Site Security

When you make a purchase on this site, you are protected by SSL 128 bit data encryption.
You are asked to enter your name, address, phone number, etc. on a standard form.  After completing this (and before entering any credit information)
you are taken to the secure page.  You can tell that the page is secure by the padlock at the bottom.

If you click on this padlock, a pop-up window will show you the label "SSL Secured (128 bit)"

This site uses the industry standard security protocol Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encode sensitive information like credit card numbers.
SSL works by creating a temporary, shared "key" (sort of a digital code book) that lets only the computers on either end of a transmission scramble and unscramble information.
To anyone between the sender and the receiver, including all the servers that may relay the message, the SSL transmission is indecipherable gibberish.

On-line companies get digital certificates from a Security Certificate - verifies a company's identification.
It then issues a unique certificate as proof of identity. It is the on-line commerce version of saying "Can I see some ID, please?"

SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message.  Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers.  By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:.

So, when you make that purchase, your information is protected from your computer to our bank.
Our staff do not have access to that credit card information