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Card transactions are handled electronically through an encrypted VeriSign
Payment Services connection without human intervention. No need to give your credit card
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& MapNOW.com
are Divisions of
4X4BOOKS.com
Serving the web since 1996
Dedicated Secure Server and Digital Certificate
To insure the the ultimate protection of your transaction data, 4X4BOOKS.com
is hosted on its own dedicated web server with its own private SSL web server Digital
Certificate. This secures and
authenticates our website to your web browser, thereby ensuring safe (encrypted)
electronic commerce across the Internet between your computer and our server.
What's this "Secure Web Site" all about?
Web browsers can operate in "normal" mode and in "secure" mode. You can tell which mode your browser is in by looking at the toolbar at the bottom of the browser window. If you see a broken key, or an open padlock, you are in normal mode. If the key is whole, or the padlock is closed, you are in "secure" mode.
When you surf the Net in "normal" mode, all of the information you type into your browser and all the information the Web site sends to you are visible to eavesdroppers. When your browser is in "secure" mode it encrypts all the information between itself and the server. Encrypted information looks like meaningless garbage to eavesdroppers, so your personal information is secure. Your name, address, phone number and credit card data are transmitted across the Internet in "secure" mode with our own private 4X4BOOKS.com Digital Certificate.
A digital certificate contains our company name, 4X4BOOKS.com, along with a cryptographic key used to encrypt information sent to us over the Internet. When your browser switches into secure mode, it asks our web site site to present its certificate. The browser decides whether or not it trusts the certificate by looking at who issued it. If the browser trusts the certificate (as it will with ours), then it will encrypt all communications with our web site, using the cryptographic key in the certificate. Our private Digital Certificate means that you can have confidence that you are sending information to 4X4BOOKS.com only and doing so securely.
Credit Card Number Security
Credit
Card transactions are handled electronically through an encrypted VeriSign
Payment Services connection without human intervention. No need to give your credit card
number in the clear over an unsecured phone line to a stranger.
So just how safe is my credit card number and contact information?
An on-line order through the 4X4BOOKS.com web site is safer and more secure than an "in person" transaction with a clerk at your corner gas station. It is far safer and more secure than a telephone order where you give you credit card number and contact information over an unsecured phone line to a stranger.
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