> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/applicant/your-profile.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

`My profile` holds what you set for this organisation: your saved signature and which of its
emails you receive. Your name, email address, password, two-factor settings and sessions are
managed in your Backed account, which you use for every organisation.

## Manage your account

1. Select your name, at the foot of the menu on a computer, or at the top of the page on a phone or tablet, to open `My profile`.
2. Select `Manage your account`.

Your account has the tabs `Profile`, `Mobile and two-step verification`, `Email and password`,
`Active sessions` and `Delete account`. When applicant profiles are turned on it also has
`Applicant profiles` and `Sharing`: see [Applicant profiles and sharing](backed-profiles.md). To
change your email address, open `Email and password`,
enter the `New email address`, `Confirm your password` and select `Update email`.

If `Active sessions` shows a session you don't recognise, end it, change your password and select
`Report unauthorised use of your account` under the list to email Backed support.

## Save a signature

A saved signature lets you sign a contract with `Use my saved signature`.

1. Under `Signature`, choose a `Signature image`: a PNG or JPEG, up to 2 MB.
2. It saves straight away. You see `Signature saved`.

Select `Remove signature` to delete it.

## Choose which emails you receive

1. Under `Email Preferences`, find `As an applicant` (and any other role you hold here).
2. Turn each email on or off.
3. Select `Save email preferences`.

Emails about your account, such as sign-in codes and security notices, are always sent.

`Broadcasts` are the general emails an organisation sends to many people at once. Each one ends with
a link to unsubscribe from broadcasts without signing in; the page it opens also offers `Subscribe
again`. Emails about your own applications and tasks are not affected, and an organisation can
still send you a service message it must send, such as a changed deadline.

## Get text messages

Some organisations also send a text beside an email, such as a reminder that something is due.

1. Under `Notification channels`, turn on `Text messages`.
2. If you have no verified mobile, select `Verify your mobile`, verify it in your Backed account
   under `Mobile and two-step verification`, then come back and turn `Text messages` on.

Every text ends with a link. It opens a page with `Open`, which takes you to the record (you may be
asked to sign in), and `Stop text messages`, which turns texts off straight away. You still get
emails. To get texts again, turn `Text messages` back on under `Notification channels`. A link works
for 30 days.

If the section says `This organisation does not send text messages`, there is nothing to turn on.

## Add your dates to a calendar

Under `Calendar feed`, you can see this organisation's dates in Outlook, Google Calendar or any
calendar app: funding rounds opening and closing, your Milestone due dates and your own tasks.

1. Select `Create link`.
2. Select `Add to Outlook` or `Add to Google Calendar`. For any other calendar app, select
   `Copy link` and add it there as a subscription.

Each event shows only a number, a title and a link. Your calendar checks for changes about once an
hour. Keep the link private: anyone who has it can see these dates. If it has been shared by
mistake, select `Reset link`. Calendars subscribed to the old link stop updating straight away, so
add the new link to them again.

## Updates to our terms

When Backed updates its Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, you see `Updates to our terms` the next
time you sign in, before anything else opens.

- For the Terms of Use, select `Read the updated Terms of Use`, then `I accept` to keep using
  Backed. If you don't accept them, you can `Sign out`.
- For the Privacy Policy, read what changed and select `Continue`.

Backed's current terms, privacy policy and cookie notice are in the Legal Centre on the Backed
website, at backed.giving/legal.

## See also

- [Contracts](contracts.md)
- [Troubleshooting signing in](troubleshooting-signing-in.md)