Introducing Voyent Alert!

The District of Summerland has partnered with Voyent Alert! to provide notifications and alerts throughout the community. 

In times of crisis it is important that residents have access to trusted, timely and accurate information to ensure their own safety and that of their family and loved ones. In response to this need, the District of Summerland has chosen Voyent Alert! as the communication service provider for these kinds of events.

Receive notifications for critical events, wildfires, and flooding, as well as day-to-day communications such as garbage and recycling information, water and sewer notices, municipal facility updates and public engagement opportunities. 

Sign up now for routine and emergency notifications or download the Voyent Alert! app.

Once you are registered, you are automatically signed up for emergency notifications. Please include your correct address to receive notifications relevant for you. 

How to Register:

Registration for the service is FREE, simple and totally anonymous.

Get the Voyent Alert! app at the App Store or Google Play.

For email, text or phone notifications, get started here: https://voyent-alert.com/ca/community/#registration

What You Can Expect with Voyent Alert!

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 followed locations are provided.

Follow Multiple Locations: Voyent Alert! allows you to create and follow multiple locations such as “Kids School” or “Mom’s House”. Any event or communication related to your followed 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 following.

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 followed 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 right 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.

For more information, please visit: https://voyent-alert.com/us/community/