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Yes. Yahoo! Shopping uses secure servers to protect your
personal information, including your name, address, and credit card
information. We use the Stronghold secure server, currently the second-best
selling secure server software and, in our opinion, the best product
technically. It supports industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption.
When you enter your credit card number into the order form, it is
transmitted across the Internet in an encrypted (scrambled) form and not
decoded until we receive it. For added security, we also encrypt the credit
card number when it is stored on disk and when we forward it to the
merchant.
Shopping online is considered fairly low-risk. According to CNN, "The
prevalent opinion... is that online credit card use is actually no riskier
for consumers than traditional 'low-tech' transactions." You should feel as
safe as you would using a credit card in a store or restaurant, if not more
so.
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