Using PayPal

What is PayPal?
PayPal is a company that helps merchants accept payments from customers over the Internet. Using PayPal, you can send us payments from your credit card or checking account. It is safe, secure, and widly used by businesses all over the world.

Benefits of PayPal
The biggest concern people have regarding making purchases on the Internet is security. One of the major benefits of using PayPal is knowing that your credit card information is safe. This is accomplished in the several ways.

• Once you set up a PayPal account, it is not necessary to set it up again the next time you want to make a purchase using PayPal.
  
• PayPal has over 17 million customers worldwide, meaning that the chances of you being victimized by a credit thief is extremely remote.
  
  
• PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information from your computer to theirs using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits, which is the highest level commercially available.
  
  
• Once your information reaches PayPal, it resides on a server that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically. PayPal servers sit behind an electronic firewall and are not directly connected to the Internet, so your private information is available only to authorized computers.
  
  
• PayPal does not share your credit card or bank account information with the merchant, or any other business that uses PayPal for online payments.
  
  
• PayPal is widely accepted on the Internet, as more than 2 million businesses use PayPal to process online payments.