MyCIMA

Privacy and keeping your personal information safe

Posted: Friday 08 May 2009 by Deirdre
Replies : 11
Keywords: email, identity, messaging, privacy, safety

Did you ever think posting contact details online might be good idea? Well think again - that information is easily abused by others...

We ask you not to publish email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers (and other personal details, like date of birth or bank card numbers) on the site as this is private information and sharing it publicly online is very risky.

Publishing your personal details online risks identity fraud, spam, harrassment, theft and a whole host of other unpleasantness... so our moderators may remove them from the site.

But do yourself a favour and please don't put them up here, because we may not notice in time and the damage may already be done! If you see someone else has done so, that's your chance help them and us - use the 'report content' button to alert us.

Discussions on CIMAsphere will be open to the whole world soon to read and join, when we go public in the summer, so even just posting your email address online risks attracting a lot of spam.

HOW TO USE THE WEBSITE MESSAGING FACILITY

Instead of publishing your email address (which is against our guidelines), there's the option to allow other CIMAsphere users to send you a message using our website messaging facility.

> Go to the Profile page of the person you want to contact, and click on the 'Contact  me' link under their profile picture. From there you can post a private message which they will receive via email. You will only get their email address if they reply. This allows each person to control their privacy and personal data.

> In the Account Settings area of your Profile Manager, you can chose to be contactable this way by ticking the 'Personal contact form' box.

There's more information and advice on privacy, and other issues in our Community Guidelines. Do let us know if you have any thoughts on them!

Thanks, Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)

sharing

Posted by Alice on Thursday 21 May 2009 14:24
how to use this?
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Account Settings not workin

Posted by Ahmed Muhammad on Monday 17 August 2009 08:00
I want to get in touch with other members privately. I selection the required option in Account settings. It is giving me an error "enter your e-mail address first". I don't know where to enter the e-mail address. there is no field there. In My CIMA my e-mail address is already updated Regards Muhammad Ahmed
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Contacting users using the web messaging system

Posted by Deirdre on Wednesday 19 August 2009 17:47

Hello Ahmed,

I have looked at your account and you should already be able to send messages to other users by following this process for each person:

(1) Go to the profile page of the person you want to get in contact with.

(2) Then look in the right hand column of their profile page for the block titled 'Contact Me', and click on the link that says 'Get in contact'.

(3) That should take you to a form where you can compose and send the email to the person you want to contact.

Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any further difficulties.

Regards,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)

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Account Settings not working

Posted by Ahmed Muhammad on Thursday 20 August 2009 19:31
Thanks Deirdre for your reply If other users can contact me via e-mail then my problem is solved. I know I can contact others privately but not sure others can privately contact me or not as my account settings still give error "enter your e-mail address "
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I want to add signature to my comments

Posted by Khaula Urooj on Saturday 12 September 2009 05:14
I want to add signature to my comments but every time when I click the "submit" button it gives an error stating "enter your e-mail address". How to fix it?
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Privacy issues

Posted by Khaula Urooj on Saturday 12 September 2009 05:19
I don't recokn the idea of making the CIMA board public, a good idea because due to the new settings our real names can be seen while we may not be wishing to do so. What do you say?
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Signature facility now working

Posted by Deirdre on Friday 09 April 2010 10:50

Khaula Urooj wrote:
I want to add signature to my comments but every time when I click the "submit" button it gives an error stating "enter your e-mail address". How to fix it?

Khaula, this issue affected me too! I have now had it fixed, so you should be able to create and edit your signature. If you have any other comments, please let me know.

Regards,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)

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Account Settings not working

Posted by Trevor Crawford on Friday 21 January 2011 17:40

 

Hi,

 

I keep being asked to update my email address each time I try to contact someone....where does this need to be done?

 Help please!!

 

Regards,

Trevor

 

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No email address in your CIMAsphere account

Posted by Deirdre on Wednesday 26 January 2011 13:10

Hi Trevor,

Sorry to hear about these difficulties you've been having. I have looked at your CIMAsphere account and there is no email address associated with it so you cannot send or receive messages, and that is why it is asking you to update it.

Could you click on your name > My profile > Account settings and do this? If you cannot, please email me on sphereinfo(AT)cimaglobal.com

I think I know the cause of the problem. You first logged in with a contact ID and password that you already had as a MYCIMA user, but there were two or more email addresses associated with that record we already had, which the CIMAsphere system would have entered as no email address, because it doesn't know how to separate email addresses in the data that is sent over from our CRM system when a "single sign-on" account is made allowing access to both CIMA websites.

If you email me, we can hopefully get this sorted out pretty quickly.

Regards,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)

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Running checks to ensure personal details are not misused

Posted by Goh Pei Loong on Wednesday 27 April 2011 06:41

Dear All,

Our personal data is never safe from hackers, insider-job and mis-used of it by other ppl.

But we can run checks, check with respective central bank our pledge and debt level. Any mis-used of identity can be made known soon.

Check our banks' balances( statement/online ) and credit cards statement spending details for any fraudulent usage or mis-used of our saving/current accounts.

In my personal opinion, try not to use mobile internet banking, once activated, robbers might used it for transferring victims' monies to their bank accounts.

 

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Review/update every 6 months interval consistently

Posted by Goh Pei Loong on Friday 20 May 2011 08:57

 

The above regular review/update will prevent misuse of personal data and reduce risk of fraud.

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