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Account Management
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Creating an Account
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Creating a SpotWalla account is simple and straightforward. Simply click the Create an Account link
in the upper right menu. The following information is required to setup an account:
- Email Address - Please use a valid and operational email address to which you have access and read
on a regular basis.
- Password - Your password can be just about anything except one or more whitespace characters.
Additionally, all whitespace characters at both the beginning and end of the password will be trimmed.
- First and Last Names - You can lie, but why?
- Username - If you choose to create public trips and/or join public location pages, your username
will be displayed rather than your first and last names. Your username can be just about anything.
- Region and Timezone - Setting your region and timezone allows SpotWalla to properly timestamp
your locations. This value can be overriden at the device level.
- Please read the SpotWalla User Agreement.
After completing the form you will need to solve a simple mathematical equation. The intention of this step
is to validate
that you're an intelligent being rather than an intelligent program poking around for something. When you think
you're finished filling out the form, click the Create button.
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Forgotten Password
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If you forget your password, you can reset it. You'll provide SpotWalla with the email address of your account.
An email will be sent to the address containing a link that will allow you to reset your password. If you don't
have access to the email address, then send an email to Support Walla
and we'll update your email address for you.
If you've forgotten your password, click this link to reset it:
Forgot Password.
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User Profile
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Your profile allows you to update the following information:
- Email Address - Please use a valid and operational email address to which you have access and read
on a regular basis.
- Password - Your password can be just about anything except one or more whitespace characters.
Additionally, all whitespace characters at both the beginning and end of the password will be trimmed.
- First and Last Names - You can lie, but why?
- Username - If you choose to create public trips and/or join public location pages, your username
will be displayed rather than your first and last names. Your username can be just about anything.
- Region and Timezone - Setting your region and timezone allows SpotWalla to properly timestamp
your locations. This value can be overriden at the device level.
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Preferences
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Your account preferences allow you to manage the following information:
- Location ID - Your location ID is used to mark your location icon on location pages you
choose to join as well as the Device Location Widget. This value may be overidden when joining a
location page.
- Default Trip Profile - This will determine the icon used to mark your
current position on an active trip map. This may be overriden for each trip.
- Default Map Type - This will determine the map type used
by Google Maps to display your trips. You can override this for each trip.
- Share Your Name - This is only applicable to SpotWalla's Family & Friends functionality
and does not affect the information displayed to the general public.
When this option is enabled, your first, last and user names will be shared with other
SpotWalla users as they search for friends. To enable this option, check the checkbox and click the
Update button.
Enabling this option is not required
to participate in SpotWalla's Family & Friends functionality. On the Preferences page below the
the checkbox you'll find a link. Simply copy the link below and include it in an email to your
friends. Tell them to click the link. They will be taken to SpotWalla where they'll have to log in
(if they're not already) and they'll automatically go to the friend request page where they can send
you a friend request. You will need to confirm the friend request.
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