Providers' Guide

Types of Products and Services
Accuracy, honesty, privacy and good practice
Making it work for everyone
Reporting problems
Disclaimer
Terms of Use

If you have a product or service that would be useful to people wanting to protect their homes and businesses from floodwater, you can share information about that product or service by creating a listing for it in the Mall. You can also share information about properties that demonstrate floodproofing techniques - the successful ones, the unsuccessful ones and even ones that haven't been "tested" yet.

If you haven't read the Welcome, please do. And, although the subtitles in the Providers' Guide are the same as those in the Shoppers' Guide, the content is different. We encourage providers to read the Shopper's Guide.

Types of Products and Services

Many disciplines contribute to reducing future flood damage. The Virtual Mall is for the one we call floodproofing.

Please list only products and services that relate directly to protecting buildings from flood damage by altering the building or the property on which it is built. 

Please do not list products or services related to community-wide flood control works, best management practices for water-quality, wetlands mitigation, floodplain evacuation or other related components of flood protection.

Accuracy, honesty, privacy and good practice

Vendors are responsible for the accuracy of their information. You will have access to your records for maintenance.

If you are listing a property that demonstrates the use of a floodproofing technique or device, please consider the privacy requirements of the property owner. The owner of the listing will be responsible for any violation of privacy caused by the listing.

Making it work for everyone

The Mall will grow and be a valuable resource if the shoppers and providers have similar understandings of its purpose and generally positive experiences with it. We appeal to all to use the mall for its intended purpose and to respect the limits established by the manager.

Please communicate to the Mall Manager any abuses of the mall, especially those that would dissuade you from listing your products and services.

Help us reduce clutter in the Mall, so people can find what they're looking for without having to deal with overwhelming amounts of somewhat related information. You can help reduce clutter by

• Listing only goods and services that are useful for on-site flood protection
• Listing goods and services only in the most inappropriate "rooms"; e.g. a backflow valve should be listed in the Back-Flow room, not in the dry floodproofing room, even though a back-flow valve would be needed in dry floodproofing (which is why we connected those rooms).
• Distinguishing correctly between products and people. There should be no people listed as products. Contractors, engineers and mitigation consultants, can be listed under their individual and/or company names. There is no provision for listing sellers in the Virtual Mall. Sellers of products may be found in distributor directories provided on he manufacturers' websites.

Reporting problems

You can use the Mall Comments Form, but we (the Mall Manager, Pat Skinner) would like to discuss any problems you encounter with this system. We welcome your suggestions for improving Mall function. In particular, we need to know if the listing forms and the "more info" buttons on the input forms provide enough information to allow you to complete the listing forms successfully and manage them to your satisfaction.

The Virtual Mall is an experimental educational project that stretches the traditional boundaries between the public and private sectors. If for any reason it becomes unmanageable or creates problems for the manager or managing institution, it will be discontinued.

Disclaimer

Information provided and linked from this site is for information sharing purposes only. Neither the LSU AgCenter nor any agency, officer, or employee warrants the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information contained herein or linked hereto.

The LSU AgCenter does not endorse any products, vendors, or consultants listed or linked on this site. The LSU AgCenter shall have no liability for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages related to the use and/or extraction of the information contained herein.

Terms of Use

Vendors are required to agree to the Terms of Use of this website prior to submitting product, service or property information for listing in the mall. The "I Agree" will be encountered upon your first login to the Mall as a New User. The Terms of Use document is written in the precise, legal language that can protect both the mall owner and mall users from misunderstandings and abuses of the service and website. The Terms of Use document accessed through this link is the same Terms of Use document that is presented for your agreement during the login process.

Thank you for contributing to the Virtual Mall for Floodproofing.

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