Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement
Your email address will never be shared with or sold to anyone.

We will never sell, share, or give your information to anyone else without your permission.

At Peko, we have a firm commitment to your security and privacy.
If you have any questions about this store, how we process your credit card,
or ship the products, please contact us by e-mail or call 1-250-868-1469

About Security (About Online Security)

Many writers and analysts, both on the Web and in the more traditional media, think that security concerns
might prevent Internet E-Commerce from succeeding, but E-Commerce is already more secure than most
traditional business transactions. The problem lies in the perception of security problems on the Internet.

Is Online ordering really safe? By Scott Radin
online shopping consultant to Channel 2 News, Buffalo, NY. Click Here

PayPal keeps your bank and credit card details private from sellers.
When you pay through PayPal, your credit card and the bank numbers are never seen by a seller or merchant.
Your financial information stays private and safe.
Plus, you’re protected 100% against unauthorized payments sent from your account.

Traditional Security
When you phone or fax in a credit card order to a traditional mail-order business, nothing in particular guarantees the security of your information. The fax machine at the other end could be in an open office where anyone could grab your transmission and use the numbers. The operator could write your credit card data on a slip of paper that could be taken the same way. When you give your card to your server in a restaurant, you can't be sure what happens to the information while it's out of your sight.
Yet people perceive these kinds of transactions as safe because they've been around for years, and in that time we've discovered that most people don't get ripped off. We trust that nothing untoward will be done with our sensitive credit card numbers. With good reason, too: any business that regularly let its customers' credit cards be defrauded wouldn't have those customers for long.

When you are shopping online it is first important that you determine if an order is going to be processed with a secure method of data transfer. Second it is important that the web site clearly outlines their "Security and Privacy" policy. Lastly, and I emphasize this point, the site should clearly reflect their location, phone number, and email address.

Thus, when you are shopping on a site, the following steps are recommend.

1. Even before shopping, attempt to locate their contact information.
If you do not find a location, phone number, and email address,
then move on to a new web site. Don't mistake a P.O. Box as an address!

2. If the contact information is found, then look for a "Privacy" or "Security and Privacy" statement. If found; take a couple of minutes to read it and make sure you can live with its terms. If not you will find that your personal information may be shared or sold…legally. If you can't find such a statement or you don't agree with the terms of said statement, then move on to a new web site.

Web Security
A few years ago, Web browser makers realized that if commerce were ever to become serious business on the Internet, they would have to address security concerns as well. The major browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, have included secure socket layer (SSL) technology since their 3.0 versions, and many other browsers such as Opera do as well.
The SSL technology implemented in many "shopping cart" style sites uses an electronic identity certificate, for which E-Commerce merchants apply through a certificate service.
The certificate acts as a "signature" to verify that a secure Web server is from the company it claims to be. Customers' names, addresses,
and credit card numbers are processed by complex mathematical encryption algorithms to ensure that only the authorized server to which they are connected can decode the information. You can tell when you are making a secure Web transaction by the Web address, which is preceded by https:// instead of just http://, and by the appearance of a secure solid key or closed padlock icon in the lower corner of your Secure browsers window.
The "strong encryption" versions of the major Web browsers are so secure, in fact, that the United States government classifies their encryption technology as a munition, like guns and explosives, and restricts the strong-encryption browsers from being exported outside the U.S.A. and Canada. (The regular encryption browsers available elsewhere in the world are extremely secure too-just not secure enough to be considered a weapon!)

E-mail Security
The truth is that sending credit card information by E-mail as plain text, without any encoding at all, is more secure than most traditional credit card transactions. Although it's possible for someone to intercept the credit card numbers as they get routed through the Internet to their destination, it is more difficult than snooping on cellular telephone calls, for instance.
If you separate your credit card numbers into two individual E-mail messages, one half in each, snooping is even harder, since the Internet is designed in such a way that two E-mails are likely to reach their target by entirely different routes-and anyone trying to intercept them wouldn't be able to get both parts.