At Atlantic Electronics, we understand that our customers wish to keep their personal information private, and we have gone to great lengths to ensure that all such information is guaranteed complete privacy.
Credit Card and Order Data
The checkout and confirmation areas of atlantic2u.com are secured using SSL encryption. This ensures that your credit card number and personal information are never sent over the Internet unencrypted. We will not store your credit card information at any time. We use the Barclaycard Business secure online service for our card payment authorisation. When you make a purchase from our website and proceed to checkout you are directed to the Barclaycard Business ePDQ CPI, a secure payment environment where you can pay by credit or debit card. The Barclaycard Business ePDQ CPI automates and completes the transaction in full. Your credit card number is never displayed on our site. Only the last four digits of your card will ever be shown. Also, your personal information, such as your address, e-mail and billing information, are stored in a secure server within the data center. Only those with proper authorization can view this data. We guarantee it.
At atlantic2u.com, we use VeriSign, which is recognized as one of the worldwide leaders in secure e-commerce payment technologies and services.
In the following section, we've tried to answer common questions and concerns as honestly as possible.
How do I know if a website is secure?
In order to be accurate, we're going to get a bit detailed here. When buying something on the Internet, there are three things you need to be sure of:
The data you send will be strongly encrypted.
The site you're doing business with is the site you think it is.
The site you're doing business with processes your credit card and address information in a safe and responsible manner.
Points 1 and 2 are taken care of by SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), the industry standard security protocol that atlantic2u.com uses to communicate with secure browsers like Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. When communicating with a secure server like ours, these browsers encrypt the information you send in a way that is extremely difficult for anyone else to decode. (You don't have to know whether your browser supports secure transactions - if it doesn't, you won't be able to complete the checkout process.)
Many security experts say the most important thing is what happens once the merchant receives your order. At Atlantic Electronics, we use VeriSign, the leading provider of electronic commerce solutions, to keep things on our end as safe as possible. Using VeriSign does not give us the ability to keep a copy of your credit card number on file. While this is a minor inconvenience - whether ordering on the Internet or by phone, you have to give us the number every time you order - we believe it's the safest and most honest way to do business.
Which parts of the Atlantic site are secure?
Most of the activity on our site involves the viewing of materials we've prepared and made accessible to everyone, so there's no need for these pages to be "secure". With a product page, for example, no security risk exists because there is no "information" being exchanged.
The portion of the site we've made secure is, not surprisingly, the checkout area. This is where you actually purchase the items you've put into your Shopping Cart. The "Billing & Shipping Information" page and all checkout pages after that are in a secure environment.
Cookies used on atlantic2u.com
"Cookies" are small pieces of data that your browser holds in memory or stores in a special file on your hard drive. These small pieces of data are used to help our server remember you while you browse our site from one link to the next and allow us to improve the quality of your experience when you visit our site. Cookies also allow you to place items in your shopping cart, continue browsing, and come back to check out at a later time. We do not use cookies to store any of your personal or financial information on your computer or on our servers.
We hope this information has answered your questions regarding security on our website.
