My profile

Personalize your experience by managing your personal information and privacy settings.

This information is shared only with the applications that you have authorized to access your profile. You can also provide demographic information that will help make your experience more personalized.

Additionally, you can manage your primary email, ORCID and password, review and adjust your privacy settings, and delete your account.

Edit your personal information

  1. Under the My Profile area of your dashboard, click Personal info.
  2. Edit your First Name and Last Name. Both fields are mandatory.
  3. Update your avatar:
    • If your avatar is empty:
      1. Click Upload photo.
      2. Select a photo from your device.
    • If you have an existing avatar in the past:
      1. Click Edit photo.
      2. Click Upload Photo.
      3. Select a photo from your device.
    • Remove your avatar:
      1. Click Edit photo.
      2. Click Remove Photo.
  4. Add your demographic information such as your Country, Research area, Honorifics, Suffix, and Language.
    Note: URLs cannot be entered as part of user's name and other text fields.
  5. Add your Research areas for a more personalized experience.
    The research areas are completed automatically from the Atypon taxonomies.
  6. Change your primary email:
    1. Click Change Email.
    2. Enter your password
    3. Add the new primary email and click Send code.
    4. Enter the verification code that was sent to your email to make it primary.
    Note: If the new email already exist in your sign in options, you can make it primary without further verification.
  7. Update your ORCID.
  8. Click Change Password to be redirected to Password setup at the Sign in & Security area and change your password.
You have successfully updated your personal information!

Edit your account settings and permissions

Review and adjust your privacy settings.

  1. Under the My Profile area of your dashboard, click Privacy settings.
  2. Adjust the permissions to suit your needs.
    • Record account activity: Controls the feature that records account activity and logs all actions performed by your account, such as when you logged in, changes to your sign in options, devices that were used, etc.
    • Automatic creation and renewal of institutional memberships: Allows CONNECT to keep a record of your IP addresses in order to automatically add and renew your institutional memberships.
    • Institutional membership usage: Allows your CONNECT account to associate with your institutional memberships.
    • Marketable profile: Allows the use of your email address for marketing communication related to CONNECT.
    • Searchable profile: Allows your profile to be searchable by users of collaborative applications such as Manuscripts that are members of the CONNECT network.
    • Demographic data usage: Allows the applications of the CONNECT network to access your demographic information and enjoy a more personalized experience.

Delete your account

Your profile and data will be preserved for 30 days after deletion of your account, in case you want to return. You may recover your deleted account by trying to log in to it within this period.

  1. Under the My Profile area of your dashboard, click Privacy settings.
  2. Click Delete account.
  3. Acknowledge your action by selecting the displayed checkboxes.
  4. Click Delete account.
    Note: Your profile and data will be preserved for 30 days after deletion of your account, in case you want to return. You may recover your deleted account by trying to login to it within this 30 day period.