About SFG

ShoppingForGifts.com is a solely owned subsidiary of A.S. Radin & Associates

SFG is a gift and shopping related search engine developed in 2001 to provide a clear and easy path to finding the appropriate stores that match your needs. WE ARE NOT A MERCHANT - rather a provider of the best links to satisfy your shopping needs. We offer a state of the art search engine through our relationship with Google™ and our wildly popular MERCHANT BILLBOARDS with advertisements and links to the best of the best online merchants. Providing the Internet's easiest to follow gift shopping directory since 2001. This is not your normal shopping directory and search engine. We have assembled more than 700 of the Internet's finest online stores so you can experience the best online shopping experience. Each of the online stores that we endorse on this site have passed our 5 step security test where we reviewed accessibility - privacy - security - contact - customer service. We have the online stores that you can trust.

We find stores mostly through various merchant related networks and affiliations though we do consider individual submissions. Before we place a store on our site, the store has to give us permission after it has to pass our 5 step test. Some stores do deny us permission after learning of our 5 step test - and those are the stores that we do not want.

OUR 5 STEP TEST TO MAKE IT INTO OUR DIRECTORY

1. Accessibility -

It has to be easy to navigate
It can't have broken links
It has to be hosted on a privately owned domain OR
If hosted on a public domain (IE Yahoo)- it has to be a trusted domain
It has to follow the same philosophy throughout

2. Privacy -

It has to have a Privacy Statement
It has to contain statements on the transfer of private data
It has to address how your information is gathered
It has to address the use of "cookies" if used
It has to address general liabilities of both store and consumer

3. Security -

The order pages have to be secure
The secure pages must be covered by a secure certificate (IE Thawte)
The secure certificate has to be up to date
If the secure area is on a public domain (IE Yahoo) it must be trusted
The confirmation or receipt page must be secured as well

4. Contact -

The store must have complete contact details on site including phone and physical addresses

4. Customer Service -

The store must have a working customer service link by either phone or email (or both)

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