You can update your personal information, reset your password, and customize your online experience through this page. When you first create your ID through the login page, the only information that is required is an email address--which becomes your login ID--and a password. If your membership was created automatically through the Transition Guelph mailing list, your initial login ID and password will both be set your email address. To make your membership access more secure, we recommend you change your password to something else. Using the checkboxes at the bottom of this page, you can select which features you wish to participate in, and also what information you want to make available to other members. You can also join or leave various working group email lists, and control what emails you receive from Transition Guelph.

You can change any of your personal information at any time, including your login ID, should your email address change. You can change your password at any time too (note that to verify your password, you must enter it the same in both password fields.)

To unsubscribe from Transition Guelph, send an email from your login email ID to admin@transitionguelph.org with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line.

A Wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community online resources, as in this case. It is a separate entity and has its own help pages and online tutorial.

This feature displays a list of Transition Guelph members who have chosen to make their information available. Note that by going to the "Update My Personal Information" page, you can choose whether or not your name will appear in this list, and if so, which other information will be displayed. You can individually turn on or off the display of your primary email address, secondary email address, contact information (street address, phone numbers) and description.

Simply stated, our policy concerning the personal information of our members is this: We will make every effort possible to protect the privacy of our members, and to keep the information provided to us by our members strictly confidential. We do not display member email addresses on our web pages where they can be harvested by Spam-bots, and we will never pass on any member information to a third party (Note that the Transition Guelph Members Directory page is generated dynamically from the members database, therefore the information it displays is not static and thus not visible to "web crawler" processes that attempt to harvest personal information for spam sites.) In other words, we will never sell, give out, publish, disseminate, or otherwise make available any information about our membership, under any circumstances. Period.

The Members area of Transition Guelph is an interactive feature intended to facilitate discussion and the free exchange of ideas and information among our membership. It allows users to post messages to an online forum and to reply to forum messages posted by other members, exchange emails directly through the website, send emails to all subscribing members through an email distribution list, and access the Transition Guelph Wiki and Village Toolbox websites (NOTE: all of these items have their own help information elsewhere in this document.) Material posted or distributed through any of these features must conform to policy guidelines for acceptability and appropriateness.

In general, posted or distributed material must relate in some way to the purpose or mandate of the Transition Guelph Initiative, i.e. it should be related in some way to the objectives of the Transition Town movement. Content may discuss topics such as (but not limited to) sustainability, localization, self-sufficiency, community resilience, community awareness, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, ecological footprint reduction, environmental protection, food security, water security, land stewardship, other transition initiatives, other related organizations, and similar topics.

Any material posted to the Transition Guelph site or emailed to its members that is determined to be spam will be removed from the site and the posting account will be revoked immediately!

Material posted does not necessarily have to be verifiable in terms of its accuracy or objective truth; we encourage users to express their opinions. However users must not knowingly publish information that they know to be untrue and falsely represent it as fact. Also, users may not publish any material that could be considered libelous or defamatory under Canadian law, or any material that encourages hatred, ridicule or discrimination against an individual, group, or organization.

Any such material will be removed from the site immediately, and users who violate this policy may have their membership suspended, or permanently revoked.

Once you have submitted ten posts (either forum or mailing list posts) that have been approved by an administrator (and no rejected posts) you will then be pre-approved for your all your further postings, i.e. they will post immediately, rather than being held for approval.

You aren't obliged to give your name if you don't feel comfortable doing so. However, all of the interactive features of the website--such as the Message Center, the Members' Forum, etc.-- are based on the member's name. This is done to protect the privacy of our members by concealing their email addresses. But this means that each name in our member's list has to be unique, so that each member is identifiable. If there are four members, all going by the name "Mary" in the database, how would you know which Mary is the one you want to contact? Therefore, it's helpful to us if you provide two names. They don't necessarily have to be your given name and last name, they could be your first and middle names, if you prefer, or perhaps your first name and a nickname. Just as long as they help to make your name entry unique.

There's another reason why two names is a good idea: often, Spam-bots (automated programs that scan the web looking for mailing list signups) will sometimes attempt to insert a bogus entry into a mailing list in the hopes of using it to acquiring some legitimate email addresses that they can add to their spam list. When they do this, they will often put an entry in like "Incenealk" in the name field, and "efficaguigh@gmail.com" in the email address (this is an actual entry I found in our mailing list). As you can see, it's just one name, and a gibberish one at that. So, periodically I will run a process that scans our mailing list, looking for potential spam email entries (so that I can delete them) and one of the things it looks for is single names in the name field. So, this is another reason why putting two names is a good idea, so that your entry doesn't trigger this detection unnecessarily.

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These options allow you to select the kinds of emails you will receive from Transition Guelph. We want to be able to keep our membership informed and "in the loop", so to speak, but we don't want to bombard people with stuff they don't want. So here, you can choose! The ones we recommend you keep have been pre-selected for you, but you can make your own decisions.

Newsletters: Pretty straightforward. By choosing this option, you will receive our periodic Transition Guelph newsletter. It comes out, on average, once a month, give or take. If you choose this option, you should also choose the format you would like it in, either PDF or plain text (this selection is below the Email Preferences section.)
Public meeting notices: Again, this is pretty straightforward. You will receive brief notifications of upcoming general meetings, when and where.
Special event notices: Whenever Transition Guelph hosts an event, a film-screening, a public talk, an information day, and so forth, you will be sent a detailed email about the event. (Note that this is different from the "Keep me notified" option that appears further down the page. That option is for automatic notifications whenever a new event is posted to the website. The option here is for special email invitations and detailed notices.)
Urgent messages: We recommend you keep at least this option. It will be used only for urgent emails.
Volunteer info specific to me: If you have volunteered for a working group, this selection will allow you to receive emails relating to that specific group. Obviously, if you are volunteering, this would be a good option to select.
All volunteer info: If you choose this option, it will allow you to receive emails that are directed to volunteers in working groups other than your own, if any.
Working group meeting notices: If you are in a working group, and you have chosen the "Volunteer info specific to me" option, you will already be receiving email notifications of your own working group meetings. However, if you also want to receive notices of other working group meetings, select this option.
General messages: This is for any other relatively low-priority notices that we may send out from time to time.
Online Publications: Periodically, we may send out online articles and "E-zine" publications to which we have acquired redistribution rights, and are allowed to send out to our members. These publications maybe mailed out in installments if they are multi-part, and all will have some relevance to Transition in some way or another.