Security
We at RingsFromIreland.com, which was previously known as Celtshop, use Realex to handle all payments with credit cards. This means that all credit card transactions are handle on Realex's high security server.

All communication between your pc and Realex's servers are encrypted via certificate based security to ensure your personal and credit card information cannot be read by anybody else while in transit across the internet.

What are certificates?
Certificates, serve as electronic credentials over the Internet for individuals and computer services (Web sites). They are used in the same way as birth certificates, passports or drivers' licenses to validate the identity of individuals for Web site access, communication and electronic commerce.

An individual wishing to send an encrypted message applies for a digital certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA). The CA issues an encrypted digital certificate containing the applicant's public key and a variety of other identification information. The CA makes its own public key readily available through print publicity or perhaps on the Internet.

The recipient of an encrypted message uses the CA's public key to decode the digital certificate attached to the message, verifies it as issued by the CA and then obtains the sender's public key and identification information held within the certificate. With this information, the recipient can send an encrypted reply.

X.509
The X.509 is the most widely used standard for defining digital certificates. The X.509 standard for digital certificates binds the identity of a person or organization to an electronic identification key.

The digital certificate contains information about its owner, its issuer, issue and expiry date stamps, and information for verifying the integrity of the certificate that can be used for digital IDs, digital signatures and "electronic fingerprints".

Netscape, Microsoft, Verisign, Thawte, and ValiCert all use X.509.

Privacy
At RingsFromIreland.com, which was previously known as Celtshop, we take every necessary precaution to protect customers information.

We are committed to protecting your privacy.

We use the information we collect on the site to make shopping at RingsFromIreland.com possible and to enhance your overall shopping experience. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.

RingsFromIreland.com, which was known as previously Celtshop,collects no personally identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals.

In addition, RingsFromIreland.com may place a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information although it will enable RingsFromIreland.com to provide the shopping basket facilities to the user.

No information RingsFromIreland.com collect are disclosed to outside parties, except for the information needed to handle the shipping procedure.

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