eBuildingPermits.com - uses a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) online encryption certificate process to protect online users...

Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) 

using the secure email Subscritpion web page...

Introduction...
eBuidingPermits uses the highest industry standard security protocol - Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - to encode sensitive information (personal information) that passes between you and our companies secure web page.

SSL works by creating a temporary, shared "key" (sort of a digital code book) that lets only the computers on either end of a transmission scramble and unscramble the information. To anyone between the sender and the receiver, including all the in between servers that may relay the message, the SSL transmission is indecipherable. No eBuildingPermits' customer has ever reported misuse of information protected by our deployed SSL technology.

In Detail, here is how the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) process works...

Exchanging "Hellos"...
When your browser opens a secure Web page (web address begins with https://), the server that is hosting the Secure Site sends a "hello request" to your browser. The browser then replies with a "client hello" response. In networked environments like the World Wide Web, individual PCs are named"clients." The server responds back with a "server hello." Exchanging all these "hellos" lets your browser and the server's Web page determine the encryption and compression standards that they both can support. They also exchange a "session ID" - a unique identifier for that session's specific interaction. Once they have greeted each other, the browser asks for the server's "digital certificate" - it's the on-line e-commerce way of saying "Can I see your ID, please?"

Your ID - The Digital Certificate...
On-line companies get digital certificates from a Certificate Authority, like RSA Data Security, VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte, Baltimore and EntrustA. The Certificate Authority verifies a company's identification, and then issues to them a unique certificate ID as identity proof.

Sharing the Key...
After your browser and our secure server provider have ' shaken hands', and after your browser has checked our digital certificate for authenticity, then your browser uses information in our unique digital certificate to encrypt a message back to us that only our secure server can understand. 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's good for ONLY that individual session. Using this unique, shared key, your browser and our secure server can exchange sensitive information and no third parties can't decipher or intercept it. When you surf off a secure site page, the master keys you once held in common become useless, since they are good for one session only. When you go back to that secure site page again, your computer and the secure server will again go through the whole process of creating a new and different unique "master key" for that new session.

Knowing When You are on a Secure Site...
You can tell when you're on a secure site by looking at the drawing of a padlock or key somewhere along the bottom of your browser's window (Internet Explorer uses the padlock image; Netscape uses the key image). If the key image is 'unbroken', or the lock image is 'closed', and the image is ' golden' or 'glowing', that means you're connected under the cloak of SSL security. Most browsers can also be set to alert you when you 'enter' and 'leave' a secure website.

Is it Safe...
SSL does make your on-line transmission of personal information extremely safe. The Internet industry believes strongly in the safety of SSL technology. The Federal Government and all of the Fortune 500 Companies use this technology to protect confidential customer information. And as encryption technology continues to evolve, eBuildingPermits will continue to incorporat the newest, even more bulletproof, encryption methods.

AND..... We only Collect Credit Card info by Phone...
Finally, we only accept simple name-address-city-state, etc information on the email subscription form - no financial information. After you click the submit button you will get a success page which also supplies you with a unique subscription referral number... then we follow up with a phone call (to the number you provided us with) to get your credit card information. During the phone call you can verify us with the provided subscription referral number... it doesn't get much more secure than that...

eBuildingPermits
451 DelaVina Ave - Suite 407
Monterey, CA.   93940