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Who should create user accounts?: This entire website is freely available to anyone. Hence, you do not need to register and log in to view any of its contents. However, you are required to register and log in if you want to do one of the following: (1) contribute species pages or other articles and media files (photographs, videos, line drawings, etc.), (2) edit and review content of this website, or be part of the website teams, (3) use certain restricted features of the Distributions module, (4) participate in the Butterflies of India forum discussions. If you do not belong to any of these groups, you are not required to create an account. Of course, you could become a registered viewer of this website if you want, even if you may not want to do any of the above.

How is a user account created?: Click the "Register" link. This will take you to the registration page. Enter all the details, and click "Register". Please understand that registered users of Butterflies of India get certain privileges to edit and contribute material on the website. Therefore, to protect this website, we and all the other users of the website want to know who you are. So, you are free to use any login name and password you want but please register with your real, complete name (first and last names) to create your user account. The required fields are highlighted. A user account will not be created if you do not fill information in all the required fields.

What happens once I create an account?: Once you create an account, an email goes to the website administrators, who will review and approve it. If you do not provide your real first and last names while registering, the administrators will immediately delete your account without inquiry. They will also delete your account if your names sound fake or suspicious. Please understand that these steps are necessary to ensure that the community of our website users and contributors is kept clean. So please bear with these rules. In case you have difficulty in creating your account or logging in, or if your account gets deleted because you provided incomplete name information, email the web administrators (Mihir Chhatre or Krushnamegh Kunte). In most cases, creating your account and logging in should be a pretty smooth process without needing to contact us. Usually your account will be approved within hours of creating it, and then you are set to go.

Note on cancellation: Please be responsible while contributing any material to the website. Also be courteous while posting to the website user forum or responding to any topic and queries there. We reserve the right to cancel your account at any time without giving you any explanation if we find you offending these two basic civilities required of any website user.

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