How to Avoid the Hazards of Shopping For Car Insurance Quotes Online

It's a crying shame when the most effective, efficient and downright convenient method of shopping around for car insurance quotes becomes a cesspit of paranoia and stolen identity. Unfortunately, that's exactly how many people are looking at shopping for car insurance quotes online! Here's what you can do to duck and dodge the inherent hazards of sharing any of your personal information on the Internet and pave the way toward great savings on your insurance.

The first thing you have to know are these four letters and three funny-looking symbols:

HTTPS://

What does that mean? To those of you fluent in techno-babble, HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. In good old-fashioned English, it means that a website has taken extra steps to keep your personal information personal and out of the hands of people who would use and abuse it out on the open market. If you want to know more about it, you can do your homework out on the web.

For now, however, all you need to know is these sites are safe, and should be your first choice when it comes to submitting requests for car insurance quotes online.

Next, let's talk about exactly how much personal information you really need to share with people when you go shopping for car insurance. You'd be amazed at how little they need to know to give you a fairly accurate "guesstimate" of how much you'll be paying for insurance. Your age, the make and model of your car, the number of accidents and/or traffic violations you've had in the past and your zip code are enough to get them started.

For that precise reason, it's important to steer clear of websites that require you to hand over your social security number, driver's license number or home address, especially if you don't see HTTPS preceding the URL. This leaves your information both exposed and vulnerable, which is the last thing you want when it's your finances, your credit and, in many ways, your continued quality of life on the line!

You never know who might be watching.

While we would love to believe that every site out there offering free car insurance quotes online is 100% honest, scrupulously guarding the secret of your personal information with a tenacity that would make Cerberus proud, the bottom line is that shopping online just isn't that simple. Not anymore. Reputable companies are doing everything they can to keep you safe, however, and if you're willing to meet them halfway shopping for insurance on the web can still be the safe, convenient method of finding a great deal on your coverage it was always intended to be.

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