EWC Hub Terms of Use & Intellectual Property Notice

Effective November 2026. Platform owners: Rise ôver Run (RôR) Strategies, LLC and Engage ("Platform Owners").

1. Purpose and permitted community use

The Emergency Weather Center (EWC) Hub is a community life-safety and regional coordination platform. Community members, outreach workers, transit personnel, volunteers and verified EWC Operators may use this site to seek shelter, coordinate emergency weather activations, sign up for volunteer shifts or supply needs, and support participating centers. This permission is limited, non-exclusive and can be revoked.

2. Safety: please read

In an emergency, call 911.
A spot request is a request for a call back, not a reservation. A spot is never guaranteed.
Open status, hours, bed and space counts, and weather outlooks are posted by centers and partners and can change or be out of date. Call the center to confirm before you travel when you can.
The site is provided "as is". The Platform Owners and participating centers are not responsible for decisions made using information on this site, to the extent the law allows.

3. Privacy

We collect as little as possible. A spot request stores only a name, phone number, number of people and who asked, and is archived the next day. Volunteer and operator sign-ups store contact details so centers can reach you. We never ask for sexual orientation and do not sell your information. Read our full Privacy Policy.

4. The EWC Hub's design and workflows

This platform is built on open-source software components, which remain under their own licenses. The EWC Hub's operational design, including its workflows, weather-threshold activation design, operator status and capacity updates, spot-request routing, volunteer and supply sign-up process, content and branding, is the work of Rise ôver Run (RôR) Strategies, LLC and Engage. All rights reserved.

5. What you agree not to do

By using any public or signed-in part of this site, you agree that you will not, yourself or through a third party, consultant or agency:

copy, clone or create derivative applications modeled on the EWC Hub's workflows, forms or operational design for commercial use;
use scrapers, bots, crawlers or data-mining tools to extract operator data, volunteer information or system configuration from this site;
register for or use an Operator, Volunteer or Administrator account for competitive benchmarking, software replication or resale; or
remove, hide or alter any copyright or attribution notices on the platform.

6. Licensing for other communities

The EWC Hub and related modules are available for licensing and implementation by Counties, Continuums of Care (CoCs), Tribes, healthcare systems and public agencies through Rise ôver Run (RôR) Strategies. To bring this platform to your community, contact us at rorstrategies.org.