• to make ALAF and its action better known by a large public, in France and abroad,
• to provide the members of the association, in an exclusive way, with services and regular information, in particular on current or future projects.

The main features of this new website are as follows :

Enjoy the new ALAF website !

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The ALAF website, allows everyone to join online. Online membership is accessible from the “Join us” menu or from various buttons on the site.

To join, you will need to:

• fill in a form asking for your name, first name and email address as well as a number of other optional information,
• choose a payment method among those proposed: online by credit card or by wire transfer or by check,
• if you have chosen online payment, pay directly from our site via our partner Stripe, a payment gateway operator,
• if you have chosen to pay by bank transfer or check, send us your payment within the next few days.

Once your payment has been registered (immediately if you pay online), an account will be created for you on the site and you will be able to take advantage of the online services and information reserved for members.

We recommend that you pay online: it’s simple, fast and secure…. and it allows us to manage our members more easily and efficiently!

Membership renewal

At the beginning of the year, you will receive an email inviting you to renew your membership. To do so, simply click on “Join us” in the menu and select the Renewal option. Once you have logged in as a member, you will be able to:

• update the information that needs to be updated,
• pay your annual fee, as you did when you first joined, immediately online or by deferred payment, by check or bank transfer.

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• a login identifier: either the one in the format auxxxxxxm sent to you by email or, simply, your email address (which is easier to remember),
• a password that you’ll need to set.

How can I log in ?

To log in, simply click on the “green man” icon displayed, on a large screen, at the top right and, on a mobile or tablet, at the bottom of the menu that appears after clicking on “the three horizontal stripes”.

On the page that is then displayed, you only have to enter your login identifier (preferably your email address) and your password.

And, if I don’t have a password yet ?

The first time you log in to the site, you have to set and enter your password. To do this, click on the “Lost your password?” link and follow the instructions:

• enter your email address,
• click on “Get new password”,
• the system then checks that you are not a usurper: an email is sent to the address you gave; this email contains a special link, with a limited life span,
• check your incoming mail and, when the expected mail arrives, simply click on the link it contains; you will thus prove that you are indeed the owner of the email address,
• you can then enter the new password you’ve chosen or, by clicking on “Generate password”, let the system generate it for you,
• in all cases write it down carefully or, better yet, save it in the password manager associated with your browser or system.

You can now log in normally and access your member account as well as the member-only services and content.

And, what if I lose or forget my password ?

Don’t panic if you forget your password. Do as you did the first time you logged in: click on “Lost password?”, follow the procedure above and, this time, make a note of your new password!

What about security ?

The security of your account, and therefore of your personal data, depends largely on the quality of your password. If you set your own password, be sure to follow the recommendations displayed (about password length, mix of different character types…). At all costs, avoid passwords that are too easy to guess!

When the system generates a password for you, it ensures that its value is very difficult to guess, which protects you from illicit access to your account, and therefore to your personal data and, more generally, to the association’s site.

Of course, the generated passwords are difficult to remember. But that’s the price you pay for your security! To remember them, we recommend using a password manager such as those associated with the various browsers on the market (Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari). Of course, protect your password manager with a strong password, which will be the only password you’ll need to remember.

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