Our Guarantee!
We use the most secure technology and systems!
We want you to feel comfortable using your credit card on our site. That is why we absolutely guarantee the safety of your transaction! Our server is 100% secure using the most high tech encryption on the Internet. In the last few years there have been NO cases of credit card fraud when using this technology anywhere in the world!
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If somehow your card is used fraudulently resulting from using it at our site, we will pay the charges for you. The credit card company limits your liability to $50 in most cases. That is the amount we would pay so you owe nothing.
If you believe that your card number was stolen during a transaction with us, please e-mail us at webmaster@bodybuilding.com right away and we will take care of the matter immediately. To date, we have had absolutely no security problems.
Notice: Your credit card number is NOT stored on our web server. We download orders through a secure connection up to 3 times per day, then delete them for good from the web server and store them in a computer that is NOT connected to the Internet. Demand this from any company you do business with online!
INTERNET CREDIT CARD SECURITY
The fastest-growing segment of credit card transactions today are so-called
"card-not-present" transactions where the customer is not physically
present at the merchant's location and simply gives a credit card number
over the telephone. Card-not-present transactions are almost totally
unprotected...the merchant has no idea whether or not you're actually
the legitimate cardholder, and you have no idea whether the minimum-wage
telephone clerk on the other end of the line is keeping private copies
of card numbers.
The other class of transactions where you actually present your card
to the merchant are a bit better protected, but when the merchant swipes
your card through his Verifone terminal and gets an electronic authorization,
the entire contents of the mag stripe (card number, expiration date,
and DES-encrypted checksum) are sent over the phone at 1200 baud in
clear ASCII. So anybody with a $15 tape recorder and a
set of clipleads can easily capture every card swiped at a place of business.
In view of this, sending credit cards over the Internet represents no meaningful incremental increase in exposure. There are 60 trillion bytes of information blasting through the information pipeline every second. In this way you have true security through obscurity.
The form we use is more secure than if you had used your credit
card in a restaurant or given it to the reservations desk at the airport
or over the phone to a hotel. Think of how many hands your credit card goes through in a restaurant-- The waiter, the cashier, the manager, the accountant and whoever sweeps up at night.
How It works...
The Internet connects any computer to any other. Obviously there isn't a single connection from each computer to each of the others, any more than your telephone has a direct connection to every other telephone in the world. The telephone system uses exchanges; the Internet uses special-purpose computers called "routers", whose sole function is to receive packets of data and send them on towards the correct destination.
When a message goes from one computer to another, it is split into fragments which are then passed from router to router until they reach their destination (on a journey across the United States, it is not unusual for 10 routers to be involved).
The routers are owned by the telecommunications companies and Internet service providers, and are physically pretty secure.
It is extemely unlikely that anyone could intercept communications at this level, and
impossible for them to do it without being detected. Remember, each packet of data
spends only a small fraction of a second in transit.
1. The unauthorized person who has your number, but not your card, also needs to have an appropriate ship-to address. They can't buy anything unless they can wait for a package at your address while you are gone. If they can get a seller to ship a purchase to another address, that address becomes a matter of record and can help apprehend them.
2. The credit card company limits your liability, as regulated by law.
What does this all mean to you?
It Is Safe To Order From Bodybuilding.com!
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