Security

At Accepta we take security very seriously, we use one of the strongest available security systems to protect your communications with us. When you register for a business account or purchase products online through www.accepta.com your data is automatically protected using something called a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) between your computer and ours. SSL works in the following ways:

It prevents impersonation - you can tell that you are using a genuine SSL site by the padlock symbol at the bottom of the screen.*

It encrypts data - as soon as your computer has recognised our computer they encrypt all information that is passed between them. Data encryption means that no one else can read or change your information as it travels over the Internet.

It prevents scrambling - SSL uses a Message Authentication Code (MAC) to prevent anyone tampering with our Internet site. Your computer will always check this code before it takes a message from us. This means that if anyone tried to interfere with a message, your computer would not recognise the code and would alert you.

*There are two minor problems with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Neither problem has any effect on the actual security in force, but may make it appear to you as if it is not fully secure.

Internet Explorer 4 - The padlock symbol does not always appear at the bottom when it should. A full description of this error, number Q15462, is at:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q154/6/21.asp

Internet Explorer 5 - If you click on the padlock symbol to view the security certificate the following message may be displayed: "This certificate has failed to verify for all of its intended purposes". The other details of the certificate shown are correct. A full description of this error, \ Q233479, is at:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q233/4/79.asp.

Privacy

We know privacy is important to you and so we promise to respect your personal information. Our aim is to be as clear and open as possible about what we do and why we do it.

Our commitment to you on privacy issues goes beyond complying with the Data Protection Act legislation. We pledge that your information will be:

Controllable - To change business credit account information you should contact us and we will make the changes for you.

Private - We will not use your details to contact you unless you want us to. Again, you can go on-line at any time to tell us whether or not you want to be contacted.

We will never give or sell your information to third parties for their own use and we will ensure that anyone working for us treats any information, which they use with the same care that we treat it ourselves.

Secure - Information about you will be kept safe and secure.

Necessary - We only collect information that we can use to improve our service to you.

Do we use cookies?

When you login to our site we may send your computer a cookie - this is just a small piece of information containing your customer ID and user name which is stored on your PC hard drive. Our cookies do not hold any personal or confidential information about you and they are not used outside of www.accepta.com. When you come back to our site the cookie allows us to greet you personally and speed up the login process. It also helps us monitor what parts of the site you visit so that we can keep improving it, making it quicker to get to the parts that our customers want to get to.

We may also use a second cookie to help us keep a record of the order in which you visit our pages. We use this information to improve the site, so that you can get to the places you want to go in the fastest possible time.

You can refuse to accept both cookies at any time by turning cookies off on your browser.

How to turn cookies off?

If you use Netscape Communicator: select 'Edit' from the main menu. Then choose 'Preferences' and 'Advanced' to see your options. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer: select 'Tools' from the main menu. Then 'Internet Options', 'Security', 'Custom Level' and 'Cookies' to see your options. If you do refuse cookies, then we will not be able to do the things that we've described, but you will still have no problems using the site and shopping with us safely and privately.

Your Consent

By using www.accepta.com, you consent to the collection and use of information as outlined above. We continually review our privacy policy and reserve the right to make changes; all changes will be posted on this web site. We also work to secure all information at all times; however, by using accepta.com, you are voluntarily transmitting information to us, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of the information.

We welcome any comments you may have on this policy, please send them to: comment@accepta.com.