SITE SECURITY

We work to protect your security at each step of your shopping experience with us.  These steps include...

Credit Card Transactions
Branching Out Pottery is a secure website.  For your protection, we have taken a number of steps to maximize the security of financial transactions that are accepted on the Branching Out Pottery Web Site.  Credit Card processing is accomplished using secure processing services.  Your entry of credit card information is encrypted when transmitted in secure mode.
 
We do not retain your credit card information or transmit your credit card information to any third party.

Note:  If you are behind a firewall, the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) feature of your browser and the processing of the credit card may be blocked.  If this occurs, we recommend you contact us at our toll-free number above to arrange to have your order taken by phone.
 
If for any reason, you still feel uncomfortable submitting your credit card over the Internet, you can call or mail the information for your order to us at our address above.

Encryption of All Personal Information
Branching Out Pottery automatically encrypts your confidential personal and credit card information in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits to 256-bits via SGC SSL (the highest level commercially available). When you first enter our website, before you even proceed to checkout or enter any personal information, our web server automatically checks that you're using an approved browser - one that uses SSL 3.0 or higher.
 
Once your information reaches us, it resides on a server that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically. Our servers sit behind an electronic firewall and are not directly connected to the Internet, so your private information is available only to authorized computers.

General Web Server Security
All Branching Out Pottery Web servers reside in a secure facility that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically. Our servers sit behind an electronic firewall and are not directly connected to the Internet.
 
All of the personal information collected from you on the Site, including names, addresses, are stored behind a firewall, and defenses have been erected to seek to enhance the protection of your information from outside attack by hackers and curious visitors.

Protecting Access to Your Personal Information
You may review or update your billing and shipping information at any time by logging on to your user account on our website.  This information is kept secure by using your email and a password.  Do not share your password with other individuals if you do not want them to be able to see the details of your orders or your shipping or billing address.  Your email address and password are used to authenticate you to the area of our website where you can review this information.  No one else may view your information.