Online Shopping Safety Tips

There are some online shopping safety tips which will be very useful while you shopping online. Here the following tips:


 1. You should make sure, download the most recent version of your browser to take advantage of advances in encryption capabilities to protect your personal information as it's transmitted over the Internet.

   2. Watch for the padlock icon on the status bar at the bottom of your browser window, which indicates that the site is secure.

   3. Look for an s added to the usual http at the beginning of the Web site's URL when you get ready to submit your purchase information. The https indicates a secure server.

   4. Before submitting personal information to a site, read their privacy policy to find out how the information may be used and whether it will be sold or shared with other businesses. If you don't like what you read,shop somewhere else.

   5. Don't provide personal information such as address, telephone number, Social Security number, bank account number, or e-mail address unless you know who you're providing the information to, why it's being requested, and how it will be used.

   6. Use a credit card, not a debit card, for Internet purchases. In case of Debit cards don't have the same protection as credit cards when it comes to limiting your liability for fraud.

   7. Carefully review your credit card and bank statement each month for unauthorized charges and notify your credit card company or bank immediately if you notice any charges you didn't authorize.

   8. Always keep clean your computer with free online software that detects spyware (such as Spyware Doctor) and install a firewall, like the free version of Zone Alarm (www.zonelabs.com) or Norton Internet Security to ensure that sites you shop at don't install spyware on your computer.

   9. Never try to shop online in Internet Cafe or somewhere you don't know because there are lots of software hackers are using which will easily encrypted your credit card password and username.