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Privacy
This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information.
Security
Yahoo! Shopping uses secure servers to protect your personal information, including your name, address, and credit card information. We use the Stronghold secure server, currently the second-best selling secure server software and, in our opinion, the best product technically. It supports industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption.
When you enter your credit card number into the order form, it is transmitted across the Internet in an encrypted (scrambled) form and not decoded until we receive it. For added security, we also encrypt the credit card number when it is stored on disk and when we forward it to the merchant.
Shopping online is considered fairly low-risk. According to CNN, "The prevalent opinion... is that online credit card use is actually no riskier for consumers than traditional 'low-tech' transactions." You should feel as safe as you would using a credit card in a store or restaurant, if not more so.
Sometimes you may get a message that some pages on are not secure. This is a security alert message which results from browsing to a non-secure page from a non-secure page. We only secure the pages that contain your personal information including credit card numbers. This helps us keep the site quick and efficient. If you are ever concerned about the security of a page, simply look at the URL. If it begins with "https://" instead of "http://" the site is secure. Privacy: We respect your privacy. We never sell, rent, or give away your name, email, or address to anyone. All information provided is used exclusively by us here at bethelbotanicals.com for your shopping convenience.
