Editing BeWelcome FAQs - Check-up and Update (section)

===Can I stop messages from going to my e-mail account? For me it's enough to read them on the website.===
There are different types of messages on BeWelcome with different possible settings regarding the forwarding to your e-mail account:
*<b>Personal Messages</b>: These are private messages from other members, for example requests to stay with you. To make sure that you always get these messages, even without logging on to the website, these messages will always be forwarded to your e-mail account. There is no possibility to opt out from receiving such messages. The idea of BeWelcome is to bring people together in real life and we consider a working e-mail account as one link to you in real life.
*<b>BeWelcome Newsletters</b>: From time to time (usually every three months) we send out a newsletter about developments on BeWelcome and in hospitality exchange. These newsletters will only be sent to your e-mail account, not to your BeWelcome inbox. If you do not want to receive the BeWelcome newsletters, you can change your settings in your [http://www.bewelcome.org/mypreferences personal preferences] accordingly: For the setting "I want to receive periodic news about BeWelcome by mail" choose "No" and then click on "Submit form" at the bottom of the page.
*<b>Notifications about local events</b>: Sometimes, local volunteers may send out e-mails to local members about hospitality exchange events in the area. These notifications are not commercial, they are about BeWelcome events in your area or about hospitality exchange subjects. If you do not want to receive these notifications, you can change your settings in your [http://www.bewelcome.org/mypreferences personal preferences] accordingly: For the setting "Notifications about local events" choose "No" and then click on "Submit form" at the bottom of the page.
*<b>Notifications from BeWelcome groups</b>: If your are a member of one or more groups on BeWelcome, you might have chosen to receive notifications about new posts in your group(s) when you became a group member. To disable these notifications, go to the respective group page and choose "Member settings" from the sub menu below the group title. There, you can choose "No" for the setting "I want to receive e-mail updates from this group". Click on "Update member settings" to save your changes.
*<b>Notifications from the BeWelcome forum</b>: You might also receive message from the forum if you have subscribed to topics or tags. To review and change your forum subscription settings, please to to your "[http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/subscriptions subscriptions page]" and unsubscribe from the topics and tags you no longer want to be notified about (just click on the "Unsubscribe" button).

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:[[User:Sitatara|Sitatara]] ([[User talk:Sitatara|talk]]) 17:04, 23 March 2013 (CET): Updated the FAQ on the website to this version.
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