PRIVACY & SECURITY

 

CrystalShades.com is committed to protecting your privacy. Absolutely ALL of your information is kept strictly confidential. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where that personally identifiable information may be requested.

 

Secure Online Shopping with CrystalShades.com

You can shop at CrystalShades.com online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks (see an online payments diagram) . The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• Your credit card details and personal information is protected by industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology with 128-bit encryption of critically sensitive information. That means information passed between your computer and www.crystalshades.com cannot be read in the event someone else intercepts it.

• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.

• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

CrystalShades.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program. Click on the seal to verify:

When you see a padlock in the bottom right-hand corner of your browser status bar you know that a digital certificate has been installed onto this website and that SSL encryption is in place. This means that information being transmitted between your Web Browser and the Web Server you are connected to on the Internet is safe from being tampered with.

Your financial information is used to bill you for the products you ordered, and is stored on our servers with special multiple security measures. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Our Servers use multiple security measures, that guarantee the impossibility of external interference. Of course none of the customers personal data is given to third parties.

 

The Way We Use Information

CrystalShades.com uses the information you provide about yourself when placing a request only to perform the requested function. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. We use your phone number or/and other contact information only to be able to contact you in case of problems with your order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that request.

 

In the future, you will be able to register with our website if you would like to receive updates from CrystalShades.com. Information you submit on our website will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the registration form. We may occasionally e-mail to our customer list or/and ask for feedback, but we do not sell, trade, or give your personal information to other companies or organizations.

 

In order to protect all our customers against potential credit card fraud, CrystalShades.com website statistics program does keep track of IP address.