How WindyCityParrot.com Process Your Debit Card or PayPal Securely

Last Updated on February 16, 2023 by Mitch Rezman

We use PayPal to process debit and credit cards as well as direct PayPal transactions.

The single most important benefit to both you the customer and us the vendor is that Windy City Parrot does not hold onto any of your credit card information.

That’s how we can ensure there will never be a data breach that would reveal sensitive information other than your name address and the type of bird you own.

We use an SSL security certificate to ensure that when the financial information passes from your computer, tablet or smartphone to our website it cannot be viewed by anyone, will that provides people with the security certificates, needed for enabling HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for their websites.

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and, in short, it’s the standard technology for keeping an internet connection secure and safeguarding any sensitive data that is being sent between two systems, preventing criminals from reading and modifying any information transferred, including potential personal details.

Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its now-deprecated predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communications security over a computer network.

Several versions of the protocols find widespread use in applications such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, and voice over IP (VoIP).

Websites can use TLS to secure all communications between their servers and web browsers.

The TLS protocol aims primarily to provide privacy and data integrity between two or more communicating computer applications.