This encryption has been deemed worthy to be used by the U.S. Government for classified information. You can read more about this encryption at Wikipedia.org by clicking here.

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Highest Standards for Certificate Practices and Physical Security

As the world’s second largest Certificate Authority, GeoTrust provides the highest assurance of trust to all its customers. GeoTrust maintains compliance with WebTrust, a comprehensive third-party auditing process which signifies that GeoTrust meets the highest standards for issuing and managing digital certificates. GeoTrust also leverages the best possible physical infrastructure and network security to maintain customer accounts and certificate data. Our state of the art hosting facilities are fully redundant and hardened data and network operations centers that meet stringent WebTrust standards for physical and network access control. Independent security auditors also carefully scrutinize the physical systems, the software configurations and the processes and procedures used by all GeoTrust personnel.

Your credit card is processed using some of the newest and highest technology that encrypts your data and ensures your safety while shopping online.