<h3>What Does This Do?</h3>
  <p>This module allows management and administration of front end users <i>(users who have no admin accesses)</i>.  It allows creation of user groups, and user accounts and allows users to login and logout.</p>
  <h4>Features:</h4>
  <ul>
    <li>Users can be members of multiple groups.</li>
    <li>User account expiration.  You can create temporary users</li>
    <li>Group Properties.  You can ask for different information from members of different groups.</li>
    <li>Lots of field types.</li>
    <li>Provides a content type to make protecting content simple, if not trivial.</li>
    <li>Capable of handling thousands of users</li>
    <li>Extensive flexibility for handling redirection after login, and sends events to extend the workflow process.</li>
    <li>Forgotten password, and forgot username functionality... allows users to set a new password, and/or to recover their username if they completely forgot login details.</li>
    <li>Extendable to different authentication types (LDAP, Facebook, etc).</li>
    <li>Provides extensive import and export capabilities.</li>
    <li>Has an extensive API for adding functionality into various other CMSMS addon modules.</li>
    <li>The ability to encrypt sensitive user data.</li>
    <li>Strong encryption and security.</li>
    <li>Extensive administrative capabilities.</li>
    <li>Additional <b>LISE</b> custom fields if you have it installed.</li>
  </ul>


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<h3>Privacy Warning:</h3>
<p>Administrators are responsible for managing the safety and security of any personal information collected.</p>

<p>This module does log the IP address of users. This is not compatible with Do-Not-Track policies, and may break some laws.  <strong>Use At Your Own Risk.</strong></p>
<p>Additionally, the administrator has the ability to configure the module so that cookies are used.  However no personal information is stored in the cookies (if enabled).  Only a system assigned unique user identifier, and a session identifier.</p>

<p>This module provides some assistance in managing user privacy.  There is functionality to anonymize a users account, and functionality that will automatically clear old data from user history logs.</p>

<p>This module does NOT provide the ability for users to remove their accounts.  This is because other functionality (such as E-commerce) may require the user information for referential integrity.  However, there is an admin option to allow anonymizing a user.</p>
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<h3>Encrypted Data:</h3>
<p>The Encrypted field functionality is intended to store (in a secure way) personal and private data that even the site administrator should not have access to.  i.e: items such as Credit Card information.  The only person that should be able to view and edit this data is the user himself.   This data should not be exported to plain text either.  The data could however be read and used by other modules.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong>  There may be smaa need for an additional module to display the unencrypted form of encrypted user information, however the MAMS module does not need it.</p>

<h3>Tips</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Dynamic Navigations:
    <p>In most circumstances you cannot allow browser caching on any page that has a dynamic navigation... the two should not be mixed.</p>
  </li>
  <li>Redirect Preferences and &lbrace;$username}:
    <p>If using the <code>&lbrace;$username}</code> smarty variable in any of the redirect preferences in the MAMS module's &quot;builtin authentication&quot; tab be sure to turn OFF the &quot;Email is Username&quot; preference.</p>
  </li>
</ul>

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  <p><strong>Note:</strong> if you have <b>Front End Users (FEU)</b> installed you'll see a new tab here regarding the migration steps from <b>FEU</b> to <b>MAMS</b> should you require it.</p>
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