Managing Relations

Relations are how you can manage who has access to content on your Legacy. You can think of relations much like you would friends on a social networking site. They are your select group of people who you want to view your Legacy. Likewise, you're able to see their Legacy - it's a two-way street.

Sending requests

In the header, select Relations. There are two tabs on this screen - one for requests and one for your current relations.

From here, you may remove relations if you don't want them to have access to your Legacy anymore. At the top right of the screen, you may request another user to be relations if you have their email address.

When you click send, the user with this email address will get an email letting them know you sent them a request. Once they accept, they will appear in your list of Relations as well as on your dashboard page, alongside your other relations.

Incoming requests

When someone sends you a request, they will appear on your relations page.

You'll want to either pick accept or deny. If you click accept, they will be added to your list of relations.

Controlling Access

There are two possible settings for your Legacy, regardless of your relations (or lack thereof): private and public.

This setting can be changed by clicking "Edit legacy details" on your main Legacy dashboard.

• Public legacies may be accessed by anybody on the Ark Project. Likewise, anybody with an account may interact with the Alter Ego. This setting alone does not give them access to individual journal entries.
• Private legacies may only be accessed by the owner or by their relations. Only the owner and their relations may interact with the Alter Ego. This setting alone does not give relations access to individual journal entries.

If you want to modify the sharing options of a journal entry, open the appropriate journal's privacy settings - this is a small edit icon you can find when you view a video, text, or scanned journal.

There are three possible settings for every journal entry:

• Anyone: Journals marked as "anyone" will allow anybody with access to the Legacy to see the journal. This means that if the Legacy is public, anybody on Ark may read the journal. If the Legacy is private, any relations may read the journal.
• Only me: Only the owner of the journal may read it, regardless of if the Legacy is private or public.
• Individual(s): The journal owner may select specific relations in the list to have access to a journal. Anybody who is not explicitly selected may not read the journal.

In this list, click to select relations you want to grant access to. You may also select "Everyone" or "nobody" to quickly set or unset every person quickly. Click "done" to close the menu.