Terms of Service

HaitiDocs is a public, read-only library of Haiti’s economic data, documents, map layers, and related public information. It is available on the web and as an app and connector inside AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude, served by the Model Context Protocol server at mcp.haitidocs.org. These Terms govern your use of the service.

Acceptance of these terms

By using HaitiDocs, on the web or through an AI assistant, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

The service

HaitiDocs is provided free of charge, requires no account, and is read-only: it retrieves and displays existing public materials and computed indicators with their source attribution. It does not accept, store, or modify user content, and it provides no write or transactional functionality.

Sources, attribution, and third-party content

The library indexes public materials from sources such as the Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d’Informatique, the Banque de la République d’Haïti, the Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances, the World Bank, the IMF, and others. Each result identifies its source, its documented rights state, and a source link when one is available.

Government and agency documents in Haiti often go offline. HaitiDocs may retain or serve a copy when its rights record permits that action. Holding a copy does not establish ownership, permission, or an open license. The publisher named in the catalog may not be the rights holder.

You are responsible for reviewing and complying with the license or terms of use of source material before reusing it and for providing any required attribution.

Licensing

The CC BY 4.0 grant applies only to HaitiDocs-authored explanatory text, metadata descriptions, classifications, and original design elements that HaitiDocs has authority to license. Attribute that material to HaitiDocs.

That grant does not cover source documents, third-party data, maps, photographs, logos, fonts, software libraries, or source material embedded in a HaitiDocs presentation. It also does not change the terms attached to an indicator series or map layer. Follow the item-level source, rights, attribution, and restriction information before reuse.

Each dataset carries the license of the body that produced it, and HaitiDocs cannot relicense it. Several of those licenses prohibit commercial use. Series drawn from the World Health Organization Global Health Observatory and from FAOSTAT are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, which is non-commercial and share-alike. Series drawn from the DHS Program, including the Haiti EMMUS surveys, are available for non-commercial research and analysis, require registration with the DHS Program, and carry the attribution it specifies. Every indicator page states the license of its source, and every CSV download repeats it as a rights note in the file header. Read the license on the page before reusing the series.

The copyright treatment of Haitian official texts, government publications, and public data is under review. Public availability or government authorship does not by itself establish an open license. HaitiDocs will not rely on a legal exception for hosting or transformation until the relevant item records a reviewed legal basis.

Corrections and removal

If you published a document held here and want its record corrected, its copy replaced with a better one, or the record removed, write to [email protected] and we will act on it. The same address reaches us for a factual error in an indicator series or a misattributed source.

Acceptable use

You agree to use the service lawfully and not to:

• place an unreasonable load on the service, or attempt to disrupt, probe, or circumvent its security or rate limits;
• misrepresent the service, its operator, or the origin of the materials it indexes;
• use the materials in a way that violates the rights or licence terms of their original publishers, or any applicable law.

No warranty

The service and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. While we aim for accuracy, the data and documents may be incomplete, delayed, contain errors, or be superseded. Nothing provided by HaitiDocs is professional, financial, legal, or investment advice. For decisions of consequence, verify figures against the cited original sources.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator of HaitiDocs will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from your use of, or reliance on, the service or its content.

Availability and changes to the service

The service is offered on a best-effort basis and may be changed, suspended, or discontinued at any time without notice. Specific datasets, documents, or layers may be added, updated, or removed as sources change.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the service evolves or as platform requirements change. Material changes will be reflected by the “Last updated” date above; continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by applicable law. Nothing in them limits any rights you may have under mandatory consumer-protection or other laws of your place of residence.

Contact

For any question about these Terms, contact [email protected].