Working with Account Settings

You can manage Yuku account settings such as your email address, password, and time zone from the account setting pages. You can add or update your your mobile phone settings from the Account Settings page.


Account settings apply to your whole account, including each profile. To edit the settings for individual profiles, please read the profile FAQ pages.

Mobile

To add or update your mobile phone number:
1. Type the new mobile phone number in the Update Your Mobile Phone Number box.
2. Select your mobile phone provider from the list of mobile phone companies.
3. Type the letters you see in the human verification box.
4. Click the Submit button.

Email

On this account settings page you can see the email address that is currently associated with your account. This is the email address that you will use when you login to Yuku.

To change your email address:
1. Go to your Account Settings page
2. Click the Email link
3. Type the new email address in the "Update Email Address" text box.
4. Click on the "Submit" button to have a confirmation email sent to the address you just entered.
5. Wait for the confirmation email.
6. Click the validation link.

You will need to confirm that you received the email in order for the change of email address to take effect. This is a security precaution to protect you from your account being inadvertently changed to another email address.

Password

Use the Password page to change your Yuku Password.

To change the password associated with your Yuku account:
1. Go to your Account Settings page.
2. Click the Password link.
3. Enter your current password in the "Current Password" text box.
4. Then enter the new password you want to use in the "New Password" text box.

Yuku passwords may only contain letters and numbers. Remember that longer passwords that are not dictionary and contain letters and numbers are the most effective. Please keep your password in your head or another safe place where others will not find it.

Account Secret Q&A

Use the Secret Q&A page to set your secret question. The SQ&A is used to confirm ownership of an account. You will need to answer the question when you have a Help Ticket for help in changing your email address, resetting a password, transfering ownership of a board or other actions involving account changes or information.

To set/update your SQ&A
1) Select the secret question from the list.
2) Type your secret answer into the secret answer box below.
3) Click the Submit button

If you decide to answer the question with a quirky answer or with the answer to another question, to deter hackers, be sure that you pick an answer that you will remember a year or two from now. For example if you answer the question on what city you were born and you answer with the name of your first pet, or with a private nickname for the town (like Hell), be sure that you will remember that.

Time Zone

Use time zone account setting to set your local time zone.

To set your Time Zone:
1. Go to your Account Settings page.
2. Click the Time Zone link.
3. Choose your local time zone from the "My Time Zone" drop down.
4. Check the "Choose your time zone" box to set your timme zone.
5. Check the "Convert all time references to your local time." box to have all time references on the Yuku pages you visit to display your local time.
6. Click the Submit button

You will need to reset your time zone whenever your local time changes, that is for the beginning/end of Daylight Saving Time or European Summer Time etc.

Preferences

The preferences page allows you to

• Choose the number of topics you wish to view per forum page
• Choose the number of replies you wish to see per topic page
• Choose whether you want to override the domain settings and use your own all the time
• Choose which editor (wysiwyg/bbcode/none) you'd like to use
• Choose to be anonymous

Photobucket

The photobucket page allows you to link or unlink a photobucket account to your yuku account. Linking a photobucket account means that you can place your photobucket images into posts using the photobucket icon in the wysiwyg editor.