Site secured with VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Encryption
Our entire store is protected and encrypted by VeriSign Extended Validation SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption when handling and personal details. High security browsers and Extended Validation SSL Certificates provide verification with a visual display that gives you confidence and builds trust with Claddagh Lane. When you see the green bar and security verification, you can interact online with confidence. Every necessary precaution has been taken to ensure all information provided to us is safe and secure. Claddagh Lane has been certified by VeriSign as a secure site and a trustworthy company. VeriSign use the most rigorous standards before certifying any company. Unlike many other certifying companies VeriSign ensure a company are who they say they are, they ensure all companies are in operational existence. We want you to feel safe and secure when dealing with us and when conducting business on the internet. The following information has been provided from the VeriSign web site. Please go to www.verisign.com for further clarify or validation.

The Most Recognized Security Mark on the Internet

The design of the VeriSign Secured Seal is recognized as an international sign of trust on the Internet. Over 90,000 domains in 145 countries display the VeriSign Secured Seal. . When you see the VeriSign Secured Seal and verify its authenticity, you can feel confident that your information is protected by VeriSign encryption technology.

The VeriSign Secured Seal is available in 13 different languages and viewed an average of 150 million times each day.

A pop-up window displays full business authentication information when clicked by a visitor.

EV Upgrader™, built into the VeriSign Secured Seal, enables all Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP operating systems to see the visual cues associated with an Extended Validation SSL Certificate.

What the VeriSign Secured Seal Means
The VeriSign Secured Seal means that a connection has been established to a domain secured by a VeriSign SSL Certificate. SSL enables an encrypted communication channel between your Web browser and the Web site server so that you can transfer sensitive information securely. When you send sensitive information, like a credit card number or password, encryption keeps it private.

What the VeriSign Secured Seal Tells You
Every SSL Certificate is created for a particular server in a specific domain. Before submitting personal information (even a log-in and password), you can verify the site's identity by viewing the VeriSign Secured Seal. The VeriSign Secured Seal shows you the site name and certificate owner information authenticated by VeriSign and stored on our servers. If the information does not match or the certificate has expired, you should use another method to establish trust with the Web site you are visiting.

How Encryption Works
Imagine sending mail through the postal system in a clear envelope. Anyone with access to it can see the data. If it looks valuable, they might take it or change it. An SSL Certificate establishes a private communication channel enabling encryption of the data during transmission. Encryption scrambles the data, essentially creating an envelope for message privacy.

Each SSL Certificate consists of a public key and a private key. The public key is used to encrypt information and the private key is used to decipher it. When a Web browser points to a secured domain, a Secure Sockets Layer handshake authenticates the server (Web site) and the client (Web browser). An encryption method is established with a unique session key and secure transmission can begin. True 128-bit SSL Certificates enable every site visitor to experience the strongest SSL encryption available to them.

How Authentication Works
Imagine receiving an envelope with no return address and a form asking for your bank account number. Every VeriSign® SSL Certificate is created for a particular server in a specific domain for a verified business entity. When the SSL handshake occurs, the browser requires authentication information from the server. By clicking the closed padlock in the browser window or certain SSL trust marks (such as the VeriSign Secured® Seal), the Web site visitor sees the authenticated organization name. In high-security browsers, the authenticated organization name is prominently displayed and the address bar turns green when an Extended Validation SSL Certificate is detected. If the information does not match or the certificate has expired, the browser displays an error message or warning.

Why Authentication Matters
Like a passport or a driver’s license, an SSL Certificate is issued by a trusted source, known as the Certificate Authority. Many CAs simply verify the domain name and issue the certificate. VeriSign verifies the existence of your business, the ownership of your domain name, and your authority to apply for the certificate, a higher standard of authentication.

VeriSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates meet the highest standard in the Internet security industry for Web site authentication as required by CA/Browser Forum. EV SSL Certificates give high-security Web browsers information to clearly display a Web site’s organizational identity. The high-security Web browser’s address bar turns green and reveals the name of the organization that owns the SSL Certificate and the SSL Certificate Authority that issued it. Because VeriSign is the most recognized name in online security, VeriSign SSL Certificates with Extended Validation will give Web site visitors an easy and reliable way to establish trust online.

If you wish to learn more about VeriSign or VeriSign certification please visit www.verisign.com the world’s most trusted encryption technology.

Making Payment Online
When processing credit card payments online we use Realex Payments. Realex Payments process billions of euro per annum for merchants domestically and internationally, across a wide range of industries including airlines, mobile carriers, utilities, insurance companies and gaming companies. To inform you and to ensure you that making payment on www.claddaghlane.com we have taken the following information on Realex from their web site. Please visit www.realex.ie for further information.

Realex Security Statement
1. Introduction
Realex Payments respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this web site. Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any external links to other web sites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.

2. Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:

Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, address, email address, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised, and telephone number. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.

Non-Personal Data
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.

3. Purposes for which we hold your Information
Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.

Cookies
The Realex Payments website does not use cookies. Realex Payments does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by using our ‘apply now’ or ‘contact us’ form). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by Realex Payments only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes.
Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes: a) to provide you with information you have requested; b) to contact you if required in connection with your query or to respond to any communications you might send to us; c) to send you the Realex Payments Newsletter or Event Alerts.

4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.

We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil your order (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements. We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.

5. Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.

6. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please contact us. Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.

7. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.