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jas SILKS Security Policy

It has been said (and I agree) that using your credit card on the Internet is not as risky as giving it to a waiter at a restaurant, if BASIC SECURITY MEASURES are taken. The greatest potential risk when shopping online is assessing the credibility of the company you are doing business with.

jas SILKS would like to help you to make this assessment, please check jassilks.com with the "Whois jas SILKS" button on the menu bar. Also on the Order Page you will find a section called "SECURITY AND MERCHANT CREDIBILITY." This section gives our customers information and tools to assess our credibility.

jas SILKS goal is to offer the best possible protection for our customer personal information, therefore, we will continue to monitor and constantly improve the security features at our site.

BASIC SECURITY MEASURES TO INCREASE YOUR PRIVACY

Never send your personal information over the Internet unless it is encrypted.

Install a secure PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) email system on your computer www.pgpi.org (FREE). jas SILKS has a PGP public key located at www.jassilks.com/jssKEY.txt . You can also subscribe to a web based secure email system such as www.hushmail.com (FREE) or www.ziplip.com (FREE) or www.lokmail.com (FREE and uses PGP keys for integration with desktop PGP version).

jas SILKS subscribes to secure email at jassilkshushmail.com for the convenience of our customers.

Always ask an online merchant how they access your information from the webserver (some merchants may collect customer information securely but retrieve it via insecure email or insecure FTP).

jas SILKS use the latest SSL encryption technology for collecting and retrieving customer information (name, address, etc.) from the website server.

We want our own information protected and will offer no less to our customers.

Install a Firewall (prevents computer invasions from the Internet) on your computer. Many are available but this one is both FREE and quite effective www.zonelabs.com .

Test your computer for online security www.grc.com ("Test My Shields" and "Probe My Ports").

Test the level of your Browsers encryption at https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html (RC4 cipher, 128-bit key is very good).

Never store your passwords on the computer, write them down and put them in a safe place AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER.

There are other measures you can take to increase your privacy, but, they may cause the performance of your Browser (Netscape (NS), Internet Explorer (IE) to diminished.

These include turning off "Cookies" (NS, IE), Increasing Browser Security level, Disabling "Active X" controls (IE), disabling "Java and Javascript" (NS, IE).

The best scenario here is to learn how to access these controls and toggle them on/off as required. Documentation found in the help files of the Browsers will help you here but FYI:

Netscape Click EDIT /PREFERECES/ADVANCED to access these controls

Internet Explorer Click TOOLS/INTERNET OPTIONS/SECURITY/INTERNET/CUSTOM LEVEL to access these controls (choose prompt option to be warned when these controls are being used).

Keep in mind that Cookies, Java etc. are used legitimately by many reputable website to give you an enhanced Internet Browsing experience, allow ecommerce to remember what you have order as you shop or to access updates, features etc.

These controls are not all malicious, just make sure that the site you allow to access these controls is trustworthy!

Many of these issues are discussed on the Internet ( www.smartcomputing.com "Guide Series: PC Privacy" for example), however, if you have a specific question please send an email to secureinfojassilks.com .

We hope this information will help you to achieve what we all deserve, PRIVACY.

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