Town of GFW Alerts!
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Get the Information You Need, When You Need It
The Town of Grand Falls-Windsor is pleased to announce it has chosen the Voyent Alert! service to keep you informed during times of crisis and for day-to-day notices.
What is Voyent Alert?
Voyent Alert! is a multi-purpose communication service provided by the Town of Grand Falls-Windsor to keep you informed of critical events like fires or floods as well as day-to-day communications such as road maintenance and closures, water advisories, etc.
How to Register
Registration for the service is FREE, simple, and totally anonymous. There are 4 easy ways to sign up:
1. Receive Notifications by Voyent App:
Download and install the Voyent Alert App from the Apple or Google Play app stores.
2. Receive Notifications by Text:
https://ca.voyent-alert.com/vras/client.html?e=sms#!/registration
3. Receive Notifications by Email:
https://ca.voyent-alert.com/vras/client.html?e=email#!/registration
4. Receive Notifications by Voice Calls (I.e. Home Phone):
https://ca.voyent-alert.com/vras/client.html?e=text-to-voice#!/registration
What You Can Expect
Personalized Communications:
Voyent Alert! provides informative communications. Critical information such as the distance and direction from an incident, time of intercept and preferred evacuation routes from your tracked locations are provided.
Track Multiple Locations:
Voyent Alert! allows you to create and track multiple locations such as “Kids School” or “Mom’s House”. Any event or communication related to your tracked locations will be forwarded to you along your preferred communication channel.
No Message Fatigue:
Voyent Alert’s smart alerting capabilities ensure that you will only get notified when a communication is relevant to you or one of the locations you are tracking.
Communications Your Way:
Receive alerts over a wide variety of communication channels including mobile apps, text/SMS alerting, email or voice calling. You can register for all or one of them.
Privacy is Paramount:
Registration is anonymous, and no information volunteered or derived is shared or used for marketing or data harvesting purposes. Locational information from your tracked locations is only used to determine its proximity to an alert event and to provide critical context within the communications (such as distance and direction).
Leaving is Easy:
Both mobile applications and web-based accounts provide access to an unsubscribe feature accessed via the menu icon on the top left of the screen/page. If the service isn’t working out simply click on the “Unsubscribe” button and you won’t be hearing from us again.
Support
For more information you can check out the FAQ and the Voyent Alert Privacy Policy.
If you require any assistance signing up please contact us at communications@townofgfw.com or 709-489-0173.