Privacy Statement
Your email address will never be shared with
or sold to anyone.
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We will
never sell, share, or give your information to anyone else without
your permission.
At Peko, we have a firm commitment to your security and privacy.
If you have any questions about this store, how we process your
credit card,
or ship the products, please
contact
us by e-mail
or call 1-250-448-4846
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About Security
Many writers and analysts, both on the Web and in the more traditional media,
think that security concerns
might prevent Internet E-Commerce from succeeding, but E-Commerce is already
more secure than most
traditional business transactions. The problem lies in the perception of
security problems on the Internet.
Is Online ordering really safe? By Scott Radin
online shopping consultant to Channel 2 News, Buffalo, NY.
Click Here
PayPal keeps your
bank and credit card details private from sellers.
When you pay through PayPal, your credit card and the bank numbers are never
seen by a seller or merchant.
Your financial information stays private and safe.
Plus, you’re protected 100% against unauthorized payments sent from your
account.
Traditional
Security
When you phone or fax in a credit card order to a traditional
mail-order business, nothing in particular guarantees the security of your
information. The fax machine at the other end could be in an open office
where anyone could grab your transmission and use the numbers. The operator
could write your credit card data on a slip of paper that could be taken
the same way. When you give your card to your server in a restaurant, you
can't be sure what happens to the information while it's out of your sight.
Yet people perceive these kinds of transactions as safe because they've
been around for years, and in that time we've discovered that most people
don't get ripped off. We trust that nothing untoward will be done with our
sensitive credit card numbers. With good reason, too: any business that
regularly let its customers' credit cards be defrauded wouldn't have those
customers for long.
When
you are shopping online it is first important that you determine if an order
is going to be processed with a secure method of data transfer. Second it
is important that the web site clearly outlines their "Security and Privacy"
policy. Lastly, and I emphasize this point, the site should clearly reflect
their location, phone number, and email address.
Thus,
when you are shopping on a site, the following steps are recommend.
1. Even
before shopping, attempt to locate their contact information.
If you do not find a location, phone number, and email address,
then move on to a new web site. Don't mistake a P.O. Box as an address!
2. If the contact information is found, then look for a "Privacy" or
"Security and Privacy" statement. If found; take a couple of minutes to
read it and make sure you can live with its terms. If not you will find
that your personal information may be shared or sold…legally. If you can't
find such a statement or you don't agree with the terms of said statement,
then move on to a new web site.
Web
Security
A few years ago, Web browser makers realized that if commerce were ever
to become serious business on the Internet, they would have to address security
concerns as well. The major browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer, have included secure socket layer (SSL) technology since their
3.0 versions, and many other browsers such as Opera do as well.
The SSL technology implemented in many "shopping cart" style sites uses
an electronic identity certificate, for which E-Commerce merchants apply
through a certificate service.
The certificate acts as a "signature" to verify that a secure Web server
is from the company it claims to be. Customers' names, addresses,
and credit card numbers are processed by complex mathematical encryption
algorithms to ensure that only the authorized server to which they are connected
can decode the information. You can tell when you are making a secure Web
transaction by the Web address, which is preceded by https:// instead of
just http://, and by the appearance of a secure solid key or closed padlock
icon in the lower corner of your Secure browsers window.
The "strong encryption" versions of the major Web browsers are so secure,
in fact, that the United States government classifies their encryption technology
as a munition, like guns and explosives, and restricts the strong-encryption
browsers from being exported outside the U.S.A. and Canada. (The regular
encryption browsers available elsewhere in the world are extremely secure
too-just not secure enough to be considered a weapon!)
E-mail
Security
The truth is that sending credit
card information by E-mail as plain text, without any encoding at all, is
more secure than most traditional credit card transactions. Although it's
possible for someone to intercept the credit card numbers as they get routed
through the Internet to their destination, it is more difficult than snooping
on cellular telephone calls, for instance.
If you separate your credit card numbers into two individual E-mail messages,
one half in each, snooping is even harder, since the Internet is designed
in such a way that two E-mails are likely to reach their target by entirely
different routes-and anyone trying to intercept them wouldn't be able to
get both parts.
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