First, they include paying attention to private policies. This protects user information because the user is aware if the company may provide private information to third parties. It is best to provide information only to those companies that do not provide information to third parties. This leads to ensuring that online forms are secure. Make sure the website has an SSL certificate, that the contents do not come from third parties and ask if this data is truly safe. If any of these are not true, your personal data is available to third parties. Another way to protect your privacy is to reject unnecessary cookies (Milne et al 219). This is important because cookies track where you go and what you search for. Thieves can access this information. Next, it encrypts the emails. Email encryption causes the text to be garbled to those who don't have the password to decrypt it. Email encryption ensures that the only person who reads an email is the person to whom the message was sent. There are other tools such as anonymous remailers and anonymizers that allow you to hide your identity while browsing the Internet. They prevent identity theft by preserving identity and personal information while almost hiding their tracks ((Milne et al