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Security Policy

Summary

Our checkout page is encrypted with a valid SSL (Secured Socket Layer) certificate.  This certificate encrypts information as it travels from your computer to our web site and vice versa.  It is for this reason that you may feel safe placing orders here at our web site.  When you are entering confidential information such as credit card information, look for a small lock or key at the bottom of your browser window.  This means that you are communicating in a highly confidential manner with our company.

It is also for this reason that we do not take credit cards via standard email.  Emails containing credit card information will be immediately deleted from our system, and we will not be held liable for that happens to that information, whether after the fact, or intercepted by hackers sniffing for emails for 16 digit numbers or expiration dates.

Your use of this web site, or communication with us via email gives irrevocable consent in your understanding that we cannot be held liable for confidential information when transmitted via standard email.

AVS Fraud Protection

Professional web sites, such as this one, utilize a fraud protection tool known as AVS, or Address Verification Systems.  This means that the only way your credit card can be charged is if the street address and zip code match what is on file with the issuing bank.

You will also be asked for the 3 or 4 digit on the back of your credit card.  This is not a PIN number or password.  This is a number that verifies the actual card number.  We require this for purchasing at our web site.

It is our goal to keep your confidential information as encrypted and secure as possible.  We reserve the right to change this policy at any time.  This policy was last updated on October 1, 2005.