Friday, January 7, 2011

Keeping yourself safe on 2Hands....

2Hands has some very simple rules. We ask that you make sure you use the Posting Number that you registered with when you post. We ask that you start your posting with your city. People need to know where you live. Finally, we ask that you put no personal information in your posting.

Putting email addresses, phone numbers, full names, physical addresses or even wording that could lead someone to knowing too much about you opens you up to spam, solicitors, unwanted contacts or more. Placing a posting on the site, following the simple rules, not replying to anyone responding to your posting as a Guest, especially when they ask that you contact them via email, and only responding through the site when we have contacted you and given your contact information to someone who has Properly completed the form to assist you makes your use of the 2Hands website a safe one.

When you register, you are required to give an email address. Problem is, a lot of email addresses contain full names. We encourage people to create a new email account, with Gmail for instance that contains no information about you. Use this new email address as the email you give 2Hands. If someone requests your information, we then give them this new safe email address as your contact information. Most emails, Gmail for instance, allow you to forward these emails to your original email address so you will not miss any emails from 2Hands.

We only wish that everyone could follow the simple rules completely!! :)

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