Shopping Cart Software
by Beanbasket eCommerce Web Hosting

Our Approach to Security

We take security very seriously. This encompasses everything from providing our customers the highest grade system security that is implemented within current browsers to a comprehensive privacy statement governing how we store and use the information that is provided to us.

What We Use

We use RSA encryption within our web servers for full 128bit encryption. Our site certificate, as well as all our programming code that requires "signing", is verified by VeriSign, Inc., the clear leader in providing secure authentication services. These certificates enable us to prove our identity and establish a secure communications channel to customers.

Security for Your Site

The same security features that we use ourselves for electronic commerce can also be enabled for your own website. Alternatively, for those applications that we host for you, our own secure certificate is utilized and you can rest assured that your information will be protected.

Blocking Access to Content

We attempt to block "robots" through our robot exclusion file. This eliminates other sites from indexing our pages and retrieving the information provided to us. This only applies to those systems (ie. WebCrawler) which abide by the robot exclusion standard.
It is also possible with some services that we provide to allow for our customers to block access to content. Typically this is done with BASIC or DIGEST access control lists. We are able to assist our customers in setting up these controls.

How We Store Critical Data

Where appropriate, passwords are stored in an encrypted form within our databases. We may not have the ability to supply you with your original password, but given certain authorization information concerning your identity, we may be able to reset your password to a new one that you should specify. With secure ordering, this process is done. For general moderated or unmoderated discussion groups, this level of encryption is not done.