Is It Safe To Buy From The Wild As The Wind Shop?

Understandably, there are a few people who are nervous about buying anything online. If you are one of these people, you deserve to be congratulated for your healthy scepticism. It is sensible to have reservations about online security and data protection. Sadly, we live in a world where these things cannot be taken for granted.

These issues will be discussed in greater detail later on in this article… but for the time being, the short answer to the question, of whether it is safe to buy from the Wild As The Wind Online Shop, is “Yes!” It is as safe as it can be.

Reasons Why The Wild As The Wind Online Shop Is Safe To Use

The Wild As The Wind Online Shop supports secure payments. This is because website addresses, (URLs), that begin with ‘https’ have secure payments enabled. You can look in the website address bar, at the top of your internet browser, to check if a website supports secure payments. If the URL begins with ‘https://’, then secure payments are supported.

In addition, the Wild As The Wind Online Shop was constructed, and is maintained by, an online security specialist, with 20 years experience in this field, making the Wild As The Wind Online Shop, in all likelihood, one of the safest online shops on the internet.

The architecture of this website is used by the vast majority of online shops around the world, owing to the fact it is considered functionally superior and one of the most secure solutions available.

The above statement is true at the time of writing, (2023).

The Wild As The Wind Online Shop has successfully served many thousands of customers. Please refer to customer testimonials to get a feel for the level of care taken with each order. Customer reviews can be found on individual product pages. They can also be found on the Testimonials Page.

Why We Should Be More Careful With Our Data

Very sadly, it seems that much of the amazingly brave work of people like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have passed a lot of people by.

This is not only a grave shame, it is potentially the precursor to the ultimate cause of the biggest loss of civil liberties and human rights ever witnessed in human history.

The irresponsibility of the many have placed everyone at risk.

The tech giants have no regard for our privacy because our personal data makes them very powerful, and very rich.

The misuse of data is what generates huge profits.

Google and YouTube Will Pay Record $170 Million for Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Law

Tech giants are not arbiters of fairness. Tech giants are in business to make money and exercise their own mandates. Google has been exposed for manipulating search results time and again, and has been ordered to pay millions in compensation for doing so. Facebook is being accused of the same, but both remain brazen in the face of undeniable proof.

Why We Should Be More Circumspect About Buying Online

The move toward dependency on the digital space is reshaping our world. The old adage, “use it or lose it!” definitely applies here… We need to buy things from real shops, from real people, using cash to do it. Buying from a faceless person online, using a digital means of exchange, means that every aspect of this activity can be monitored and logged. It means we have NO autonomy at all.

Therefore, buying online really feeds into the furtherance of the surveillance state and the potential for a wholesale loss of our liberties.

For this reason alone we should endeavour to buy from real people, in the real world, with real money.

Failing that, the next best thing is buying from small businesses who operate on and offline, like Wild As The Wind.

Small businesses are facing tremendous threats due to the adoption of online shopping. And sadly, in order to survive, small businesses have had to adopt an online presence alongside their offline activities.

Whilst the demands of operating an online presence is costly and onerous for a small business, there has been no other option for survival.

The decision to operate online, for Wild As The Wind, was a multi-faceted process, with a distinct primary point of focus.

It was clear that the online space was becoming increasingly swamped by fake essential oils. This sadly has been the case year-on-year since the naughties. So much so, in fact, that it is practically impossible to find genuine essential oils, online, especially via the major retailing platforms.

It has been imperative for a number of UK essential oil businesses to enter the online space to continue to supply the UK buying public with genuine essential oils.

This need, and the state of the UK essential oils market is covered in this UK Essential Oils Market Report, which list all the small UK essential oils businesses that have valiantly tried to rally in such difficult market conditions.

However, most people are completely unaware of the current problems and are happily buying as much as they can from Amazon. But, despite the many reasons why this is really bad news, there is one way in which this is good… Because of the sheer volume of online sales, happening every second, the chances of your purchase data being hacked is very slight.

The following quote, from a very determined Wild As The Wind customer, exemplifies the points raised, and illustrates even more challenges… (Wild As The Wind used to supply Europe before Brexit.)

… we do not have access to quality essential oils here [Finland], aside from one company called Young Living that sells oils of allegedly ok quality (not tried them, as you have to be a member and order a certain amount etc). I’ve ordered organic essential oils via Amazon, twice, but they have ALL been rubbish. When adding them to the water in a diffuser, weird chemical smells fill the air. The only oils that don’t do that, are yours – SURPRISE SURPRISE!!! It is sad what has happened to this market, that quality oils are hard to come by. 

The reason I haven’t ordered from yourself for some time is simply thanks to the Brexit issue. We have to suffer the lengthy and expensive process of ‘releasing’ every single parcel individually, from customs, that arrive from outside the EU. Tax has to be paid, forms have to be filled in and additional postage charges have to be paid. It is a royal pain in the *** Big companies like Amazon can bypass this issue (don’t know how?) and parcels arrive painlessly straight into the letterbox. I know these giants are evil but occasionally I add to the darkness :/