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About shopping securely on a site built by WNYWired Websites. You have chosen to shop on a web site designed by WNYWired Websites. Our Certificate of Authentication and our Secure Sockets Layer Certificate are granted to our parent company, WNY Networks, LLP. by Thawte, Inc. Thawte, Inc. is a global company and industry recognized Certification Authority selling Secured Sockets Layer Certificates to the public. Essentially, they verify that we are who we say we are, and we protect your data as it is sent across the Internet. WNYWired Websites have been developing secured sites since 2001, using the current best practices in the industry. Your personal information is encrypted at 128 bits, allowing you to have confidence that your transaction will remain private between you and the merchant you are purchasing from. Glossary of Web Browser Terms Certificate: An SSL certificate, or secure certificate, is a file installed on a secure Web server that identifies a website. This digital certificate establishes the identity and authenticity of the company or merchant so that online shoppers can trust that the website is secure and reliable. In order to verify that these sites are legitimate (they are who they say they are), the companies and their websites are verified by a third party, such as Verisign or Thawte. Once the verification company establishes the legitimacy of an organization and the associated website, they will issue an SSL certificate (for the small fee of a few hundred dollars). This digital certificate is installed on the Web server and will be viewable when a user enters a secure area of the website. You can tell you are visiting a secure page when the URL starts with "https." To view the certificate, click the lock icon near one of the edges of your browser window. Address bar is the area where you type in the address of the page you want to view. Browsers are software programs that enable you to view World Wide Web documents. They "translate" HTML-encoded files into the text, images, sounds, and other features you see. Microsoft Internet Explorer (called simply IE), Mozilla, Firefox and Safari are examples of browsers that enable you to view text and images and many other web site features. Encryption is the coding or scrambling of information so that it can only be decoded and read by someone who has the correct decoding key. Encryption is used in secure web sites as well as other mediums of data transfer. If a third party were to intercept the information you sent via an encrypted connection, they would not be able to read it. SSL Stands for "Secure Sockets Layer." SSL is a secure protocol developed for sending information securely over the Internet. Many web sites use SSL for secure areas of their sites, such as user account pages and online checkout. Usually, when you are asked to "log in" on a website, the resulting page is secured by SSL. SSL encrypts the data being transmitted so that a third party cannot "eavesdrop" on the transmission and view the data being transmitted. Only the user's computer and the secure server are able to recognize the data. SSL keeps your name, address, and credit card information between you and the merchant to whom you are providing it. Without this kind of encryption, online shopping would be far too insecure to be practical. When you visit a Web address starting with "https," the "s" after the "http" indicates the website is secure. These websites often use SSL certificates to verify their authenticity. Thawte, Inc. is a global company and industry recognized Certification Authority selling SSL Certificates to the public. These and more Internet definitions can be found on sharpened.net |
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