Security Information
Ordering from MagicGalleries.com is Safe and Easy!
The security of your Billing Information is protected with a state of the art 128 bit SSL Encryption Certificate.
Secure Sockets Layer, an advanced data encryption system used to ensure the security and confidentiality of information exchanged between your browser and PayPal Payment Remittance Processing e-commerce servers. All of your personal information (including credit card numbers) will be encrypted and then transmitted from your browser to the PayPal e-commerce systems securely. This information can only be unencrypted by PayPal. For more information on secure transactions, please read our Security FAQs.
We can only guarantee secure transactions with orders placed directly from our website using our secure online ordering system. We cannot guarantee secure transactions for orders sent to us via email.
Safe Shopping Guarantee
We guarantee that shopping with MagicGalleries.com will be safe and secure. This means that you will not be responsible for any unauthorized charges made to your credit card stemming from purchases you have made with MagicGalleries.com.
U.S. federal regulations provide for a limit on the liability of each credit card holder for fraudulent charges. This limit is currently $50.00. Should fraudulent charges be applied to your card through no fault of your own while interacting with MagicGalleries.com’s and the PayPal.com secure commerce facilities, and your bank holds you responsible for the $50.00 maximum, you will be covered for the entire amount up to the full $50.00.
Security FAQs
How can I send my credit card number over the Internet securely?
One problem with communicating sensitive information over the Internet is that almost every connection between two computers over a network involves many intermediate steps. These steps involve a chain of computers that successively receive and forward information until the information reaches its proper destination. This process, called routing, is fundamental to all Internet communication, and any computer in the routing chain has complete access to all the data it receives. This routing process makes it possible for the unscrupulous to intercept your private messages, steal your credit card numbers, or illegally obtain confidential or proprietary information.
However, the MagicGalleries.com and PayPal.com shopping system uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol for secure data transmission over the Internet, thereby preventing the unscrupulous from intercepting your data. SSL, which is the leading data encryption system, scrambles any data sent from your computer to the PayPal server in such a way that PayPal’s server - and only their server - can unscramble the information when your data is received. Because of SSL, intermediary computers involved in routing the information see only gibberish that they can’t decipher.
What is SSL encryption?
SSL Encryption is the industry standard for insuring privacy between a web browser communication and a remote web site running under SSL Encryption. The SSL technology provides unbreakable encryption with any data transmitted between your Browser and the Web Site’s SSL Encryption Certificate protected server.
Your Billing Information, including credit card numbers, is transmitted and received using SSL encryption, preventing any unauthorized or unscrupulous persons from prying into the transmission. The transmission is readable only by PayPal Payment Processing web site.
A traditional encryption system, called a secret-key system, uses a single large number called a key both to scramble (encrypt) and unscramble (decrypt) messages. Secret-key encryption systems are very fast, but they rely on one party communicating the secret key to another party, often by way of a third party such as a courier, before the two parties can exchange encrypted messages. This makes keys vulnerable to theft or tampering while in transit.
The PayPal.com systems does not use a traditional encryption system. Instead, MagicGalleries.com and PayPal.com uses a form of encryption called "public-key encryption," which ensures the privacy of your credit card and other personal information.
How is public-key encryption different from traditional encryption?
Public-key encryption is used by SSL to encrypt and decrypt transmitted data. Unlike secret-key encryption systems, a public-key system uses pairs of keys (key pairs). One key, called the public-key, is used to encrypt messages, while the other, called the private-key, is used to decrypt messages. The two keys are large numbers that are related mathematically in such a way that it takes a very long time to calculate the private-key from the public-key.
When you want to send PayPal.com an encrypted message, your browser must look up our public-key in securely maintained directories. The browser then uses public-key to encrypt the message, and sends PayPal the encrypted message. Only their private-key can decrypt the message sent from you.
Because public-key encryption is much slower than secret-key encryption, SSL uses it only when your browser first connects to the PayPal.com site to exchange a secret-key called a session key, which both your browser and their server use to encrypt and decrypt transmitted data.
How Can I Tell The Connection Is Secure?
Look for the
SSL Secure Lock Icon to be displayed on your browser. Click or double click on the SSL Lock Icon and your browser will display more detailed information regarding the particular
SSL connection and the SSL Certificate that a Web Site or Online Payment Processor is Providing.
If there are problems with the SSL connection your browser will usually display a warning box and / or the SSL Lock Icon will be absent or show a broken link. The
SSL Certificate is a verifiable way to insure the web site you are visiting is a legitimately registered business with one of the certifying authorities.
Assurance:
Always make sure your Browser Address Bar (url, location) shows
HTTPS://some.site.com. The "
S" is the secure protocol, and the regularly used HTTP (without the "S") is simply a standard (non encrypted) connection between your browser and the web site you are visiting. The Opera example below shows the correct HTTPS address prefix, which means the browser is requesting an SSL Secure Connection to the web site.
