Whether you’re a college student or high school student, looking forward to your last break of the school year: spring break, may have the tendency to bring joy and excitement to your heart. 

Thankfully, it is right around the corner. According to the Travel Channel, here are five tips when it comes to staying safe while having one week of fun in the sun:

• Protect your location on social media sites. By simply adjusting the “location” settings on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other apps, anyone including friends has access to one’s location at any time. These sites have the easy ability to endanger your safety in the snap of a finger. To be cautious, make sure to adjust your privacy settings and make sure your current location is not revealed. You wouldn’t want strangers to know where you are during spring break.

• Create a code word. While you are “chillin’ out, maxin’, and relaxin’ all cool,” as actor and rapper Will Smith once said, anything can happen. During spring break, teens tend to stay out of their house during late nights or simply spend all day at the beach or park. Just in case an odd person or even animal may approach you, make sure you have a code word to say for your friends to know that you are in need of help.

• Tan safely. In preparation for a beach day, skydiving day, or any daytime outdoor activity, opt out of roasting in the sun or in a heated tanning bed. Instead of taking a risk to get skin cancer, choose another tanning alternative like going spray tanning or tanning yourself.

• Carry cash. In the worst case scenario, carrying cash versus a card is the best way to go. If you were to lose your wallet and someone maxed out your credit card before you could even cancel it, get ready for a route of stress and confusion. Instead of having a card on you during spring break, make cash and a license the only items in your wallet. Unless you are trying to purchase an expensive item, there’s no reason to carry a card.

• Know phone numbers. Knowing phone numbers at all times could make your spring break trip a lot easier. If you were to get lost in an unknown area with a dead phone or no phone at all, borrowing someone else’s phone then of course giving it back would not hurt. If you are a teen, memorizing your mother’s, father’s, sibling’s, or any best friend’s number could one day come in handy if you end up in a “no where to turn” predicament.