Digby's Online is committed to protecting your privacy. We will not sell or disclose any information that identifies you to a third party without your prior approval. We may use the information we collect to periodically notify you about new services or special offers we think you'll find valuable. If you would rather not receive this information, you may send an e-mail to sales@digbyonline.com with "unsubscribe" as the subject line. Digby's Online does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.

Digby's Online web site and shopping cart is hosted By Homestead Technologies. When you click into our shopping cart you are entering a secure website where your financial information is secure and protected. See details below.

HOMESTEAD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
3425 Edison Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025

PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated August 2006

Is Digby's Online site safe to accept customers' credit cards over the Internet?

Absolutely. Digby's is hosted by Homestead Storefront and uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL), also known as secure order protection, secure certificate or digital certificate. Developed by Netscape, SSL is a protocol for securely encrypting and transmitting electronic information between web servers across the Internet, and is the most popular method for ensuring the secure transmission of credit card data and consumer information.

Why is SSL important?

Every time an e-commerce transaction is conducted on the Internet, personal confidential data like credit card numbers or social security numbers are exchanged among the shopper, the merchant and the appropriate parties involved in the transaction process like a payment processor. This information is susceptible to interception by unauthorized third parties and malicious attacks by computer hackers. SSL protects against these risks. At the same time, it also authenticates or validates the ownership of a website and ensures that the submitted data is supplied to the rightful storefront owner and the appropriate parties involved in the purchase transaction. SSL is a critical requirement for conducting responsible, competitive e-commerce. Many savvy shoppers will not make purchases at websites that lack the level of security expected from e-commerce sites today. In fact, merchants with SSL-enabled sites may likely witness an increase in business simply by providing consumers the peace of mind that their personal information and consumer data is safeguarded.

How can a shopper tell if an e-commerce site is secured with SSL?

Web sites hosted on web servers that are secured with a valid SSL certificate will display a security lock icon at the bottom of the web browser screen. The icon will change from the opened position to the locked position upon entering a secured area of the site. In addition, when a secure server connection is established between the user's web browser and the merchant's web server, the URL will display "https://" in its address. The "s" represents "secure." In an e-commerce website without SSL, there will be no security lock icon, and the URL address will also not display the "s" after "http."

 

You will see the Security Icon, pictured below, when you enter our secure checkout.

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