I know n0nce knows this, but I'm replying for the OP.
On the word of privacy; if you look up your balance via normal blockchain explorers and SPV wallets, the provider of that site can and will link & save your IP address and the Bitcoin address you looked up. There are multiple ways to avoid this and it may deserve its own topic. I personally, since a long time, either look up addresses over the Tor version of blockchain explorers, or just use my own Bitcoin node.
If you look up the balance of your addresses in clearnet, your IP can be traced and make yourself neither private nor anonymous. Visiting the block explorers from Tor won't work either, because the receiver (onion service) will query for different addresses, but from the same sender which can then link them. If you want to protect your privacy you'll have to change your relay circuit every time.
Or a much more private and easy way: Run a node.