| Nu Hosting provides web hosting and online
shopping cart facilities for customers of Nu Urban Music. Our
server is secure and offers 128 bit encryption, certified by
Thawte, to
guarantee that nobody can eavesdrop on your credit card details
or other personal information. |
| How do I know that my details are being
transmitted securely? |
| When you browse a web page, any secured
pages will be easily distinguishable by 2 features: firstly,
the URL (web address) will begin with https:// (not simply
http://). Secondly, when a secure connection is established,
a 'golden padlock' icon will appear in the bottom right hand
corner of your web browser. |
| In order to use secure connections you
must be using an up-to-date version of Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Netscape
Navigator, Mozilla
or another browser which supports SSL encryption. |
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| What personal details are stored on your
web server? |
| We endeavor only to store details for the
convenience of our customers. Credit card numbers are only stored
for as short a time as necessary for their related transaction
to be processed. |
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| What is the difference between 40 bit
and 128 bit encryption? |
| 128 bit encryption is considerably stronger
than 40 bit encryption (each "bit" doubles the strength of the
encryption, therefore 128 bit encryption is 2^88 times
stronger than 40 bit). |
| Until approximately the beginning of 2002,
40 bit encryption was the only kind that products made for export
from the United States were allowed to use. This has since changed
to 128 bit as the United States government has acknowledged
that 40 bit encryption is "too weak" for use with real sensitive
data. |
| We recommend that all of our customers
try and use 128 bit encryption, although our server will support
40 bit if it is all you have access too. Upgrades to improve
encyption strength are available for all older browsers from
the manufacturers websites. |
