How to register
1. To contribute to the South Ayrshire Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform you need to register with mygovscot myaccount. Each registration is for a single user only. Every potential new user must read the Terms and Conditions of use before registering. The T & Cs are located at the bottom of the home page. If you already have a mygovscot myaccount then go directly to step 8 below.
2. To register, a user clicks on the 
button located in the top right corner of the home page and the Register page will open.
3. User clicks on the “Register with” button 
on the Register page.
4. User is directed to the mygovscot myaccount page to create an account with myaccount. Click “Register”.
5. If you do not already have an account with myaccount you’ll be directed to the mygovscot “Register for Account” page where you’ll need to create a myaccount account by filling in your personal details, name, email address, date of birth, gender and postal address. The postal address gets assigned a local authority code that links to a council area.
6. After details are entered an email is sent from myaccount to the new user with a verification link.
7. Once the user’s myaccount account is created the user can sign into the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform.
8. If you already have an account with myaccount go to the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform and click on at the top right corner of the homepage and the Sign in page will appear. 
9. User clicks on the "Sign in with" button 
on the Sign in page.
10. Enter your username and password into myaccount and click sign in. If you have used the South Ayrshire Communiy Conversations platform before you are returned to the homepage of the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform and are logged in. If this is your first time using the platform an account is created.
11. On the myaccount site, you’ll be asked if you consent to your data being used by the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform and there are checkboxes for Core and Optional data that will be sent to the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform. If you’re happy with the Core data and any optional data to be sent to the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform from myaccount then select “Yes take me there” and you should go into the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform. If not happy for the exchange of data then select “No, log me out” and you won’t be able to sign in to the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform. Note if you want to withdraw your consent later, you can log into myaccount and click on the consent tab to withdraw your consent.
12. Every proposal or comment a user makes will have their username visibly tagged to their input. Therefore, it is highly recommended during you first log into the Your Area, Your Voice, Your Choice platform that you then go into My account at the top right of the homepage on the platform
and update your username to something that is unidentifiable to other users so they cannot identify you or attribute to you any comments, proposals etc. that you may enter into the platform.
Make sure you save any updates using the 
button at the bottom of the page. Note updating your username in this part of the platform will not change your log in username to the platform as you sign in using your mygovscot myaccount username which you haven't changed. This update will only change the username presented with comments, proposals etc. that you make within the platform.
13. It’s important you read the user guidelines which outline what you can and can’t do when using the platform and reasons we will block your account.
Alternativley you can login using Facebook or Google
