Our information’s security can be based on two main points. The first one is to protect our personal data and our privacy. We are going to give you some tips about them that may help you keep your information safely:
• Use access passwords for all your devices so you will make it more difficult for strangers to access to your information related to you or to the products you sell.
• These passwords should be complicated, that is, try to avoid using your birthday or the name of your pet as password and try to mix capital letters and lower case, some numbers and any of the ‘strange’ characters like $ or #.
• If you need some kind of raw material for your activity, when you use e-commerce, for example, always access to safe web sites (https) and never make a payment through other pages.
• Also avoid making payments in hotels, bars or restaurants where the Wi-Fi may not be completely trustworthy. Only do it when you know in advance that it is completely safe.
• Please never give any personal information that you are asked for in an email or through a phone call. If you suspect that the call could be authentic, call to the company yourself and ask them if they are doing any kind of telephone campaign asking for this information to users.
• Another option is to encrypt the information we send through email. There has been lately much advance in this sense and there are several programmes that allow us by means of mathematical algorithms to encrypt and decrypt messages to avoid your information being accessed by strangers.
• It is also important to back up your information in your personal devices. This way you will avoid losing your contacts list, high-quality photos of our own products or any relevant information about you or your business.
• We also recommend you save your files in the cloud. The advantage here is that you are not saving the information in your mobile phone or in your computer. In the case your device’s information was in the risk of being stolen, you would have your data externally saved and would have easy and quick access to it.
• Do not store your security passwords in your devices. If someone accessed to your data through your computer, it would be the same as giving them your house keys.
• In the social networks, personalize the information you share with the rest of users. Do not make certain information public like where you live, your birthdate or where you work. It is as well important to watch your online reputation.
• Verify your privacy settings frequently as they usually change in social networks and you will need to adjust them to new clauses.
• Do not accept unknown people in your social networks. It may sound good to say you have many friends, but you do not really know them and least their intentions. If you want to have many ‘friends’ you can create different groups of friends to distinguish your real friends, with whom you will share your experiences, from the other ‘friends’. Other solution would be to have different profiles and give them different purposes to avoid problems.