Help » the basics

what is 11870.com?

11870.com is a website where you can keep track of your favorite places and services by saving them to your profile, kind of like a virtual Rolodex. It also lets you share your experience with friends, discover new places and services and find people you have things in common with.

what’s 11870.com for?

Here are some of the things you can use 11870.com for:

11870.com allows you to that and so much more, it’s what you want to make of it. Be original!

creating an account

Starting to use 11870.com is as easy as signing up. To do this, just click on “create your account” (upper right-hand corner) and then on “I am an individual user“.

The sign-up form is simple and takes about a minute to fill out. You’ll have to provide the following:

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if you’re a business…

Signing a company up to 11870.com is completely free and will allow you total control over your business’ profile. You’ll be able to modify the description, the pictures, the videos, the tags… Read more about this in the section for businesses.

If you have a business or a service that you want to register on 11870.com, all you have to do is click on “create your account” and then on “I am a business“.

start saving services

The simplest way to start out saving places and services, adding contacts or following cities (or any other geographical area), is by clicking on the star next to the name of whatever you want to save or follow.

The concept’s simple: the gray star means you haven’t saved it to your page, the yellow star means you have! :-)

searches on 11870.com

Whenever you search for a term you get three types of results:

  • geographic areas or locations that coincide with your search
  • 11870.com users with a similar name to your term
  • places and services related to your search

Just click on the result to see its page!

If you can’t find a service you’re looking for, you might like to add it.

your homepage here

If you’ve just signed up, the first thing you’ll see on your 11870.com homepage are tips on how to start saving places, services and meeting people.

Once you’ve started getting active on the site, your homepage will be the first thing you see after logging in. On it you’ll be able to get a quick and general idea of what your profile’s like and what’s been going on around here since you last logged in:

  • What your friends have been up to (read more about having contacts here)
  • Your stats
  • 11870.com users that have been to your page
  • Your categories
  • Your services in different cities
  • Your tags
  • The areas you’re following (read more about following an area)

This help section you’re reading will explain all these things, and what having this information on hand is useful for.

featured languages

At 11870.com we want to be read everywhere, so we’re translating the site into different languages. Right now we’re available in Spanish, English and Catalan. You can switch between languages at the bottom of the page. Do keep in mind that you’ll see “what’s happening” activity only for that particular language and that when you switch to a language, your notifications and any other mail we send you will be in that language.

deleting your account

To delete your account you have to notify us by e-mail. There isn’t an option for this action in your page. Click on “contact” at the bottom of the page and send us a message with your request. We’d be glad to hear what you have to say about 11870.com and your reasons for deleting the account. Your opinions help us improve.

legal statement and privacy terms

If you’re wondering what you can comment on and what you can’t, what type of pictures and videos you can upload and what you can’t, if you’d like to know what we do with your information (though you can rest assured that we guard it conscientiously)… just have a look at the legal statement and privacy terms page: all this is explained in detail!