Security Policy

Security

We carry the  Trust Guard Seal (security scanned daily )and  the
GeoTrust Seal as well, for your protection.
 Your info is safe with us! Guaranteed and Certified.

You can shop at [WWW.gardenponds.com.] online with confidence.
We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996,
to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information
through the credit card and electronic check processing networks 
The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:
128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and
security protocols to protect customer information.

Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

We  also carry the Trust guard Security Scanned daily seal  and the GeoTrust seal.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data,
please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy [link to http://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/ ].

If you prefer, we can process your transaction by phone, fax or mail. Call us at [518-261-0149]
during our business hours [Monday-Friday from 9:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST ],
for mail your order to our address which can be found at the top of any page.

[www.gardenponds.com.] is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

We use Authorize. net for our Real-Time Credit Card processing and our Virtual terminal.
Our system is configured to utilize the following:

A.) AVS  The Address Verification Service (AVS) is a system designed to aid in the detection
of suspicious transaction activity. For a transaction, AVS matches your billing address information provided
by you (  the cardholder) with your billing address on file at the credit card issuing bank.
The processing network then sends an AVS response code indicating the results
of the match to the payment gateway.Without a match we will not process your order.

B.) CVV Card Code Verification, or CCV, is a payment gateway feature that
verifies the card code submitted by you  ( the customer) with the card-issuing bank.
Transactions with card codes that do not match are rejected by thepayment gateway according to the
settings configured by the merchant.  If you CVV does not match we will not process your order.
Under new laws recently enacted your  CVV code is purged once your transaction has been processed.