Is ethicalbean.com safe?
http://ethicalbean.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Ethical Bean Coffee is a long-established Canadian coffee roaster selling beans directly through its own Shopify storefront, with no scam mechanics found.
ethicalbean.com is the direct-to-consumer store of Ethical Bean Coffee Company Limited, a Vancouver-based roaster. The domain is 8751 days old, the site publishes a domain email, a phone number and a physical pickup address, and every commercial link we mapped stays on the same host. Technical checks are clean and no deceptive or high-pressure commercial mechanism appears in the evidence, so the site scores in the Safe band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 88/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 8751 days old, consistent with a long-running business rather than a throwaway storefront.
- SupportsThe site publishes a domain email, a phone number and a Vancouver pickup address, giving visitors a way to reach the operator.
- SupportsNo malicious or suspicious detections, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid encrypted connection.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
ethicalbean.com is the direct-to-consumer store of Ethical Bean Coffee Company Limited, a Vancouver-based roaster. The domain is 8751 days old, the site publishes a domain email, a phone number and a physical pickup address, and every commercial link we mapped stays on the same host. Technical checks are clean and no deceptive or high-pressure commercial mechanism appears in the evidence, so the site scores in the Safe band.
A real coffee storefront with verifiable contact details
The page presents a normal online coffee shop: a SHOP menu, a SUBSCRIPTIONS entry, product cards for whole bean bags in 12oz, 2lb and 340g sizes, quantity selectors and Add to cart buttons, and a cart counter.
The operator is identifiable: the site lists info@ethicalbean.com on its own domain, a phone number (604-431-3830), and a pickup address at 1315 Kootenay Street, Vancouver, BC, by appointment only. The company name Ethical Bean Coffee Company Limited also appears in its own policy text.
A contact form offers ordinary support options such as talking to a coffee expert, placing an order, finding where to buy, checking an order, or reporting a problem — the kind of routing a real retailer provides.
Same-site commerce, clean technical checks
Every commercial call to action we mapped — SHOP NOW, shop subscription, the product Add to cart controls and the contact form — points back to ethicalbean.com itself. There is no cross-domain checkout, affiliate redirect or third-party order path in the evidence.
Technical checks are clean: no malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. These confirm the absence of known technical threats rather than proving operator conduct, but combined with the long-standing domain and published contact details they support a Safe rating.
The only policy text we saw is a standard satisfaction statement and an appointment-only pickup note; nothing in the evidence describes hidden charges, non-delivery, refund obstruction or a subscription trap.
Why the score is 88
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Restaurants/Food, Shopping
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerbusiness and economy
- Googleshopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
never run out of coffee
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
never run out of coffee
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Ethical Bean Coffee | 100% Fair Trade & Organic
- Meta description
We use only 100% fairtrade certified and organic beans roasted in Canada. This is the formula you taste in every cup of Ethical Bean. This is what makes us just. better.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/returns-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Ethical Bean Coffee | 100% Fair Trade & Organic
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 8751 days old, consistent with a long-running business rather than a throwaway storefront.
- 02The site publishes a domain email, a phone number and a Vancouver pickup address, giving visitors a way to reach the operator.
- 03No malicious or suspicious detections, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for ethicalbean.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for ethicalbean.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainethicalbean.com
- Redirects towww.ethicalbean.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesna.shgcdn3.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 11, 2002Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 23 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 27, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
ethicalbean.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@ethicalbean.com).
- Phone number listed (604-431-3830).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.ethicalbean.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- jQuery CDN
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ethicalbean.com/
- 2301https://ethicalbean.com/
- 3200https://www.ethicalbean.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 27, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 27, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Ethical Bean Coffee is a long-established Canadian coffee roaster selling beans directly through its own Shopify storefront, with no scam mechanics found.
ethicalbean.com is the direct-to-consumer store of Ethical Bean Coffee Company Limited, a Vancouver-based roaster. The domain is 8751 days old, the site publishes a domain email, a phone number and a physical pickup address, and every commercial link we mapped stays on the same host. Technical checks are clean and no deceptive or high-pressure commercial mechanism appears in the evidence, so the site scores in the Safe band.
09 · Community
Community
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