Internet
Security and Your Order
The internet is
a relatively secure environment, as long as the people using it follow basic
security procedures. Here at the Australasian College and Apothecary Shoppe,
we have taken additional steps to protect your (and our) security on the
web.
When you fill
your shopping cart and proceed to "Check Out", you will be passed to a
portion of our server that uses SSL to enter your personal and credit card
information. SSL, Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol used for
authenticating and encrypting web traffic. Authenticated web traffic means
that your browser is able to verify the identity of the remote server.
Encrypted web traffic means that traffic (in both directions) between our
server and your browser is scrambled so that in the remote event it is
intercepted, it is unintelligible. The encryption algorithims used are
comparable to those used by the Defense Department and other federal
agencies.
If you have tried to access a secure web page and have received an error
message saying something about an unknown authority and the page won't load,
you need to upgrade to the current version of your web browser. (Usually
Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape's Navigator/Communicator.) If this
occurs or your configuration doesn't support SSL or if you are still
uncomfortable with transmitting the number over a secure network, you can
also phone us at 1-800-487-8839 with your order.
Enjoy your
visit to our store and rest assured that your security is as important to us
as ours.
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