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Why is
Online Ordering Safe and Secure?
Is a credit card transaction of this type really safe from
fraud? The short answer is "Yes." The long answer is...Most
consumers do not realize that security protocols and technologies
currently exist to protect them. Most of the reported credit card
fraud over the internet has involved people emailing their credit
card account numbers to merchants, or web sites accepting credit
cards without using any security protocols.
Such potentially insecure methods of data transmission are not
used here at Group Publishing, Inc. We employ the latest in
internet security and electronic commerce security:
Operating System Security.
We have employed the strictest security (secure users, groups and
passwords) offered by our high-end operating system.
Database Security. Group
Publishing, Inc. gathers customers, products, and orders in
databases. Those databases are secured with passwords set up at the
table level. Even someone typing on the computer the database is
stored on would have to know the database passwords to gain access
to the information.
Encoded Credit Card Slips.
Credit card transactions (or slips, as they are known in the
banking industry) are encoded using the Secure Electronic Commerce
(SET) standard pioneered by Visa and MasterCard. Even if someone
were to intercept a transaction, they would not be able to gain
access to the information. Credit card transactions are handled in
real time between your credit card issuer and our bank.
SSL Server Certificate.
Group Publishing, Inc. uses an SSL server certificate. What's a
server certificate? A company wanting to do business on the world
wide web must prove to a trusted third party, such as VeriSign Inc.
or Thawte Consulting, that they really exist and have the right to
use a particular domain name (Internet address). An SSL Certificate
is then assigned to that business that authenticates their
domain.
When a customer uses a modern web browser (such as Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer), the browser can
automatically check the business's authenticity. If the browser
can't verify that VeriSign or Thawte vouches for the business, it
will refuse to start an encrypted session, or at least pop up a
window warning the customer that the browser can't determine
authenticity. The encryption mechanism used for SSL certificates is
so secure, the U.S. government prohibits its export outside the
United States.
So shopping with us at Group Publishing, Inc. really is safe. In
fact, it would be much easier for a thief to steal your credit card
information from the carbon copy of a receipt than to intercept an
online secure transaction at our web site.
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