We provide this free financial resource to visitors of the Community Room of SeniorSSuperStoreS in an effort to keep baby boomers, seniors and the elderly informed of matters that can affect their lifestyle.

Did you know that it's safer to use your credit card on many web sites, SeniorSSuperStoreS.com included, than it is to hand your card to a waiter in a restaurant?

Just think about it. When you give your credit card to a waiter, the card is taken to a computer terminal out of your sight, and it may be handled by more than one individual. Who knows if one of these people has one of those handy pocket card scanners. Those devices, when your card is swiped through it, can store your name, card number, and card expiration date. When that stored data is downloaded to another computer, your credit is at considerable risk.

On the other hand, when you use a secure web site, such as SeniorSSuperStoreS.com, your card information is scrambled so nothing or no one can read it except the descrambler on the other end. This is called "encryption". And strong encryption is like scrambling an egg, mixing it in a 55 gallon drum of water, then putting it back together again.

Actually, no individual sees your credit card number; it passes between your computer and ours and on to the credit card processing company, which forwards the data on to your bank. All of the transactions are scrambled, and your credit card information is not stored by anyone in this process, except your bank, of course.

When you bring up an order page, it should begin with "https" and not just "http". And the padlock symbol on your browser window should be locked.

Test this. When you get to a secure order page, double click on the padlock in your browser's status bar at the bottom. It'll open an interesting window of information about the security of the web site you're visiting.

You can safely order any of our products with complete confidence. Our secure ordering system, expensive to set up and maintain, certainly protects you better than that restaurant and waiter!