Privacy Information

Your information is safe with us.  We will only use your e-mail address to send you a confirmation of your order, unless you choose to be placed on our e-mailing list.  We do not track how often you visit our site, what you look at, etc. (see Cookies Information below).

We do not sell or otherwise provide your information to any marketing firm, other businesses, etc. We hate getting telemarketing calls at dinnertime and SPAM e-mail as much as you do.  For our protection, your IP address is logged when you visit our site.  This is the same as *69 on the telephone if you were to call us--we don't know who you are, but we have something to use to find you if you try to hack our site.  Our server statistics also keep cumulative statistics of browser versions, so we know what features we can implement in the future.

Security Information

Our site is secured by a digital certificate from Comodo, a leading provider of internet commerce security.  Their logo is a symbol of your protection in these ways:

1) In order to be granted a digital certificate, we are required to validate our identity. This lets you know you are dealing with a reputable business.

2) The digital certificate encodes the information between your computer and our servers. This protects information such as your address and credit card number from prying eyes. When you see the prefix "https://" in the address bar of your browser, your browser will display an icon (a glowing key in Netscape, a lock in Internet Explorer). When you see this icon, any information transmitted between your browser and our server is encoded so that only we and you can read it. Every time you visit our site, the digital certificate generates a new "key". You never even notice this happens. See the help files of your browser, or GeoTrust's website (www.geotrust.com) for more information on how digital certificates work.

Once your information is stored on our server, it is protected in other ways.  For security reasons, we can't discuss them thoroughly.

Cookies Information

"Cookies" are small bits of information that are stored on your computer. You may have heard bad things about cookies, but they're not all bad.  True, some companies use cookies to track who you are, where you go, and what you do, and sell this information to telemarketing firms.  Some of our large competitors even track how long you spend looking at a particular arrangement, and plan their marketing around the statistics they collect!  However, most cookies have good uses.  If you have a "My Yahoo" or "My Lycos" (or whatever) site, that information is stored in a cookie.  If you've ever ordered anything on-line, chances are, that site used cookies.

Cookies can only be read by the domain (i.e., website) that placed them there--Yahoo's cookies can't be read by Microsoft, we can't read Netscape's, etc.  Some cookies last forever, some disappear as soon as you close your browser.  Again, see your browser's help file for more information about cookies.

Our ordering system relies cookies to function.  It is the most efficient method to keep your order straight and separate from someone else's on our site at the same time.  We do not track who you are, how often you visit, what you look at--none of that.  You can choose to clear all of the cookies once your order is placed.  If you have your browser set to not allow cookies, you may not be able to order from our site.  You should either change this setting while visiting our site, or call us (724-865-9371 or 800-557-9711) when you have your order all worked out.

Thanks for visiting Crighton's Florist and Greenhouse, and we hope you find our site useful.

Questions or comments? Email Us! info@crightonsgreenhouse.com