Your profile, name and emails

Change your name, pick which emails you get, and see what only support can change.

Editing your profile

Your profile is at /profile, reached from the account menu in the top right, and three fields on it are yours to change: First name, Last name and Display name.

There is no Settings page in the app. The account menu item Your Profile opens /profile, and that one page — the Personal Information card, plus the Email Preferences card below it — is the complete set of personal settings.

Where each part of your account can be changed.
  1. 1 Open the account menu in the top right and choose Your Profile.
  2. 2 Edit First name, Last name or Display name. Each one takes 2 to 50 characters.
  3. 3 Press Save Changes. The page confirms with Profile Updated and sends you to your pools.

A first and last name are required before you can use the rest of the app. Until both are saved, every other page returns you to /profile, where a Complete Your Profile dialog opens. Skip for now closes that dialog and nothing more — you are still sent back to the profile page from wherever you go next.

There is no photo upload anywhere in the app, and no timezone or favourite-team setting. The cartoon-robot avatar in the header and the account switcher is generated from your account, so it never changes. Everywhere else — friends, leaderboards, member lists — you appear as coloured initials taken from your name, and changing your display name changes those initials and their colour.

Display name and pool nicknames

Display name on your profile is the name shown in every pool by default, and a nickname set inside one pool overrides it in that pool only.

Up to three names can apply to you. The app shows the most specific one it holds for the pool you are looking at:

  • A nickname set inside a pool wins, in that pool and nowhere else.
  • Otherwise your Display name is used, in every pool.
  • With no Display name saved, your first and last name are shown.

Display name is optional, and the form describes it as your default name wherever you play. Clearing the field puts your real name back everywhere.

  1. 1 Open the dashboard of the pool you want a different name in.
  2. 2 Find the Your Name Here card and press Change Your Name.
  3. 3 Type the name you want, up to 50 characters, and save it.
  4. 4 Leave the field empty to go back to your usual name.

The Your Name Here card only appears while you are an active member of a pool that is still running. Once a pool completes, names in it are locked, and the app answers that names are locked once a pool is complete.

Your email address

The Email address field on your profile is locked, so changing your address means asking support — there is no way to do it yourself.

Your address is shown on /profile but cannot be typed into, and an amber note beside it points at contact support. That is the whole picture: the app has no change-email flow at all, so nothing on the profile page will move your address.

  1. 1 Open a support request, either from the contact support link beside the locked field or from Support Center.
  2. 2 Choose the Account category.
  3. 3 Say which address the account should move to.

Pool invitations are matched against the address on your account: saving your profile attaches any invitation already waiting for that address. An invitation sent to a different address will not find you, so it is worth naming that address in the same request.

A new account has to confirm its email before it can sign in. Registration sends Confirm Your Email Address, and signing in before you open that link tells you to confirm first. Check your spam folder before asking for it again.

How to open a support request

Changing your password

The reset email is the only way to a new password: the sign-in page links to the reset page at /password-reset, and there is no change-password screen in the app.

  1. 1 On the sign-in page, follow the password reset link to /password-reset.
  2. 2 Enter your email address.
  3. 3 Open the Reset Your Password email in your inbox.
  4. 4 Follow the link in it and choose your new password.

Your profile has no password field, and no other signed-in screen has one either. The reset flow is the path whether you have forgotten your password or want to replace one you still know.

The request page answers the same way whether or not the address is registered: if an account exists with that email, you will receive password reset instructions. That wording is deliberate, so nothing arriving is not proof the address is wrong. Check your spam folder before trying again.

A suspended or locked account is left out of the reset flow entirely — no email is sent, and a reset link cannot be completed. If the address is right and nothing ever arrives, ask support.

See sign-ins and password resets on your activity feed

Emails we send, and turning them off

Email Preferences on your profile is the only place to choose which emails you get, each switch saves the moment you tap it, and today only Pool & friend activity actually stops any mail.

The card sits under your profile fields at /profile. Four category switches — Weekly recap, Pick reminders, Pool & friend activity, and News & features — start switched on, and there is no Save button: each one takes effect as you tap it.

Below a divider sits the master switch, Unsubscribe from all. While it is on, the four switches above are dimmed and cannot be changed, but their positions are remembered, so turning the master back off restores exactly what you had.

SwitchWhat it turns off
Pool & friend activity Invites, joins, join requests, friend activity
Weekly recap Nothing — no email is mapped to it yet
Pick reminders Nothing — no email is mapped to it yet
News & features Nothing — no email is mapped to it yet
Unsubscribe from all Every switch above, until you turn it back off
What each switch controls today

Three of the four category switches are wired to nothing so far, so turning them off changes no behaviour today. If mail you did not want keeps arriving, it is either coming through Pool & friend activity or it is an account email that no switch covers.

Account and conversation email is always sent, and no preference touches it: the confirmation email, the welcome email, password resets, support request confirmations and replies, resolved-request notices, and the notice sent when an account is closed. The welcome email is queued again every time your profile is saved, so it can reach you more than once.

Every email you can turn off carries an Unsubscribe link in its footer, and also declares itself so Gmail, Apple Mail or Outlook can offer their own one-click unsubscribe button. Those links only ever switch things off — they can never re-subscribe you — and they keep working for about six months. To turn something back on, use Email Preferences on /profile.

Using more than one account

You can attach several accounts to one browser and switch between them from the account menu without re-entering a password, but those links last only until you sign out.

  1. 1 Open the account menu in the top right and choose Add another account.
  2. 2 Sign in as the second account. You land back on your pools, with both accounts listed in that menu.
  3. 3 Click a name in the menu to switch to it.

Switching asks for nothing — no password and no second confirmation. The account you are using is badged Signed in, and the first account is badged Default once you have switched away from it. Both stay attached, so you switch back the same way.

Linked accounts belong to the browser session, not to your account. Signing out ends that session and detaches every account you added, so next time you start with one account and add the others again.

Each account keeps its own profile, its own pools and its own picks. Switching changes which one you are acting as; it does not combine them.

Getting help from a person

Signed in, support is a request system at /support: you file a request, get a reference like SP-1042, and the whole conversation stays on that request's page.

  1. 1 Open Support Center from the account menu, or from the contact support link on your profile.
  2. 2 Fill in Subject, pick a category under What's this about — Account, Billing, Pool, Picks, Something's broken, Something else — and write a Description.
  3. 3 Press Submit Request. You land on that request's own page.

Everything after that happens there. Replies from support appear on the page without a reload and are emailed to you, and you add your own with Send reply. The status says whose turn it is: New, In progress, Awaiting your reply, Resolved or Closed.

Resolved and Closed are not the same thing. A resolved request can be reopened — press Reopen this request, or send a reply, which reopens it too. A closed request is final: there is no reply box and no way to reopen it, so open a new request instead.

With no account, or with an account that is suspended or locked, use the Contact Us form on the public site instead. It files a real request into the same queue, but you get no confirmation email and cannot open the request's page, so support replies to you by email.

Open Support Center

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