Privacy policy

This site is run by the Caribbean Drone Hub (CDH), an initiative of the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. The site is built and hosted for CERMES by Pellucid IT Inc. You can reach us at info@caridronehub.org.

• Contact form: your name, email address, subject and message, so that we can reply.
• Network sign-up: your name, email address, phone number, organisation, territory and the kind of drone activity you do, so that CERMES can review and approve your membership.
• Training registration: your name, email address, phone number, country, organisation and job title, the fee tier you choose and payment details recorded by staff. If you claim the student rate you upload proof of student status. We use these details to run the training, confirm payment and, when the CDH learning site (Moodle) is switched on, to enrol you in the course.
• Drone experts directory: details about drone professionals that CDH researchers compiled from public sources, such as their own websites and professional profiles: name, organisation, territory, role, thematic areas, certifications, fleet, links and, where published, email and phone.
• Staff accounts: name, email address and, if you sign in with Google, LinkedIn or Microsoft, that provider’s identifier for you. The site does not offer public accounts.

Profiles in the directory are public. Our researchers compiled them from information the professionals had already published, so that people can find operators, trainers and vendors in the region. They show the details above, including an email address or phone number where the professional had already published one. If you are listed and want your profile corrected, unpublished or removed, write to us and we will act on it promptly.

If you register for a Caribbean Drone Symposium we collect the same details as for a training registration, and keep them on the same terms: anonymised three years after the event, with any student-status proof deleted 90 days after the event. If you submit an abstract we collect your name, email address, organisation, the abstract and any file you attach. Accepted abstracts are kept with the edition. Abstracts that are not accepted are deleted after two years.

If you suggest an event we collect your name, email address and the event details, so that an editor can follow up. Suggestions are kept for one year.

The regulations library is a set of links to official sources. CDH summarises them as guidance only and does not host the documents, and following a link takes you to the website of the authority concerned, which has its own privacy practices.

The site uses the cookies it needs to work. Anything optional is switched on only with your consent.

• Training registrations: three years after the event, then anonymised.
• Student-status proofs: deleted 90 days after the event.
• Contact messages: two years.
• Declined network applications: one year.
• Directory listing requests: removed once the profile is published or declined, and within a year at most.
• Server logs: 30 days. Backups: 30 days.

Your data is held on servers run by Pellucid IT for CERMES. A nightly backup, including uploaded files, is kept for 30 days in access-controlled storage. We do not sell your data. We share it only with the services named above that are needed to deliver what you asked for.

You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Write to info@caridronehub.org. We may need to keep a minimal record of training attendance, which we anonymise.

We will update this page if what we collect or how we use it changes.