Chelsea Lodge Suites - New York City

Consider how many ways your credit card
number can easily get stolen:

          1. You eat at a restaurant and give the waiter your card. Waiter goes to the cash
               register, AND WRITES DOWN YOUR NUMBER ON PAPER and takes home.
               Then free to use.

2. You buy a product at a store. You charge it and leave. The cashier WRITES
DOWN YOUR NUMBER ON PAPER and takes home.

          3. You place an order on the phone with your credit card. You give the number to the
               person (that you don't know who-where they are) and charge it. After you hang up,
               they WRITE DOWN YOUR NUMBER ON PAPER and take home. Further,
               your phone conversations on portable phones are easily heard by your neighbors.

4. In all of these scenario's, your card is swiped through the zon and the numbers are
transmitted OVER THE INTERNET on a PHONE LINE Conneted by MODEM.

5. Your credit card statements are in your mailbox and trash can. Are they secure?

Technical Background for Internet Ordering.

          When your online order is submitted by a form or email, it is broken up into little
          bits   of     information and all bits are sent over different routes and end up at the
          destination where they are reassembled at the vendors server. This is much safer.

          Legal Protections:
          1. Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, your bank can not hold you liable for more than
               $50.00 of fraudulent charges.
          2. In the event of unauthorized use of your credit card, you must notify your credit
              card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures.

Still don't want to use your credit card on the Internet? No problem.
You may E-mail us with your return number or call us direct
(212) 243-4499 or (800) 373-1116