The Things I Love offers a secure online commerce environment. All credit transactions occur in a secure area of our site, protecting you from loss or misuse of information. The transfer of sensitive information between you and The Things I Love is protected by the highest standard of encryption technology available on the Internet.

Public/private key cryptography enables the creation of a secure “conversation” between your browser and our secure server. While this conversation could potentially be “overheard,” it cannot be decrypted.

How You Can Tell You’re Browsing a Secure Website
In order to be sure that information transferred between your browser and the The Things I Love server is secure, it is important to be aware of the security information available to you through your browser.

We have opted to secure our entire site as well as the checkout process (i.e. when you’re ready to purchase the items you have placed in your shopping cart). Your connection to our server becomes secure the moment you are connected to our website, a security feature which is enacted automatically; you do not have to take any action to invoke them. To confirm that you are operating in secure mode, look at the bottom of your browser window. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your browser, which we have viewed using Internet Explorer 6-8, and the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome) or your URL bar has changed color to green you can be sure that your information is secure.

You can also ensure security by checking the URL line of your browser. When you enter the secure area of our site, the first characters of the site address will change from “http” to “https”.

Data Encryption & Risk of Decryption

The Things I Love makes use of a 2048-bit encryption key issued by GoDaddy, Inc. When a secure connection is initiated, our server’s public key is automatically transferred to your browser. Your browser then uses this key to encrypt information transferred back to The Things I Love . This information can only be decrypted using the private key installed on The Things I Love ’s secure server.

As with all things security related, given time something once considered secure will eventually not remain so. For example, you may have read in the news that the RC4 encryption algorithm had been broken. The fact is a single stationary message (like an email message) which had been encrypted using the less powerful 40-bit key was successfully decrypted. However, decrypting this single, stationairy message utilized 120 computer workstations and two parallel supercomputers spread across three major research centers for more than 8 days. Decrypting additional messages would take the same amount of time and resources.

We constantly upkeep our security encryption state to the latest and highest available, even though the 128-bit encryption (nor any higher level bit encryption key has been broken) and that your web transactions are not stationary. As you are constantly moving around on a given site someone would have to be watching, capture everything you do or know exactly which data transaction was financially based.

Top 10 Online Smart Shopping Tips
Visit the Direct Marketing Association’s Top 10 Online Smart Shopping Tips for safety tips and precautions to take when shopping online. The DMA Consumer Assistance Web site also offers consumer protection information for shopping online, by phone, or by mail.

Contacting the Webmaster
We’ve worked hard to bring you a secure online commerce environment, and we value your questions, comments, and concerns. If you have any feedback about our Web site security, please contact us via email or via regular mail:

WebSecurity
The Things I Love
191 S Main St
New City, NY, 10965
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