Security of your on-line transaction is paramount at SportTouringcycle.com. All transactions are taken over a secure server connection by Paypal. For the final checkout you will taken to a secure Paypal payment submission page (please note the https: address which indicates that your transaction is being conducted by a secure server) This means that your information is not accessible to everyone else. All transactions are fully encrypted. Encryption is a process of "scrambling" a message into meaningless characters and numbers, and decrypting is the process of "unscrambling" these messages. Only people with the "Key" to the encryption are allowed to decrypt the information. Only Paypal has this key. Customers on a global scale can shop privately, confidently and securely.