Sign up & email verification

EDITORS: GROUP

• Separate sign ups are required for Colouring London editing, and for the Mailgun Discussion thread.

• For Colouring London editing, users are actively discouraged from providing the CCRP with personal data. Users are not required to add personal information to use the site. The site is free to view. For those wishing to edit, only a username and password are required. The email address is optional. If provided this allows us to send the user an email to reset their password if they forget it, and in exceptional circumstances contact a user directly if it looks like they are misusing the site, for example to let them know if we plan to disable or remove their account.

• The email address is stored in a database which can only be accessed from within the local network of the Colouring London application server, which is only accessible to select developers working on the project. Users of the Colouring London site can only access their own information (there is no "admin panel" or other kind of user with special access) and connect to the site using standard HTTPS encrypted communications. Documentation of crypt and gen_salt used can be found here.

Add info on: Can Turing provide email addresses to support communication with stakeholders e.g. team@colouring.athens or athens@colouring.cities and/or dataprotection@colouring.athens? Are there any alternatives to Mailgun that are recommended and free?

Add info on email verification