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Today’s living is becoming more and more convenient with the advent of the internet allowing for activities from online banking to shopping saving time and energy. However, the internet experience is not without risk. We’ve put together a list of suggestions to help in ensuring that you’re internet experiences are safe, secure and satisfying.
Here are a few suggestions:
- Be sure to review a web-site’s privacy policy revealing what they intend to use your information for and how they will protect it before providing your personal information.
- Look for seals or trustmarks from trusted third party organizations indicating utilization of encryption techniques for personal data.
- Give payment information to only businesses you recognize with good reputations.
- Keep track of your online transactions not only to recognize fraud but to correct any mistakes in record keeping. Review your credit card monthly statements to help recognize any discrepancies or abuse.
- Always be suspicious of sites that ask for more information that what makes sense for what you want to do.
- Be careful opening any email attachments or downloading files when from any unfamiliar individual or web-site since they can transmit a computer virus.
- Use passwords that incorporate numbers, letters in both upper and lower case if available. Be sure to use different passwords for different websites.
- When finished with a site, don’t just close your browser but log off first.
- Be sure that your personal computer is current on anti-virus software.
- Contact us immediately if you inadvertently go to a site that is intentionally created to impersonate eMaxFun and perpetrate fraud.
These and much more recommendations can be found on the internet including:
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