Security
Frankford Umbrellas takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information through the Web site, their information is protected both online and offline. Our staff will not disclose any customer information, names or purchasing information to anyone outside of Frankford Umbrellas', unless required to do so by law.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry -- SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open, which is its designation when you are just "surfing." While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user information offline.
What is SSL?
The SSL (and TLS) protocol is the Web standard for encrypting communications between users and SSL (secure sockets layer) e-commerce sites. Data sent via an SSL connection is protected by encryption, a mechanism that prevents eavesdropping and tampering with any transmitted data. SSL provides businesses and consumers with the confidence that private data sent to a Web site, such as credit card numbers, are kept confidential. Web server certificates (also known as secure server certificates or SSL certificates) are required to initialize an SSL session.
Customers know when they have an SSL session with a website when their browser displays the little gold padlock and the address bar begins with a https rather than http. SSL certificates can be used on webservers for Internet security and mailservers such as imap, pop3 and smtp for mail collection / sending security.