Safety Tips for online shopping

                                               Safety Tips for online shopping 

Onlineshopping has become very common these days and today most people prefer shopping through the internet rather than visiting physical stores and online shopping offers many benefits over conventional shopping. When shopping online, safety should the primary concern of the shoppers as many a time; your personal details including financial details are shared over the internet.

However, shopping online these days are not as risky as it was few years back as millions of online transactions take place every day all across the world. Nevertheless, there are some tips that you need to keep in mind to be safe and have an enjoyable online shopping experience and they are:

·         Make sure that you are doing business from a reputable website and this is the foremost safety tip that you need to keep in mind. All fancy looking websites are not safe. Invest some time to investigate about the company you are planning to buy from and gather as much information as you can.

·         If it is an offline company, then you can double click the site’s URL on your toolbar. Hackers create identical looking dummy sites to fool online shoppers and the website address is the only way to recognize these sites.

·         Another time when you need to check the toolbar is at the time of entering your financial details. The address would start with https and not http. Some sites also display security icons in the form of a closed lock and these are the sites you can trust.

If the site you are buying does not has a good offline reputation, then check the telephone address and telephone number and there should also be a privacy notice page. You can also run a check in the internet to know what other people have to say about the website.