Why create a Camper account?

One big difference between this new version of campmyrtlewood.org and the old static site is this "Camper login" thing you see now in the left sidebar. "What's that about?", you might well wonder.

Having a login means we can allow campers to participate here in ways that are otherwise not practical or even safe. When you create an account, you'll be able to create new forum topics, add your own photos to our photo galleries, create polls, view the profiles of other member campers, and participate in various other ways as the site evolves and develops. Without this login threshold, the site would be wide open to spammers who could post inappropriate and unwanted material. Depending on our experience here with spammer issues in the future, we may find it necessary to further restrict the participation options of site visitors who do not login, but we prefer to leave it more open if we can.

At present, all we require to create an account is a name, an email address, and a password of your choosing. We're not asking too much, are we? It may develop that we'll require you to respond to an email sent to the email address you supply to verify that it is indeed your own valid address, but again, we'll skip that step unless it proves necessary.

In any event, we will never share any information you provide us with any other entity beyond Camp Myrtlewood Inc. Practically speaking, that means such information will not exist anywhere except for within this website's secure database.

We've also invested in a SSL Certificate, so that your most sensitive communications with the website will be encrypted once you are logged in. You'll see that the URL will begin with "https://" when your communications are encrypted, for example when you are viewing a Camper profile, including your own.