I must be blind or something...
 

Where is the area where you can change your own account settings and all of that?

Im trying to see if I can have an email alert whenever I recieve a PM instead of having to login everytime over hear just to check.

Click the "profile" button.

It is at the top of this page, in the grey bar under the banner ad.

Once there, click "edit" on the top of the page, just under the xB on the right side of the ScionLife banner.