User Name: This is your IAM page name.

First & Last Name: This is your first and last name.

Primary Email Address: This is the primary email address you want to associate with your account, It is also the email address you will log into your account with. This is the email address we will use to send email confirmations and use to contact you with information about your account.

Send me an email along with my IAM messages: Get notified via email when you receive a message on IAM.

Enter to win FREE BME gear: By checking this box, you're entering into random BME contests to seceive free t-shirts, stickers and other surprise gifts in the mail.. The winners of these contests are drawn at random. The only people that are entered into BME's contests are those who have checked this box and entered in their mailing addresses. You must also select your t-shirt size so that we know what size shirt to send you in the event that the prize is a BME shirt.  BME will never sell, rent, loan or abuse your personal information. Packages from BME will always be discrete.

Address: This is the shipping address as well as the location associated with your account. BME will select members at random to send surprises like free t-shirts and sticker packs. Without adding your address and selecting the "Receive Mail from BME" check box, you cannot be entered into the monthly drawings for free BME gear.

Entering your address will also give you access to more features on IAM as it will allow events to display the distance from you as well as helping to arrange carpool information.

Shirt Size: This is the shirt size that you wear for the shirts that we will send out in our contests. In order to be entered into our contests, you must select the box above as well as enter in your mailing address AND your desired t-shirt size.

Phone Number: This is the number associated with your account. We need a phone number in order to send out mail.

Date of Birth Your date of birth determines if your account is an "Adult" or "Youth" account. If your birthday is incorrect and you need to change it and that would change your birthday from being a "Youth" account to an "Adult" account or "Adult" to "Youth", you will need to contact [email protected] and verify your date of birth in order to change it.

It is important that this information be correct in order to protect our community, Please respect that.

Entering a birthday that you know is incorrect in order to put you into a category that is not appropriate for your age group is a violation of BME's Terms of Service and can lead to the suspension of your IAM account.

Gender: Your gender helps our user search and user match functions to provide more accurate results.

If the gender option that is best suited to your gender is not an available option, please contact [email protected] so that we may add it to the list.

Change Password: This changes the password for your account. In order to change your password, you must enter in your current password.

Main Description: This is the main field that displays at the top of your IAM page. You can use HTML and put whatever you want into your main description. Most people use it to include their interests, information about them, links to their hobbies or other websites as well as whatever they'd like to share with other members of the community on a more permanent basis.

This is a last resort tool to block individual users or groups of users, from viewing your page by blocking their ISP or IP address. It should not be used except in the event of an emergency. If a user is harassing you or damaging your experience on IAM, please report them to the TOS Panel.

Enter in the information for the users that you want to block. Be careful with the information that you enter in as you could not only block the person that you want to but also other users. The best way to block a specific individual is by entering their specific IP address. If you don't now their address, the next step would be to block their ISP. This will also block any other user that uses their ISP. If you block a very popular ISP, you will block a very large portion of users.

We strongly suggest that you use the function to block a user by their IAM user name instead of by their ISP. This is a last resort. Please do the responsible thing and report harassment to the TOS Panel. IAM is a safe space and everyone should feel safe in this community.

As BME has been around since 1994, our members have used multiple email addresses over that time. We've always associated the email address that made the submissions as the "owner" of the content that was submitted. With the launch of the new BME galleries, we've made it so that users can manage their current and past submissions to BME with one account instead of the multiple accounts that used to be generated with each new submission. In order to merge the multiple accounts with different email addresses, we've made it so that users can "claim" an email address and add it to their account. The email address that you set as your "primary email address" will be what is associated with new content that you submit to BME as well as your IAM page.

In order to verify that all of your older content has been merged into the new account, please enter any email addresses that you may have used to submit to BME. The best thing to do is to enter in ANY email address you have ever used in the past. You never know if you accidentally submitted something to BME under that email address. Don't worry about trying too many email addresses. If the system can find it, it will send you a confirmation email. Follow the directions in the email to verify your ownership of the email address and the associated submissions.

Don't worry If you don't have access to the email address anymore, please contact [email protected] to address that issue!

You can easily change the information BME displays to other users.

Check the boxes to display your email address, location or date of birth.

Show my page to:

IAM Members Only: Select this option to only allow other logged in IAM members to view your page.

Limited Visitors: Select this option to allow registered members of BME, who don't have active IAM pages yet or other visitors who aren't logged in, to view the first page of your IAM journal. Visitors will not be able to zoom in on photos or view forums.

All Visitors: Select this option to allow registered members of BME, who don't have active IAM pages yet or other visitors who aren't logged in, to view your entire IAM journal. This setting allows your IAM page to be viewed past the first page. Visitors will not be able to zoom in on photos or view forums.

A pre-IM message is displayed to people when they've decided to contact you, but before they submit their message. You can use this to discourage certain types of communication (for example, "Please don't contact me if you just want a date").

Away message is displayed after someone sends you a message; you can use this to indicate that you are on vacation, or that you may contact them by a certain date.

Body Modification Interests: Select your interests in body modification. This helps you to show up in user match results for other members that are searching for users with similiar interests.

Please only select the body modification options that you are seriously interested in and would like to appear to other users as interested in these particular interests.

PLEASE NOTE: These choices are very old. They're from the original user match options on IAM from 2000. We will be updating them very soon.

General Interests: Select the options that you are interested in. This helps you to show up in user match results for other members that are searching for users with similiar interests.

Please only select the options that you would like others to see you as interested in.

PLEASE NOTE: These choices are very old. They're from the original user match options on IAM from 2000. We will be updating them very soon.

Profession: Plese select the profession that you are currently working in. This helps you to show up in user match results for other members that are searching for users with certain professions.

Please only select the profession that you would like others to see that you listed yourself as the profession that you are employed in.

PLEASE NOTE: These choices are very old. They're from the original user match options on IAM from 2000. We will be updating them very soon.

Personal Life: Select the characteristics from the list that you identify with. This helps you to show up in user match results for other members that are searching for users with similiar interests.

Seeking: This is the type of relationships that you are currently interested in starting with other members of the community. 

• N/A - Not Seeking: You are not looking to meet people from IAM in real life.
• New Friends: You are interested in meeting new people for a non sexual relationship.
• Short-term Dating: You are interested in casual dating without long term commitments.
• Long-term Dating: You are looking for a serious partner that can lead to marriage.
• Activity Partners: You are looking for someone to join you in non sexual activities.
• Long Distance Penpals: You are looking to make new friends but not to meet in person.
• Casual Sex: You are looking to have no strings attached casual sex.

Current Relationship Status: This is the current relationship that you are in. 

• Single: You are not currently in a commited relationship and are free to date.
• In a relationship: You are currently in a commited relationship and not available to date.
• Engaged: You have asked someone to marry you and they have accepted or you have  accepted a marriage proposal. 
• Married: You are married, either legally or common law.
• It's complicated: We all know all relationships are complicated but you know when it's like this. You're not broken up but you're not together, you're still hooking up but you're dating other people. It's just.. complicated.
• In an open relationship: You're in a committed relationship with another person but you're allowed to have sex with other people.
• Widowed: Your spouse has passed away and you are still in the grieving process.
• Seperated: You and your spouse have split up but are not officially divorced.
• Divorced: You are legally divorced from your spouse.
• In a domestic partnership: You are in a commited same sex relationship.
• In a civil union: You are in a same sex marriage. 

Orientation: This is your sexual orientation. If there is an option that you feel suits you best and it is not listed, please contact us at [email protected] so that we can add it.

• Straight: You are attracted to members of the opposite sex.
  
• Heteroflexible: You are mainly attracted to members of the opposite sex but would consider sexual relations with members of the same sex.
  
• Bisexual: You are equally attracted to members of the same sex and the opposite sex and open to having a relationship with someone of either gender.
  
• Homoflexible: You are attracted to members of the same sex but are open to sexual relations with members of the opposite sex.
• Gay: You are a man who is attracted to other men.
  
• Lesbian: You are a woman who is attracted to other women.
  
• Queer: You are attracted to members of the same sex or transexual persons.
  
• Pansexual: You are sexually, romantically or emotionally attracted towards people of all gender identities and biological sexes.
  
• Fluctuating/Evolving: Your sexual attraction to others is constantly changing.
  
• Asexual: You are not sexually attracted to either gender.
  
• Unsure: You are not sure yet how you identify sexually.
  
• Not Applicable: None of these descriptions apply or you feel that you do not want to label your sexual desires. For the sake of the user match, please choose whatever describes you most accurately.

Select the language you would like to use throughout the site. Note that not all language options are presently available and we would appreciate volunteers to help us translate the site for us. Please contact [email protected] if you'd like to help translate the site.

Enter the name of the City in which you currently reside; this will be used for matching you with other users.

Your billing information will be used in order to charge your credit card. If this information is not correct, your credit card may be rejected, and your subscription may experience delays in service.

Please make sure to keep your credit card billing address up to date.

Your credit card information will be used to cover any balance you have for various BME services. You must have a credit card on file in order to use automatically billing services.

We only keep the last 4 digits of your credit card and the expiration date on our server. When you enter your credit card, we get an authorization token from our credit card processor. We do not store your credit card information on our servers.

Your subscription history displays that various products and services that you've purchased from BME.

There are two formats that your subscription will appear as. One does not have the ability to automatically renew and the other does. The first one is a non-renewing subscription.

• Title: This is the name of the subscription.
• Start Date: This is the date your subscription started.
• End Date: This is the date your subscription will end.

This is a renewing subscription.

• Title: This is the name of the subscription. 
• Start Date: This was the date your subscription started.
• Auto Renew: This will say yes to indicate that this membership auto renews and it will display a link to cancel next to it. In order to cancel the membership, please click cancel.
• Next Renewal (estimated): This is the estimated date when your subscription will renew next.

This page allows you to apply to be a verified professional piercer or tattoo artist on IAM.BME.COM. This gets you recognition and promotion and a free account here, although in return it is expected that you add your pictures to it the BME archives when appropriate.

If you aren't actually a piercer or tattoo artist, please don't fill out this form.

You can transfer your IAM access to another user; if you do this, you will no longer have your full IAM access, so proceed with caution!

Our private messaging system allows you to send messages to users on IAM without giving out your email address or other personal information.

Your inbox currently contains all of the messages that were stored in your old IAM inbox and outbox. We are working on importing the archived messages from the original IAM. They have not been deleted and no data will be deleted off of the old site.

We are still working on completing the messaging system. There will be better storage of your IAM messages so that it's easier to access. There will be a better indication of new messages and you will be able to send photos through messages. Please give us time as we're working very hard on all of this.

Please contact us if there is something that you need that you do not have access to. 

Media is the core of IAM. You can upload pictures, videos and stories, and share these with other uesrs on both IAM and BME.

All My Media: This shows you all of the content that you have uploaded to IAM and BME.

The title above the photo indicates where the photo is located. This is typically the name of a forum on IAM. If it is a six character random name, that means it's from your journal entries. Or if it is from your submissions to BME then it will have the title of the gallery on BME that it is located in.

(Published)/(Not Published): This indicates if it has been published or not published on BME with Published meaning it has been and Not Published meaning it has not been published on BME, only on IAM.

Edit/Delete: This allows you to edit the information associated with the photos as well as submit them to BME. Delete allows you to delete the photo. Please be careful using the delete option as if it was a photo submitted to BME, then you could possibly lose the membership that you were granted to BME.

Unpublished Media: This shows all of the media that has NOT been published on BME. It includes your IAM gallery photos, your IAM forum uploads, IAM journal entries and anything else that you have uploaded but not submitted to BME.

Photos/Videos/Stories: This sorts your media so that you only look at which ever media type that you select.

The larger section of Photos, Videos and Stories that are below the unpublished media section that have numbers next to them indicate what has been published to BME. They include the main category type that the images were submitted and published to. Please check these photos/videos/stories and update them with more information including modification tags and artist information.

You can fully customize your IAM page by adding your own logo, changing the background, or altering the colors of various parts of the site.

Upload a custom logo: This will change the background for the BME logo in the title/navigation bar. Upload your image and then select on the following page what part of the image you'd like to have displayed.

Upload a background image for your page: This will add an image to the background of your IAM page.

Customizing the rest of your page: Editing your theme is easier than ever. Once you click in the field that you want to change, a "color picker" will open and help you select the color that you like. You can also browse web safe HEX color codes by clicking here. The color chart will open in a new window.

To enter your color choices manually, please make sure to use the # sign followed by the 6 character code. Once you've correctly entered a color core, the field will change to the corresponding code's color.

Here is what the "color picker" looks like:

We're still working out a couple of bugs that occur when you manually enter in the color codes. It doesn't consistently make the changes to your IAM theme. When you use the "color picker", the changes that you make will take effect. We are working on fixing this.

You can slide the sliders up and down to get the various colosr that you're looking for. Then select the color in the large box on the left. The color on the left of the two identical sized boxes on the right half of the "color picker" is the color that you are selecting. Click on the colorful circle on the bottom right side and the color code will appear in the field that you were editing. It will also change the color of that field to the color that you have selected. 

To change the color or restore the default, delete the code from the field you want to change. The field will retain the color of the deleted code until you save visual theme.

Each of the following sections links to a specific part of your page, similar to how it worked on the original version of IAM.

Page background:  This is the background of your IAM page. If you upload an image and change the color, double check to make sure the two don't clash with each other.

Page header background: This is he background for the Navigation image where the BME.com text is. It only changes a portion of the background. It also changes the background of the IAM "bread crumb trail" which shows you where you are on IAM. It does not change the background for the Gallery, IAM, ZINE, Wiki, Ask, 411 or Shop links.

Page header title: This changes the text color for the Gallery, IAM, ZINE, Wiki, Ask, 411 and Shop links.

Page header text: This changes the text at the very top of the page that displays your username and the text "Safe Mode" as well as your username displayed at the end of the IAM navigational bread crumb trail. It is for the text that are not links.

Page header hyperlink: This changes the hyperlinks at the very top of the page that displays the links "Logout", "My IAM Page", "Edit Profile & Account",  the links "BME > IAM" displayed at the beginning of the IAM navigational bread crumb trail and the links for your message/forum notifications.

Header Navigator: This changes the background for the IAM navigation that is located above the IAM bread crumb trail. It is the background behind the links to "IAM Home", "Search", "Events", "Forums", "Tech Support" and "Help".

IAM header background: This changes the background behind where your username, location, days until your birthday, and if you're an adult or not.

IAM header title:

IAM header text: This changes the color of the text for your location, days until your birthday and if you're over 21 or not.

IAM header hyperlink: This changes the color of the hyperlink for your username, displayed directly above your birthday as well as the "edit my page" link directly across from your username.

IAM main background: This changes the background for the body of your IAM page. This includes the background of your main description, diary entries, modtrackers, your following list and the list of forums on your page.

IAM main heading: This changes the color of the text for the words Diary, Following and Forums. This also changes the font.

IAM main title: This changes the color of the text titles for diary entries, usernames listed under "Following" and forum titles.

IAM main text: This changes the color of the text in your diary entries and your forum descriptions as well as the color of the text in the forums themselves.

IAM main hyperlink: This changes the color of links on your page and your forums.

Page footer background: This is the background of the bottom of the page beneath where your diary entries end.

Page footer title :

Page footer text : This changes the color of the text in the footer which is at the bottom of your page beneath your diary entries.

Page footer hyperlink: This changes the color of the hyperlinks in the footer which is at the bottom of your page beneath your diary entries.

This is where you manage your diary entries on IAM. Add new diary entries as well as edit your older entries.

This is where you manage your forums. You can add or delete forums from your page.

This is where you add petitions to your page as well as managing current petitions on your page.

This is where you add polls to your page as well as manage current polls that have already been added.

This is where you add an event to IAM that you are hosting. Click the "Add Event" page to get started.

This is where you select an experience submitted to BME to display on your page. Click the "link to a BME experience" in order to get started.

These are the people that you're following. This is similiar to the function on the old IAM.Alive that told you when a person that you added to your IAM.Alive updated their page. This helps you to keep track of pages that you want to view.

This is the list of people who want to be notified when you update your page. This means they are interested in what you're doing, not that they are just some creepy stalker so take it as a compliment. If you feel that someone is abusing this function, please report it.

These are the recent visitors to your page.

Enter the username of the user that you want to block. Enter a comma between the users if you are adding multiple users.

Example: user1, user2, user3

This is the title that will be displayed for your journal entry.

Tags help to determine the subject of your post. Try to limit the number of tags that you use so that it will show up when other users are searching for specific posts about relevant topics. Use the same tags for similar journal entries. Tags should be separated by a comma.

This text is displayed to other members who are browsing when you are online and active on the site. This will be useful once the chat features are implemented.

This text is displayed to users once you have logged off the site. This will be useful once the chat features are implemented.

This text is displayed to other members when you're on the site but you're not currently active. You are logged in but you may be away from your computer or looking at something else. It's kind of like an "away" message. This will be useful once the chat features are implemented.

Enter the amount of time when you want IAM to consider you "inactive" and to display the inactive message to users. This should be a range in minutes.

Example: 5 - 10 minutes.

The text entered into this WYSIWYG editor is what will be displayed in your journal entries. You no longer need to be fluent in HTML in order to format your posts. The WYSIWYG editor is fairly standard and includes everything you need in order to format your posts.

This also helps so that we don't have the same issues with users using poorly formatted HTML and breaking their IAM pages.

Clicking the icon that looks like a tree allows you to add images to your page.

Add Photos:

Add Videos:

Add Stories:

Adding a New Album: This creates a new album that is viewable on your IAM page.

Title: This is the title or name of the album. This is a required field.
Description: This is the description of your album.
Display in Profile: Check this box if you want this album to be viewable to members who are visiting your IAM page.
Category: Selecting BME will create your album under the "ModTracker" heading. Selecting IAM will create the album under the "Profile Heading".

NOTE: New albums are currently displaying under the Forum Albums heading. We are working on fixing this issue but because it was not a serious bug, it will be addressed post launch. If we can't automatically move the albums to the correct heading, we will let you know.

Managing your albums:

Edit: Once you have created your album, you can add media to it. You can also click the EDIT button next to it in order to change the title, description, if it displays in your profile and if it is displayed under "Modtracker" or "Profile Albums" by changing between IAM or BME as the category.

Delete: Select Delete in order to delete the album. Please be careful and make sure that all media has been moved out of the album before deleting it.

Adding Media: Click "add new" and then whichever type of media you want to upload. That will take you to the appropriate upload page where you will be able to browse your computer and select the media that you would like to upload. Once you've uploaded the new media, you will need to select the album that you would like the media to be stored in. We will update this shortly to have it automatically go into the album that you've selected to add new media to.

Help pages for adding photos, videos and stories can be found on those specific pages.

You can add to your list of favorites by browsing the BME galleries.  There, beside any photo or video you will find a link to "add to favorites".  Any media you have added to your list of favorites will then be available for quick viewing here.