====== Alternate Email ======

An **Alternate Email** is any email address other than your VO email address (e.g. david@lookafter.com). It can be your secondary or personal email address, such as <name>@gmail.com, <name>@live.com, etc.\\

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==== A way to recover your VO account password ====
You can add an alternate email address to your VO account and use them to recover your account password.\\
If you happen to forget your VO account password or your account becomes compromised, you can request for a password reset and the confirmation link will be sent to the alternate email. ([[faq:profile:reset_user_account_password|How to reset account password?]])\\

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==== Adding alternate email address ====
To define your alternate email address, login to your VO account, go to **Email -> General**.\\
Key in the email address on the given field under **Alternate email**.\\
Click **Update** to save your setting.\\
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