Top simple tips to protect your privacy

Top tips to protect your privacy

As we know, internet becomes a rich field for scammers and spammers, which therefore your data and information are in risk of being theft by one of these crooks. In order to decrease the potential of being an easy target person, you are recommended to apply the follow tips:

Ø  Always adjust your privacy setting while using social network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter...etc. You can do that by opening your account and look for setting or privacy settings and adjust these settings in a protective way

Ø  Change your password frequently, by this tool you can make sure that your password cannot be used by others easily, as you will increase the percentage of security by doing that

Ø  Opt-out of ad tracking, this tip related to what it calls cookies which use by some network sites which install cookies to your computer in order to monitor your online activities which will lead them to know what kind of activities you usually do or interested in. In order to avoid such risk you can adjust your web browser setting by disable cookies from third party websites (block cookies)

Ø  Do not use any web browser to check your bank or any financial details, do not use unsecure browsers (other computers or public wifi connections) while surfing your personal sites especially online banking or any other financial sites. Always use your own secure connection and computer to do so, as you do not know if that browser or connection is secure enough to use it for such important data or not

Ø  Always delete your browsing history, especially when you use public connection or computer which will help you to secure your privacy. You can do so by using browser tools which contains (internet options) or by going to safety icon, which allow you to delete your browsing history

Ø   Do not use your personal information as a term of searching using search engines, especially your name, address, credit card numbers, or any similar data

There are other tips and tools you can use to protect your privacy but it is good and recommended to start with these

How to Investigate Online?

How to investigate about online business or offers, and where?

One of the important basics that I recommended, usually, to my friends or to any person (consumers) use the internet to buy or to sell, is to investigate before starting his/ her transaction. This tool is truly deemed the guarantee to consumers while purchasing through the internet. However, most of online consumers do not know how to investigate or where, so I’m writing this post to highlight the most secure and common sites that you can use in doing so

Ø  How to investigate?

In this part, you should know that there is no need to rush your online activities, especially when you deal with unknown person to you. Therefore, you should start collecting that party data (name, address, e-mail...etc), in order to be able to evaluate his/ her status which you should base on to decide dealing with him/ her or not

The mechanism to investigate relies on the nature of your activity and its place. As if you are dealing with a person who owns a site then you should investigate that person details in addition to his site. While, if you are dealing with a person who sell through trusty sites (such as Amazon or eBay) then you should investigate the status of that person by checking the evaluation of his transaction that the trusty sites, usually, provide

Ø  Where to investigate?

There are many tools that you can apply to investigate about a person or a site, which are mostly free through the internet. The first tool that you can use is by searching via www.allwhois.com, this site will give all the data you need about the domain name that you are dealing with, in which you can compare between the provided data that this site gave to you with the data that the seller or the site provided to you

The second tool that you can use is by searching via the governmental sites that provide to consumers some reports about fraud sites or offers in addition to valuable advices that you can adopt in your online activities. Although, such sites give you the right to place a claim in case of fraud or scam; see for examples:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/consumer.shtm (US)

http://www.oft.gov.uk/consumer-advice/ (UK)

The final tool that you can use if you are buying via trusty sites is by searching through the provided history of the seller (previous activities or transactions), which the trusty sites obliged to provide to their users; see for example:

eBay.com

For more details please leave your comment or question and I’ll do my best to replay as soon as possible

by, Mohammad Al-Thunibat
resource: http://e-commercelawyer.blogspot.com/