Security and privacy are important to us and we've taken substantial measures to ensure yours. We do not sell, lease or otherwise make available any customer information. If you check the box saying you want to receive our newsletter, you will receive it (no more than once a month) for as long as the box remains checked, but you will receive nothing else as a result of having signed up for it. You can easily log into your account and change your email preference to unsubscribe at any time.

Our site has the most secure 128 bit encryption and our own secure site certificate through Verisign (click the Verisign logo below to view our secure site certificate). The shopping cart goes into secure mode when you log in, rather than waiting until the payment process begins, as most carts do. Your credit card information is encrypted, transmitted securely to Verisign for authorization of the amount of your order, then your card number is deleted. Authorizing the charge then deleting the card number as we do meets the highest standards of security, for your protection, but because of that, we can't go back and add items to your order at your request. (See Adding to Orders for more on that.)

When paying by credit card, the charge for your order is authorized the instant the order is placed, meaning that the amount of the payment is set aside from your available balance for us, but the payment is not yet sent to us. When your order is packed and ready to ship, we use the transaction ID assigned at the time the order was placed to complete the charge. In this way, we can wait until the day we ship the order to collect your payment without risking your security by storing your credit card number.