Smoker Source Privacy statement
We collect certain information from customers for billing and shipping purposes.
None of the information collected for these functions is provided to any
outside party for promotional, commercial or profitable usage of any kind.
When you submit payment information, it is transfered with secure protocols,
directly to payment gateways (bank systems), and your payment/account details is not stored
on our servers.
There are security meassures and cryptography in use to make sure that
your non-payment information (like name and address) is and will stay safe with us.
If payment method fraud or
any other type of criminal behaviour is suspected, your information may
be subject of investigation and may be provided to investigating authorities.
When a money transaction is conducted, some of your information is provided to
the merchant gateway or financial institution for billing verification, this is all
done in a secured way.
Security information
All personal
information, login password, username, credit card and check numbers are all transfered
in a secure way. We use standard, well known and widely used cryptography technology.
When you activate any function or go to any page that require secure connections, you
will automatically be switched over to a secure connection, using SSL (Secure Socket
Layer). This secure mode is easily recognizeable by the web page address in your
browser, it will start with https:// (instead of http:// which is non-secured). When you
log in or create a new account with us, all this is tranfered securely.
We have our own secure certificate for this web page, which
can be used to identify that this page and information is coming from the correct source.
On the left side there is a secure site verification image/link that you can click to
verify the identity of this site with the certificate authority.
Many web browsers has
a security-lock icon (see lower right corner) which you can click to view the certificate
information when you are on a secured page.
Smoker Source believes that security is priority number one, we are doing
everything we can to make sure that your data is staying safe with us.
Security Certificate warning message
If you are using an older web browser, such as Netscape version 4, you may get a warning message
while accessing the secured pages; it may tell you that EquiFax is not a certified authority. This
is not true, it is your web browser that is so old that it does not know who Equifax is. Equifax is a
mother/partner company of GeoTrust which issues secure certificates
just as Verisign does. For this reason, as well as for other security reasons we strongly recommend that
you update your web browsers to a newer version, like FireFox, IceWeasel, SeaMonkey, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
We recommend FireFox or SeaMonkey since it is developed by a non-profit organization that do not favor monopoly in one
one way or the other, it is based on the same fundation as Netscape (Gecko) and in many ways behaves the same.
You can download them from Mozilla.Com, it
comes for most major platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac, and other Unices.
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