Privacy & Security

Exquisitecorpseboutique.com uses PayPal as its payment processing company. This assures that your information will be protected when making purchases via our web site. Founded in 1998, PayPal, an eBay company enables any individual with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send payments online.

PayPal's service builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards and utilizes the world's most advanced proprietary fraud prevention systems to create a safe, global, real-time payment solution.

PayPal has quickly become a global leader in online payment solutions with 45 million account members worldwide. Available in 38 countries around the world, buyers and sellers on eBay, online retailers, online businesses, as well as traditional offline businesses are transacting with PayPal.

PayPal offers proven fraud protection and risk management with industry-leading fraud detection tools and techniques. Transactions are processed with PayPal's own secure server, using SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

Using encryption enhances the security of internet payments by decreasing the possibility that a 3rd party could manipulate the data in your button code. When your browser connects to an SSL server, it automatically asks the server for a digital Certificate of Authority (CA). This digital certificate positively authenticates the server's identity to ensure you will not be sending sensitive data to a hacker or imposter site. The browser also makes sure the domain name matches the name on the CA, and that the CA has been generated by a trusted authority and bares a valid digital signature. If all goes well you will not even be aware this handshake has taken place.

Once the handshake is completed, your browser will automatically encrypt all information that you send to the site, before it leaves your computer. Encrypted information is unreadable en route. Once the information arrives at the secure server, it is decrypted using a secret key. If the server sends information back to you, that information is also encrypted at the server's end before being sent. Your browser will decrypt it for you automatically upon arrival, then display it as it normally does.

Another feature of SSL technology is the ability to authenticate data so that an interceder cannot substitute another transmission for the actual transmission without being detected.