Privacy Policy
Online Privacy Statement

It is company policy of eMembersOnly, Inc. to respect rights to privacy online of our members, merchants, and customers. Detailed personal information is held in strictest confidence.

Requesting Information

eMembersOnly, Inc. (Company) will sometimes request personal information from our members, merchants, and customers such as name, address, email address, and other details. Providing us your information will simply help us offer products and services that our company believes you might care to know about. When you choose to give personal information to Company over the Internet that Company or our business partners may request, we will endeavor to inform you how that particular information will be used. As we request personal information for any reason, we will provide a link to this policy statement to make our intentions clear.

Personal Information Privacy

Company will take all appropriate steps to keep any and all personal information confidential. Those steps include limiting access to members, merchants, and customer information databases, communicating this policy statement to all our employees, and establishing and enforcing penalties for violating this statement.

Company will not sell, rent, or give away personal information obtained from members, merchants, and customers to other companies for use in selling others' products or services. In the event Company contracts with another company to market or advertise products or services for us, we will insist on binding agreements from those companies protecting personal information. We will vigorously enforce all privacy agreements we hold with other companies.

Company gathers personal information from our members, merchants, and customers in order to better develop our relationships with those members, merchants, and customers. Occasionally, Company seeks comments on our products and services from our members, merchants, and customers that allow us to determine those products and services they should be made aware of, based on their specific needs.

Company will communicate with members, merchants, and customers via email or other online delivery devices only if they agree to receive those communications. Members, merchants, and customers who believe they are receiving our communications in error or no longer desire to receive them, should inform us of such, and we will remove those names from our mailing lists. Company will be judicious in the use of email and paper mail to communicate with members, merchants, and customers. Company will endeavor, at all times, to treat them as we, ourselves, would care to be treated with respect to receiving such mail items.

Order Information Privacy and Credit Card Security

How SSL Encryption Works

eMembersOnly, Inc. uses the industry standard security protocol Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encode sensitive information, such as your credit card number, that passes between you and our company. SSL works by creating a temporary, shared "key" (as a digital code book) that allows only the computers on either end of a transmission scramble and unscramble information. To any outside party between the sender and the receiver, including all the servers that may relay the message, the SSL transmission is read as indecipherable gibberish.

eMembersOnly, Inc. believes SSL makes ordering online as secure as using your credit cards anywhere. In fact, after thousands of online transactions worth millions of dollars, not one of our clients has ever reported misappropriation of a credit card number protected by SSL technology.

Exchanging "Hello's"

At the point your browser lands on a secure Web page, the server hosting the secure site sends a "hello request" to the browser. The browser replies with a "client hello." In networked environments (and the Web is the granddaddy of all networked environments), individual PCs are often called "clients." The server, ever the polite one, responds with a "server hello."

Exchanging all these "hello's" allows your browser and the Web page to determine the encryption and compression standards they both support. They also exchange a "session ID," a unique identifier for that specific interaction. Once they have greeted each other, the browser asks for the server's "digital certificate." This is the online commerce version of saying, "May I see some ID, please?"

A Digital Certificate

Online companies obtain digital certificates from a Certificate Authority, such as RSA Data Security, Inc. or VeriSign, Inc. A Certificate Authority verifies a company's identification and then issues a unique certificate as proof of identity.

Sharing the Key

Once your browser and our server have shaken hands and your browser has checked our digital certificate, your browser uses information in our digital certificate to encrypt a message back to us that only our server understands. Using that information, the browser and the server create a "master key." This master key is like a codebook that both sides can use to encode and decode transmissions. Only your browser and our server share that master key and it is good for only that session. Using the unique shared key, your browser and our server can exchange sensitive information such as your credit card number, in a way third parties are not able to understand.

At the point you exit a secure site, the master keys you once held in common become useless, since they are good for only one session. When you go back to the secure site again, your computer and the server will go through the entire process again and create another master key.

Is it Safe?

The legal department prefers us to not speak in absolutes, but SSL makes your online purchases extremely safe. The way to break an SSL encryption is with brute force by intercepting the encrypted message containing your credit card number, recording it, and then using a computer to try every possible combination until the master key is cracked. To combat even that approach, most keys range from 40 to 1,024 digits long (each digit is either a "1" or a "0"). As the digits in the key grow in number, the number of possible combinations reaches into the trillions. Therefore, the longer the key increases in numbers, the more secure it becomes. We believe strongly in the safety of SSL. Encryption technology continues to evolve; therefore, we will continuously review ways to improve security, including new, even more "bulletproof" encryption methods.

Copyright 2008 eMembersOnly, Inc. All rights reserved. eMembersOnly reserves the right to amend this privacy policy as necessary.