Name: Alertable Emergency Alerts
Rating: 4.6 (409 reviews)
Author: Public Emergency Alerting Services Inc

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Description

Severe weather, floods, tornados, wildfires, earthquakes, bio-hazards and other disastrous events and hazards threaten our safety in Canada more than ever.

Use the Alertable app to notify you of disasters and hazards for locations you have chosen to be alerted for.

There is also a Follow Me option so that you can be alerted of emergencies wherever you may go, even if that is away from your chosen locations.

Key features:

• Canada wide alerts, from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system
• local level alerts, for local disasters and hazards
• fast, high optimized alert notifications
• severity, critical and advisory alerts
• location specific, alerts for only locations you are interested in
• follow me, alerts for where you are at
• maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for
• sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and SMS/message
• informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and instructions on how to remain safe
• usability, easy to setup and use
• accessible, full use by people with different abilities
• bi-lingual, English/French

Jun 27, 2019

Version 1.16

Minor improvements

4.6 out of 5

409 Ratings

Quick concern...

Another app that i've downloaded also claims that it delivers 'critical alerts', but unlike this app, it prompts me with a 'critical alerts' prompt when setting up the app that can be later toggled on or off in my iPhone's settings. Because this app doesn't have that, and because during the recent AlertReady test, this app didn't override my do not disturb mode, im just wondering how the 'critical alert' system in the app works.

Hi, thank you for your review. During the setup of the app, there's a step to select critical only alerts or critical and advisory alerts. In this app you cannot toggle critical alerts off, you will always receive critical alerts. The only type of alerts that you can toggle off are advisory alerts. You can choose your preference in Settings. Hope that helps.

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Good app but privacy protections?

Simple yet solid app, but the privacy policy seems generic & weak for an app the offers to track your location 24/7. Would want stronger language protecting sharing and use of my location information that is logged. Responsive customer service team.

Thank you for using Alertable and for your feedback. We appreciate your concern about the app's use of location information to provide alerts for where you are. We will consider better language for our Privacy Policy for this aspect. We welcome more feedback as you continue to use Alertable and as we continue to improve it.

Information

Seller: Public Emergency Alerting Services Inc
Size: 46.9 MB
Category: Weather
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Languages: English, French
Age Rating: Rated 4+
Location: This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
Copyright: © 2016 Public Emergency Alerting Services Inc
Price: Free