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How can I ensure security and privacy for my members?

When getting your site online, you will be sharing a lot of information about your organization with the world. You must take care in doing this that you don't share too much information about your members. Here are some tips for protecting the privacy of your users and to keep your website free of bad guys:

Use care in photo galleries. The world can see your photo galleries. Never use full names of the people in the photos, and consider not sharing names at all, especially in the case of children. In their case, it's best to first get parental permission to post photos.
Don't post email addresses. When posting text for news entries and such, don't share email addresses in these. Plain text email addresses will get harvested by spammers and will be sent unsolicited email. The email addresses in profiles are safe, because only logged-on users will be able to see these.
Consider requiring validation for accounts. By default, anyone can create an account on your website. This is usually a good thing, as it increases particpation, but if you run into problems, you may wish to validate accounts before they can be used. You can set this up under the "Preferences" item of the "Content & Layout" menu.
Consider requiring accounts to post messages. By default, anonymous users to your website can post messages in your discussion forums. Again, this is a good thing because you'll get a lot more posts, but if you run into problems, you can lock this down. This is also under "Preferences", and is effective especially with the account validation.
Don't be too liberal with admin rights. You can appoint various users on your site to be administrators over various parts, or the whole. Be sure that the person can be trusted before doing this, especially in the case of global administrative rights. A person can easily do damage to the site, whether maliciously, or unintentionally (if they're not good with computers).

As always, if you have any questions or concerns about security or privacy, just ask. Back To Support

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