Online Shopping Safety OR Buy with Confidence

Online safety is paramount. Everybody is cautious about their data stolen and/or not arriving orders.

What are reasonable steps to mitigate risks? If you can find answers to the questions below, then it is easier to make an informed decision.

1) On a technical level first and foremost - the site must be safe, meaning that it should have SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption installed. This means that your data transfers are more secure than on an unecrypted site as encryption makes it difficult for unauthorised people to view information travelling between computers over the Internet. It is therefore unlikely that anyone read this page as it travelled across the network.

How to find it out? Look at your browser's address bar. There should be a lock icon displayed near the url. Also, the web-site should start with https://, which is an industry standard nowadays.

Additionally, this web-site is a Shopify store. Shopify is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headqurtered in Ottawa, Canada. It's a comprehensive platform for online stores including payments and shipping. As of now, according to Wikipedia, Shopify hosts 4.6 mln stores and it's total revenue reached $7.1bn and the third largest publicly traded Canadian company.

As of now, Shopify has reported that over a trillion orders across all shops have been processed. That is a pretty impressive achievement by any standards. 

2) When it comes to payment page - there should be only secure reputable payment providers present. That means that the seller will not have your payment details.

All payments and card details on this web-site are securely managed by ShopifyPayments, the world’s leading payment gateway, so your information is always protected.

3) Is there any information about the seller such as about us page, social media presence, do they sell on other platforms? Are there any feedbacks?

3) Where are they based?

4) Is it a friendly business? How easy it was to find most basic data on shipping, returns and contact information? How long does it take for them to reply to your query?