Terms and Conditions of Use

The CARIBBEAN CORONA CHRONICLES ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE (CCCOHA) makes accessible, manages, and preserves digitally recorded interviews of Caribbean participants about their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic as well as related documents. In doing so, we aim to encourage and support scholarship on the impact of the public health disaster on Caribbean societies and their development and to promote the research and global reach of The Caribbean Civilisation Unit, The Department of History and The University of the West Indies. 

USERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES 

By using the digital images, texts, data sets, audio and video recordings, and other materials in The Caribbean Corona Chronicles Oral History Archive, you agree to follow these conditions:  

  1. You will not infringe upon the privacy or confidentiality of any participant.  
  1. You will review and abide by the stated copyright status of the item, which is typically recorded in the rights statement. If you are unsure of the copyright status of an item, you will request clarification from caribbeancoronachronicles@gmail.com or via the Contact Us page.
  1. If you wish to make any use of the content that requires authorization under copyright, trademark or other legal principles, you agree to obtain all necessary permissions.  
  1. When using items from The Caribbean Corona Chronicles Oral History Archive, you will give proper credit to the creator and source (as stipulated in the “How to Cite an Item from The Caribbean Corona Chronicles Oral History Archive” section on the Citing this Project webpage of the official project website). 
  1. You understand that statistics about usage of The Caribbean Corona Chronicles Oral History Archive content may be collected through university and other authorized internet analytical services.

USERS’ RIGHTS  

Users may:  

  1. Access and use (subject to Terms and Conditions) publicly accessible materials.  
  1. Ask questions about content by contacting caribbeancoronachronicles@gmail.com. 

CCCOHA RESPONSIBILITIES 

The Caribbean Civilisation Unit of Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine develops, administers, and maintains The Caribbean Corona Chronicles Oral History Archive. 

 The Caribbean Civilisation Unit will:  

  1. Provide access to content, so long as it is not embargoed or otherwise restricted.  
  1. Preserve content to the best of its abilities in accordance with oral history archives’ best practices, such as distributed back-ups and file integrity checks. However, the Unit makes no promises that the data will be perpetually accessible or consistently preserved.  
  1. Follow The University of the West Indies policies and general best practices for information security and privacy.  
  1. Strive to increase the visibility of and access to CCCOHA content by making it visible to services such as Google Scholar and by making metadata available for third party dissemination.  
  1. Provide support to depositors and users.

CCCOHA RIGHTS  

The Caribbean Civilisation Unit may:  

  1. Withdraw content in accordance with our withdrawal policy (or for other good cause).  
  1. Refuse to include items not consistent with our collection policy.  
  1. Share publicly available metadata and content with third parties, such as search engines and library services.  
  1. Migrate content to new formats and perform other preservation tasks.  
  1. Administer collections, including by editing metadata for correctness or consistency.  

The University of The West Indies, The Caribbean Civilisation Unit and The Department of History are not responsible for the personal opinions and information shared by interviewees in this project.