We use Digital Certificates to protect
the information that you send us. This means that when sending or receiving email,
these can be encrypted to protect the content from prying eyes and can be
digitally signed to authenticate the content. When
using a protected website, the moment you see the padlock In every case, the identity of the owners of certificates that we issue have been verified, subject to a carefully managed and audited process, so you can be sure that the owners of the certificate are who they say they are. If you want to verify the identity of the organisation behind the web site, or the person behind the email address, just click on the padlock to reveal this! To make sure that your browser can work with our digital certificates, the root certificate should be installed. There is no danger in doing this, and no progams will be downloaded to your computer. This only has to be done once in the lifetime of your browser! To be sure it has been done, just follow the simple instructions below: If you have Internet Explorer (Step by step pictorial guidance on this can be found here):
If you have Netscape (Step by step pictorial guidance on this can be found here):
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icon on the bottom of your browser,
the connection is encrypted, and therefore confidential!
You can send over personal information like credit card, birth date, ... and no
intruder will be able to read that information as it transits over the Internet.