There is no separate set of rules for registered users versus casual visitors. If any part of what follows doesn't sit right with you, the honest answer is simple: don't use the site. Continuing to read, copy, or rely on the material here means you've agreed.

Acceptable Use

Most of the people who reach this archive are working in good faith, and the rules below mainly exist for the rare cases that aren't.

When you submit anything to us — a contact form, a correction on a case study, a question about field standards — keep it accurate. Don't send fraudulent details, impersonate an organisation, or pass off invented data as field observation. The whole point of an archive like this is that people downstream can trust what they read.

Leave the site's security and availability alone. That means no attempts to break authentication, scrape at a scale that degrades service for others, inject malicious code, or probe for weaknesses you weren't invited to test. And anything unlawful, harassing, or abusive directed at our team or other users is out of bounds, full stop.

Use License

You're welcome to use the content here for personal, non-commercial purposes. Read it, cite it in your own notes, print a WASH checklist to take into the field, reference a shelter-planning diagram while you sketch a site layout. That kind of use is exactly what the archive is for.

What you can't do is republish or redistribute the material as your own — bundling our case studies into a paid training pack, mirroring whole sections on another domain, or reselling the imagery. Those uses need written permission first.

The text, diagrams, photographs, and curated archive entries remain the intellectual property of the site or the licensors who supplied them. A use license is not a transfer of ownership; it's permission to read and reference within the limits above.

No Warranties

The site and everything on it are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We put real effort into accuracy — the field standards and logistics references here are reviewed by people who have done this work, but we don't promise the archive is complete, current, or free of error at every moment.

Humanitarian guidance also shifts with context. A nutrition logistics ratio that fits one camp's caseload may be wrong for another, and standards bodies revise their recommendations as evidence accumulates. So treat what you find here as a well-organised starting point, not a substitute for the published version of a standard or for qualified advice on your specific operation.

Where a decision carries real consequences for people's safety or health, seek independent professional guidance before you act on anything you read here.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for damages that arise from using — or being unable to use — this site or its content. That includes indirect, incidental, and consequential losses: a planning decision that didn't pan out, downtime when you needed a reference, data you expected to find and didn't.

This limitation reflects the nature of a free, openly published archive. We share the material because it's useful, and that openness only works if using it doesn't expose us to open-ended claims. Some jurisdictions don't permit certain exclusions, so a portion of this clause may not apply to you; where that's the case, our liability is limited to the smallest amount the law permits.

Applicable Law

These terms are interpreted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the site is operated. Any dispute that can't be settled directly falls to the competent courts of that jurisdiction.

If a court finds one provision here unenforceable, that single provision is set aside and the rest stays in force. One faulty clause doesn't unravel the whole agreement.

Modifications

We revise these terms from time to time — when the law changes, when we add a new section to the archive, or when something here turns out to read less clearly than we intended. When we do, we update the date at the top of this page.

Continuing to use the site after a revision means you accept the updated terms. We'd encourage you to glance at this page now and then, especially if you rely on the archive regularly.

Contact

If anything here is unclear, or you want to ask about permission to reuse content, reach us through the Contact page. For details on how we handle the information you share, see our Privacy Policy.