Security Statement
Overview
- Security of your Personal Information
- What we employ to secure your information
- The risks of ordering on the Internet | |
The Security of your
Personal Information
At ChockCatalog.com,
the security of our customers personal information is of utmost importance. We therefore
employ several technologies to protect information from being seen by anyone other than
the ChockCatalog.com staff. Below you will find a brief summary of the technologies we
employ and what role they perform in protecting your information.
1. 128-Bit Secure SSL Server - The latest in Internet secure server technology,
the 128-bit secure server enables the transfer of information through regular Internet
servers by encrypting the information. Encryption is complex way of coding the
information so that any party viewing the data before it is decrypted will see a
series of indecipherable letters and numbers. For example: Suppose your name is John and
it is very sensitive information. You want to send it over the Internet but don't want the
risk of someone on the Internet viewing your sensitive information [see Risk of Ordering
on the Internet below]. If you send it over a regular Internet server (when the lock
displayed on your browser is unlit), you risk a chance of someone prying into an Internet
server somewhere along the way. A 128 Bit secure server encrypts that data so that John
looks like &G^GH*HD8798b, but when it gets to the destination server it is decrypted
to John. A secure server does this to any information that is sent through it.
ChockCatalog.com employs this secure server to process orders through which credit card
numbers and e-mail addresses are sent. This secure server encrypts all data the same way -
to all people who purchase the server. We therefore employ a second technology to make our
encryption unique.
2. Digital Secure Server Certificate from Thawte.com - This certificate is our
unique encryption code verifying that any data that is encrypted can only be decrypted by
us. In other words, only we are able to transform the code back to John. If any other
decryption method is used, the data will not be the same. This basically guarantees 100%
that no one can get the information you send through our secure ordering system.
The Risks of Ordering on
the Internet
Simply put the risks of
someone getting your information - even unencrypted - is like finding a sliver of glass in
a haystack. There are billions of characters of data being sent on the Internet all at
once. If someone wants to find private information they would have to tap into an Internet
server that transfers data between servers and users. They then would have to use a
program to filter the data that passes through looking for 8-16 digit numbers created with
mathematical algarithms (created by the credit card companies). The chances of a program
finding 8-16 digits in millions of characters is nearly impossible, though it is possible.
After encryption it is impossible since the numbers are not in the algarithm that the
software is programmed to look for. This brings your risks down to zero. If you
have any further questions regarding the security of your information, please e-mail us at
security@chockcatalog.com.
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