Your safety is important to us.
We will always do everything possible to ensure our user's safety and anonymity. While on our website, you will never be asked to share any personal information like your age, name or where you live. However, we cannot entirely eliminate risk.
Some aspects of computer safety are specific to your computer and your individual circumstances. If you feel that you need to conceal your online activity on our website, consider learning how to delete records of your Internet activity by reading through the following information.
Please DO NOT register for our website using your real name (or anything resembling a real name) - your privacy is important to us and all registrations using a real name will not be approved. Please register with an anonymous display name.
Please do not share private or identifying information about yourself or others on blog posts, public or private forums, or anywhere else on the website.
In order to sign up for support groups, you will be asked to provide your name and email address in the contact form. This information is only seen by our admin and group facilitators.
What can I do to make it safer?
When leaving our website, to ensure your anonymity to those around you, it is important that you clear your computers ‘cache’ and internet history and erase the ‘cookies’ on your mobile phone or computer. These steps prevent anyone from going into your computer or device and checking your internet activity.
What is a ‘cache’?
The cache is an area of the hard disc where web pages are stored when a page is downloaded from the Internet. It allows for recently viewed pages to be viewed more rapidly on or offline.
What is internet history?
Your web history is a list of the different URLs, or websites, you have visited on a specific browser.
To see your history on a Mac, type Apple + H.
To see your history on a PC, type Control + H.
What are ‘cookies’?
Cookies are storage files that collect personal information that you have provided to particular vendors on the Internet (e.g., your name, address, phone number, things you have ordered, etc.). Only information you have provided is stored, and cookies are used to speed up the interactive process when you are online with a vendor. For instance, when you go to Amazon.com you may notice that the advertisements seem to be relevant to your interests. That is because your reading and music preferences are stored in cookies so that the web page can advertise specific deals that fit your taste.
Clearing History, Cookies, and Cache for Specific Web Browsers
For Mozilla Firefox:
For Google Chrome:
Mobile Devices
If you are using a mobile device, we encourage you to check the settings on your phone and your permissions for individual apps to see if there is anything you can do to increase your safety.
Information sourced from:
https://rainn.org/what-you-can-do-make-it-safer