Cyber Shopping

Safe Site:


1. What online shopping site are you researching? Put the url here and the site name.
Kenmore Collectables - http://www.kenmorecollectibles.com/cards_coins_and_sports_collectibles_for_sale.html

2. Does this site use cookies to identify you as a return shopper? How do you know?
Yes. They state the reason for using them in the privacy statement


3. Is the site secure? Identify the security measures that this site uses to keep your credit card and personal identity safe.
They use encryption to keep your credit card safe

4. Does this site offer person to person payments? 
Yes, it uses pay pal as a payment method


5. How can I verify that this site has not compromised individual's credit card or personal information?
When examining the payment process, I checked that the url changed to a https. The website has also has been verified and uses an encryption to protect your information.


6. Identify 3 methods I can use to keep my credit card and personal data safe from hacking while shopping online(identify at least 1 from reading in the text) 
What you should first look for is that it has a privacy policy. After that you should check that it is secure payment, and that it has also been verified by a third party.


http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/online-shopping.aspx


Unsafe Site:



1. What online shopping site are you researching? Put the url here and the site name.
 Fox Jewelery -http://foxjewelry.com/showCart.asp

2. Does this site use cookies to identify you as a return shopper? How do you know?
It does not have a written policy so it is hard to tell.


3. Is the site secure? Identify the security measures that this site uses to keep your credit card and personal identity safe.
It has not been verified


4. Does this site offer person to person payments? 
.No, it does not offer secure payment methods


5. How can I verify that this site has not compromised individual's credit card or personal information?
You can't really since it does not give information on their policies