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Encryption
Backgrounds USA
takes every precaution to protect our user's information. When users
submit sensitive information via the website, your information is
protected both online and off-line by 128 bit encryption and a
Verisign or Entrust Certificate displayed at the bottom of
every secure page. An example of the Entrust logo is shown at the bottom
left of this page.
We take your background screening order through an online ordering system.
The system is secure and all connections are encrypted using a
state-of-the-art 128 bit encryption process. After you click on any of
the Order NOW links that are to be found throughout the site, you
will be linked to our system using the 128 bit encrypted link. You can
check the security of the link by looking at the address bar, where the
URL (web page address) will be prefixed by "https://" (https: stands for
a secure link rather than the standard http: prefix), or at the bottom
of your browser, where you will see a padlock symbol. If the padlock is
"closed" then the link is secure. And the padlock symbol will look like
this: 
When the Backgrounds USA
registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such
as credit card number and/or social security number), that information
is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the
industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the
lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or
open, when you are just surfing.
Internal Policies
While Backgrounds USA uses SSL
encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do
everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of
our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted in our offices. Only Backgrounds USA employees who
need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing
clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL Backgrounds USA
employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or
reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do
to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers
that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a
secure locked environment.
Cookies
A cookie is a
piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information
about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their
browser, the cookie simply terminates. This site uses cookies during
the order and credit card authentication process to ensure the accuracy
and security of the online order. These cookies are used exclusively to
provide security and are not used to gather information about users. We
do not share information about our users with other sites. If a user
rejects the cookie, there may be problems with their usage of our site
because we would have no way of validating the user.
Log Files
We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement
through the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information. We do not store or obtain any information from the log
files that may be used to identify a user of the web site. IP numbers
and the associated domain names can be identified geographically from
the domain extensions (for example, .uk = United Kingdom, de = Germany,
fr = France, au = Australia, nz = New Zealand) but beyond this wide
regional information the actual identity of the user is not revealed in
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