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SECURE SHOPPING

At KozyCorners.com, we support SSL 128-bit encryption to protect your sensitive, private and personal information that is transferred from your computer to our server.  This makes it a safe shopping experience.

What do I need to do to enable this SSL 128-bit encryption?

You don't need to do anything extra.  All our webpages that you use to enter in your personal information such as when you register or when you enter your credit card information will automatically be secure.

How do I know that the SSL 128-bit encrption is on?

You will know a particular webpage is secure by looking at two things: 1)The web address starts with "https:" (note the "s" at the end of https), 2)You see a padlock icon on your web browser, usually at the top or bottom.

We do not turn on this SSL 128-bit encryption for every single page on our website as it will slow down shopping experience.  The encyrption process is resource and time consuming.  Instead, we only activate the SSL 128-bit encryption on webpages where you actually enter in personal information such as the registration page or order checkout page where you enter in credit card information.

What is a Web Server Certificate?

A Web Server SSL Certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates the identity of a Web site to visiting browsers and encrypts information for the server via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. Encryption is the process of scrambling data into an undecipherable format — ciphertext —, which can only be returned to a readable format with the proper decryption key. All our Web Server Certificates use 128-bit encryption.

A certificate serves as an electronic "passport" that establishes an online entity's credentials when doing business on the Web. When an Internet user attempts to send confidential information to a Web server, the user's browser will access the server's digital certificate and establish a secure connection.

How does a Web Server Certificate Work?

A Web Server SSL Certificate secures safe, easy and convenient Internet shopping. Once an Internet user enters a secure area — by entering credit card information, e-mail address or other personal data, for example — the shopping site's Web Server SSL Certificate enables the browser and Web server to build a secure, encrypted connection. The SSL "handshake" process, which establishes the secure session, takes place discreetly behind the scene without interrupting the consumer's shopping experience. A "padlock" icon in the browser's status bar and the "https://" prefix in the URL are the only visible indications of a secure session in progress.

By contrast, if a user attempts to submit personal information to an unsecured Web site (i.e., a site that is not protected with a valid SSL certificate), the browser's built-in security mechanism will trigger a warning to the user, reminding him/her that the site is not secure and that sensitive data might be intercepted by third parties. Faced with such a warning most Internet users likely will look elsewhere to make a purchase.

Who is the issuer of your security certificate?

Our web server certificate is issued through GoDaddy.com, and are signed/issued through their intermediate certificate (which is a subordinate certificate issued by the trusted root CA, specifically used to issue and sign end-entity server certificates).

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