PAYMENT SECURITY

Raymond Jewelers realizes how important security is to you, so we've taken a number of steps that help enhance the safety and confidentiality of transmissions of private information sent from Raymond Jewelers over the Internet.

Today most online ordering is secure, provided that your browser can support secure transactions. You can tell that you are in a secure environment when the key at the bottom left of the page is complete or lock is closed. When the key is complete (or lock closed), all information exchanged is encrypted and cannot be accessed by anyone else. The key or lock appears on the page where you start to type in your personal info. It is not visable on the shopping cart page.

To ensure safety and confidentiality, we utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, the industry standard for transferring sensitive information over the Internet. When you enter your credit card information online, it is encrypted so others cannot access it. Whenever we ask you to send confidential information over the Internet, including personal account data, we require that a "secure session" using SSL first be established.

It works as follows: SSL technology secretly encodes information as it is being sent over the Internet between your computer and Raymond Jewelers helping to ensure that the information remains confidential. The use of SSL requires two components: an SSL-compatible browser and a web server at Raymond Jewelers to perform the data exchange that establishes an SSL connection.

Examples of SSL browsers include Netscape 2.0 and later versions, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 2.0 and later versions, and the Web browser for America Online version 3.0 for Windows. (Note that some older versions of browsers will not support SSL sessions).

Additionally, our VeriSign Digital ID ensures data integrity, as it is used as a key to encrypt the information before transfer. Look for the "https://" in the URL of order form pages. This is the confirmation that you are using a secure web site.