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Q.) I worry about the security of my credit card
and making purchases on-line. We
understand your concern about secure credit card orders over the internet because we often
feel the same way about ordering from unfamiliar sites ourselves. As long as you have a
secure browser, i.e. Netscape 3.0 or better, or MS Internet Explorer 3.0 or better (if you
use another browser, see your browser's documentation) and choose our secure ordering
option at check out, your information is about as secure as you can get.
It is encrypted between your browser and the shopping
cart server, and again (when we retrieve the last 6 digits of your credit card #) between
the server and our secure browser (we use Netscape 4.04), so that no one intercepting the
transaction can read it.
Your order is emailed to us (and never written to disk
on the server), sans the last 6 digits of your credit card #, so it does nobody any good
if they do intercept it. If the server was ever hacked, they would only find those missing
6 digits with no other info and no way of telling who's #'s are who's, because those last
6 digits are all that are ever stored on the server.
For a more detailed description please see below
and feel free to visit our shopping carts web site for even more info.
The following is an excerpt from Amercart's (our shopping cart provider)
FAQ page.
CREDIT CARD SECURITY
Q:
You say you offer "secure server" for credit card security.
What does that mean and how does it work?
A:
Hey, that was TWO questions! :-) The goal of Americart security is to achieve one
thing: To deliver credit card information from the customer to the merchant with the
minimum possibility of exposure to prying eyes. Our primary tool for this is the
utilization of secure data encryption. We encrypt the information between the you and the
cart, and then the merchant retrieves credit card information the same way.
Although orders are emailed to the merchant
in the clear, we strip off the last six digits of the credit card number, which the
merchant then retrieves through their secure browser, thus completing the secure path.
Q:
What about security on your server?
A:
All computers connected to the internet are theoretically vulnerable to break in, and ours
is no exception. Assuming we do have a security breach, a hacker wouldn't find much on our
system. We only store the last six digits of card numbers which wouldn't help them
at all. The first digits are "piped" straight out to mail, and is never written
to disk at all.
Any Questions?
If you have any questions or need expedited order processing and
delivery that isn't covered above, please call us at 1-909-394-4930 and we will be pleased
to help you.
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