Quickpartsdepot takes many precautions to make sure that our customers' personal and financial information is secure. Extensive security measures have been taken to safeguard access to this web site and protect all sensitive exchange of information.  Quickpartsdepot accepts credit cards through highly secured facilities. Brief Security Overview All sensitive data that is transfered from your system to this server is highly encrypted. All sensitive data remains encrypted while being temporarily stored on this server. The data is decrypted only when it reaches our store where it is decrypted and processed.  Technologies used to accomplish this are SSL (Secure Socket Layers), GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) and a well-secured, FreeBSD server (labelled the most secure operating system available). What is SSL? SSL (Secure Socket Layers) secured web site ensures the privacy of information being transferred over the Internet through a process called encryption. Encryption is a procedure whereby information is converted into a unintelligible code that is decoded only upon arrival at the authorized destination. This process is very secure and is the method employed by financial institutions and major e-businesses to conduct online transactions securely.  To check when an SSL connection has been established, look at the status bar at the bottom of your browser to see if it is indicating a secure connection.