5 Tips for Ensuring Your Customers' Privacy

Hints for safeguarding the privacy of your online customers

Written By SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business"

1. Understand that protecting customers' privacy is essential to maintaining and increasing sales and profits online.

2. Develop a privacy policy, post it on your web site, and live by your policy. For guidelines, visit three Web sites: http://www.privacyalliance.org/, http://www.respectprivacy.com/ and http://www.privacyrights.org/.

3. Put top-notch security systems in place to make sure that customer data is not lost, misused, altered or stolen.

4. Require that third parties with whom you deal provide similar data security.

5. Don't provide personal information collected from customers to third parties unless you have explicit permission from the customers to do so.

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