Update your profile

You can update your username, address information, and password.

denotes information that you must enter.

  1. From the top of any Community page, click My Profile.
  2. The My Profile page appears.
  3. To change your contact information, such as name, username, password, address, and email address, click the Edit user profile and Password link at the top of the page.
  4. An edit page displays where you can change your personal information. Here are tips for some options:

    • Username: This is the name you enter when you log in.

    • Password/Re-type Password: This is the password you enter when you log in. Type it again to ensure that you typed it correctly.

    • Select question: This lets you select a question that appears on the page if you forget your password. If you answer the question correctly (according to the information you enter in the Enter Answer text box), your password appears on the page.

    • Answer: This is the answer to the question that appears on the page if you forget your password.

    • Email address: This enables you to receive all system notices, such as Create Web Site confirmations and changes in user status. It also lets you receive any site-wide emails that the Web Site or System Administrator sends.

      Note: Email is not required for registration by users unless you want to be a Web Site Administrator, or as a site participant, you want to receive email updates sent to all site participants. If you do not have an email address, you can get a free Internet email account at http://mail.localcommunities.org that you can access from any Internet connection.

    • Send me system mail: This enables you to receive all system notices, such as Create Web Site confirmations and changes in user status. This also lets you receive any site-wide emails that the Web Site or System Administrator sends.

    • Send me HTML mail: This sets the format for any email notifications you receive. Email notifications are notices of any new or changed content on a Web Site in which you participate. If this option is checked, you receive these notifications in HTML-formatted emails. If this option is unchecked, you receive them in plain (ASCII) text.

  5. Once you have changed your information, click Done. You return to the profile page.