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We need access to your Trello account in order to import your boards into Kerika. We will use this access only for importing your boards.
The access will last only 1 hour and we will not be able to make any changes to any of your Trello boards.
If this is OK, please continue to Trello's authorization screen.
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Three secure options for storing your Kerika files
Pick the one that makes your IT folks happy.
1. Use your own Google Drive to store your files
This is definitely the most popular option for Kerika users, since so many people already use Google's services. Any Google ID will work, even a regular Gmail address. To use this, click on the KERIKA+GOOGLE button on the Sign Up page.
With this option, Kerika will store all your files in your own Google Drive where they will always be under your control. This includes every file attached to every board owned by your account.
There are lots of advantages to using Google Drive:
- You can edit your files in the browser itself, using Google Docs.
- Google Drive has great security and reliability.
- If your organization is using Google Apps, your IT folks can make sure they have full control over what data are shared outside the company.
How Kerika uses Google Drive
Kerika needs permission to access your Google Drive, and the screen that Google will show you looks like this:
Although this screen – which is Google's way of asking, not ours – suggests that Kerika will roam freely through your Google Drive, the reality is quite different:
- Kerika creates only a top-level folder in your Google Drive called kerika.com. Inside this folder are a set of nested subfolders that correspond to each of the boards you are working on.
- Kerika doesn't browse or modify any other folders.
- And, this does not in any way provide a backdoor for any Kerika staff to view your Google Docs.
If you would like more information on this, check out this page on Kerika's integration with Google.
2. Use your Box Enterprise account to store your files
Kerika also works seamlessly with Box Enterprise (and even a free personal Box account). To use Kerika with Box, click on the KERIKA+BOX button on the Sign Up page.
With this option, Kerika will store all your files in your organization's Box Enterprise Account where they will always be under the control of your company's IT staff. This includes every file attached to every board owned by your account.
As with Google Drive, there are some real advantages to using Kerika with Box:
- Kerika works really well with Box Notes: you can even create a new Box Note from inside Kerika and have that attached to the right card or board.
- Box has very good security and privacy protections, so it's a popular cloud service for privacy-sensitive industries like the legal and medical professions.
- Any Box access control policies implemented by your IT folks will work just fine with Kerika+Box: issues such as file retention, versioning, and sharing outside the organization are all taken care of.
How Kerika works with Box
Kerika needs permission to access your Enterprise Box Account, and the screen that Box will show you looks like this:
Although this screen – which is Box's way of asking, not ours – suggests that Kerika will roam freely through your Box Account, the reality is quite different:
- Kerika creates separate folders in your Box Account that correspond to each of the boards you are working on: these are the only folders that Kerika ever accesses.
- And, as with Kerika+Google, this permission setting does not in any way provide a backdoor for any Kerika staff to view your Box files: that's simply impossible the way Kerika and Box work.
If you would like more information on this, check out this page on Kerika's integration with Box.
3. Let Kerika take care of everything
This is probably the easiest way you can try out Kerika: just sign up using any email address, and let Kerika handle all your project files.
You can sign up with any personal or corporate email: it doesn't matter – Kerika will send you a confirmation email at that address that contains a personalized link for you to click on. Clicking on the link will help us confirm that you are using an email address that belongs to, and will complete the sign up process.
When you sign up using an email address, Kerika actually uses a special Google Drive account to store your project files for you.
Kerika's strict access controls ensure that each user account is restricted to a particular set of folders within this Google Drive.
We use Google Drive for our storage because Google has excellent security and reliability, better than anything we could build ourselves. Kerika handles all the interactions with Google on the back-end; you don't have to do anything to manage your files.
If you would like more information on this, check out this page on how direct sign up works.