Dearborn Classics website features secure online ordering. We have taken all precautions to insure your protection and security on all credit card purchases. Below is some information about our certification for secure processing.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol first designed by Netscape. It specifies a platform and application independent way of establishing and using a secure internet line. What this means is that it doesn't matter where the protocol is implemented (on UNIX, Windows 95, or MacOS), the same implementation is used. This is ideal for many reasons, the main one being interoperability. For example, people using different programs, on different Operating Systems, can communicate freely. There is also no charge for implementing it, which encourages its free use by the software community.

SSL Certificates hold information about what web-servers. They contain information about the owners of the certificates, the server to which the certificate was sold, when it was sold and when it expires. They facilitate the secure transmission of information and the authentication (identification) process.

When you connect to a secure web server such as https://www.dearbornclassics.com you ask that server to authenticate itself. This authentication is quite a complex process involving public keys, private keys and a digital certificate. The certificate tells you that an independent third party has agreed that the server belongs to the company it claims to belong to. A valid certificate means that you can have confidence that you are sending information to the right place.