HTTPS is a more secure way to send information over the internet. When you use www.english-online.org.uk you will see that the web address now starts with HTTPS:// and there is a little green padlock next to the name.

Https is usually used to protect personal information that you send to a website, such as email addresses and even bank details. Even though English for Everybody does not ask for this sort of information about you, there are still several reasons why we have chosen to make it safer for you to use this website.

Firstly, it stops other computers on the internet from pretending to be English for Everybody. As a result it is harder to trick you to going to a false website that might try to attack your computer or steal your information.

With https, only your computer and the website you are using can understand the information going between you. This is important because if someone uses an attack program to see what you are doing on the internet, then that attack program can - for example - insert false advertisements that take you to hacker websites or load a virus on to your computer.

This is even more dangerous if you use a computer in a coffee shop or other places where you do not know the other people on your network.

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