With online shopping and other activities online, there are always risks and threats due to an increase in online fraud to your privacy and data. It is essential that you are aware of the tools and information available to help you protect your privacy. There are many websites ranging from simple advice for beginners to specific legal privacy rights. These will be included in our list of links.

Bottom Dollar
http://www.bottomdollar.com
This website is basically a pre-compiled search for low prices on popular items at popular locations. In a search it will bring up every item which you searched for and arranges them by price range. Once clicked you get a list of all websites and their price of the product. This could be a useful tool for working out a good competetive price for items you may wish to sell on eBay.

DealAlert Online Shopping Assistant
http://www.pocketdeal.com/dealalert.aspx
This great tool allows you to know when a new coupon or deal is posted online in the last 7 days and search through them. It can also alert you when a deal has been found which matches your set keywords.

eBay Toolbar
http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_toolbar/index.html
This is the ideal tool for eBayaholics! Not only can you keep an eye on any items you are bidding on, but you can also be assured that your account is secure by the 'Account Guard'. The only downside is that it comes bundled with a Yahoo! toolbar, but this can be de-selected in the setup.

Online shopping advice by Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=11081621
This is a very informative guide for people intending on shopping on the Amazon website. However, some of the information can be applied to any shopping website.

Consumer Direct
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/before_you_buy/online-shopping/tips
This is the official consumer website for the United Kingdom. It holds a wealth of information about shopping online but also about shopping in general. They advise against scams, fraud and also your data security.

Delia Online's Tips to Online Shopping
http://www.deliaonline.com/articles/food/delia-onlines-tips-to-online-sh...
One for a few laughs. I had to add this because even Delia Smith is on the ball when it comes to online shopping. She explains her first online shopping experience and also has some good safety points for online shopping. If she can do it, anyone can!

Easy Webstore
http://www.easywebstore.co.uk/safe-online-shopping
This website requires very little reading at all as it gets the main safety points across in simple bullet points. Great for those of you who dislike reading from a computer screen.

Privacy Rights
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs23-shopping.htm
For a more official and lengthier read, this website covers everything you need to know about your rights when shopping on the internet or our in the real world. This is ideal for those who have encountered problems whilst shopping online and need to learn what they can do about it to prevent it from happening again. It is a joint publication of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
and the Identity Theft Resource Center.

Ciao - Consumer reviews and price comparison
http://www.ciao.co.uk/
This website is the icing on the cake if ever you need to research a product. It holds hundreds of customer reviews about specific products, locations and anything else you can possibly think of. This is good for seeing if the goods are worth you spending money on them. Be sure you pick items with over around 10 reviews otherwise the opinions will be biased.