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Internet Usage/Safety Guide

Protecting you, us and the future of the Internet!

Our unofficial ‘Code of Internet Usage’!

Please see below the ServiceRaider.co.uk code of internet usage as a general guide to safety when using the internet and below that the general terms of usage of this website. Please read everything careful and ensure that you understand all the information before proceeding. Your usage of this website is an active agreement to these terms.

Common Sense Advice

You are strongly advised to ensure that you are running good quality anti-virus software on your PC while you are surfing the internet as there are unscrupulous programs that can find their way past supposed-defences very easily if the software that you are running is not good enough for the job it faces. ID theft is still very much rife and wide-spread and a little education in using effective anti-virus software can go a long way to stopping the ID thieves getting hold of your personal information and/or your money.

I personally recommend that you either go straight for the McAfee Total Protection security suite at www.mcafee.com for around £60 per year or if funds are tight please go to www.avg.com and download their excellent package for FREE. Obviously the total protection option is the most beneficial as the package offers every form of protection you will ever need for total peace of mind although the FREE option will suffice and does offer good protection.

Never give out any of your personal information, even your age, to someone you don’t know. This means your home or mobile telephone number, your home address, your school name and address, where you work, any club locations and pre-arranged times of meetings, your GP’s name and address, absolutely never your bank details and/or any account numbers, pin numbers and passwords. Don’t ever let anyone know who you bank with at any time, how much you earn and/or any other income that you receive.

Form Filling

When completing any forms of any kind, even log-in field forms at bank or club membership websites, always remember to use the left-mouse button only to click the submit or login or enter button. Never use the ENTER key on your keyboard. This is because a small program called a ‘key logger’ is used by identity thieves and cyber crooks to access your accounts on various website’s that you have private password and pin protected access to using your information.

The small program is placed onto your machine using ‘access ports’ on your computer via the internet so please make sure that your anti-virus software is on and working properly at all times and it’s always wise to perform a virus scan 2 to 3 times per week, if not everyday.

Social Network Websites, Message Boards, Messenger Networks, Forums etc.

Parents please educate your children!

As you know social networking website are more popular than ever so please manage them closely and advise them to chat only with friends they have actually physically met and no-one else. Just their school friends and friends they know from clubs they belong to etc. Even if they are asked to chat by someone who ‘apparently’ is known by friends of your children, please advise them that the internet can be a dangerous place and only to trust you and their friends, non-one else and that it’s OK to say NO!.

Remember that hackers come in every unsavoury shape and size and can be a very dangerous threat to your children so please protect them by following these simply guidance rules and use your common sense. Your children will thank you for it by hopefully growing up well balance and well educated about the dangers of the internet and how best to use it so that it’s an exciting and useful tool to use and nothing else.

Emails from banks etc.

Rules of emailing. Banks and financial institutions will never ask you to confirm any of your account details or your internet banking password and/or pin numbers at any time. If you receive an email that ‘looks’ like it has come from your bank and it asks anything like wanting you to click a button or a link within the email – no matter how convincing it looks – please do not ever click the link or button, just close the email and delete it. Make sure you ‘purge’ all of your deleted emails as well. Purging is a basically a final delete from within the deleted emails box in your email account. Some email providers have them, others do not.

Emails from strangers

If you do not know the person sending you an email then it could be fake and a vehicle for placing a virus onto your computer so please be careful as this happens every day and to virtually everyone at some time during their internet usage life-time. As advised above if you do not know who the email has come from then please do not click on any links or buttons within the email as that click could launch a virus download and you wouldn’t see the download happening.

It all happens behind the scenes and you only find out when your computer crashes, or doesn’t work as you expect it too, is very slow or worst case your identity gets stolen and/not your computer’s hard-drive is destroyed. This has happened to individuals and business alike all across the UK so please be very careful and again use your common sense.

It is far better and safer to ignore and say NO than to feel obliged and then regret giving it a chance because you thought it would be ok. The people who send these emails do not care for your sympathetic ideals, they just want to attack you and/or steal your money because they can.

Pop-ups, pop-unders, slide-in’s and advertising in general

When accessing a website outside of this website you may be presented with an advertisement that pop’s up or under your browser window. Make sure that you can see and understand exactly what the advertisement is about and never click upon any of these ads if they warn you that your pc ‘may be infected with a virus’ or anything like that. These can be scare mongering tactics to get you to click upon the ad and you may be taken to a website that has been built for malicious intent by some unsavoury people.

You only trust advertisements that are placed upon a website that you trust and that is fully checkable as a part of a proper company, or club you belong to or people you know. The advertisements should only be built into the structure of the website itself i.e. given proper advertisement space.

General Terms of Website Usage

The following general terms are applicable to any visitor to this website at any time. By using this website to access products and services supplied by a third party you are in agreement with these terms, bound by them and hold www.serviceraider.co.uk and its associates not responsible for any wrong doing or any event that is not according to your expectations and has a liability attached that is held by a third party.

The design, layout and textual and graphical content of this website are the intellectual property of www.serviceraider.co.uk and its owner. No representation of this website and/or any of its contents is permitted at any time without the express permission, in writing, of the owner and operator of www.serviceraider.co.uk.

ServiceRaider.co.uk takes every reasonable precaution to ensure that the quality of content viewable upon websites that are linked via this website is to a high and respectable standard and suitable for all age groups above the age of 5 years (with parental supervision) at all times. If any visitor finds that this standard is not met at any time then he or she is strongly advised to notify us immediately using the contact form on the contact page. Every effort will be made to address the query and rectify any terms of usage and hyperlink terms of purchase clause breaches that may be found to have occurred.

All visitors and users of this website understand and agree to assume a common-sense attitude and be absolutely responsible for their own viewing decisions and those decisions made by those you are legally dependable and responsible for. You are absolutely responsible for your decision to view websites that may require a minimum age in order to view. You assume your own responsibility and enter into a separate liability relationship (with a third party other than this website) when purchasing products and services from a third party that has been accessed via this website.

ServiceRaider.co.uk is not responsible for the service delivery and/or product quality of any of the websites that are featured within this website. Please contact them directly for any issues or problem you experienced at their website.

The function of www.serviceraider.co.uk is a collection point for an indefinite number of commercial and non-commercial websites that are of general and specific interest to a number of sections of the general public of the United Kingdom and/or interested parties outside of this geographical region.

ServiceRaider.co.uk provides a well presented, easy to follow and convenient central website on the internet where members of the general public can find a particular product or service, supplied by a number of website’s, accessible directly from this website.