Your website must provide a safe and secure platform for your potential customers to engage with. Secure Sockets Layer or SSL encrypts data transmitted from your website so that you can protect the personal and financial information of your customers. By using SSL, you can ensure that your website establishes secure communication and prevents sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands.
All data communicated between browsers, servers or devices can be accessed by a third party if you don’t have the appropriate website security measures in place. By using SSL, an encryption protects the transmission of data from being intercepted and ensures that it is delivered without a hitch. The URL of a website is a simple way to check its security. Secure websites are given a HTTPS address (the ‘s’ stands for secure) and those that are not secured have a standard HTTP address. With SSL, your HTTPS address can show customers that your website will manage their information safely.
Despite SSL being a component of website security, it has also become essential to an effective SEO optimisation. To reduce instances of cybercrime, Google has announced a deadline in early July for SSL use, when Google Chrome will start labelling all non-HTTPS websites as ‘not secure’. Google claims that non-HTTPS websites will not be penalised by these new updates to the ranking algorithm, however, a ‘not secure’can increase your bounce rate which will have a negative impact on your ranking. By meeting the upcoming SSL deadlines for Google Chrome, you can make sure that your website protects your customer data and prevents your ranking from falling.
We want to help you secure your website in time for these big changes. At FX Web Studio we are offering complementary SSL services to all websites hosted with us. We are committed to helping your business provide a secure and trusted platform for your customers. To find out more about how the team at FX Web Studio can update your website security, give us a call on 1300 090 401.
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Our privacy policy contains information about collecting users’ personal details, processing clients’ information and data used to promote the products and services offered by FX Web Studio. We respect the right to privacy of our clients and therefore, we are committed to adhering to Australian privacy legislation and upholding the Australian principles of privacy.
At different points on our website, we may ask you for personal information including the email address you nominate, your name or phone number. We use this information to respond to your website requests, including website enquiries and information pack requests. We will only communicate with you using the email address or phone number you have provided.
We do not share your personal information with other companies.
We do not ask you for, access or track any location based information from your mobile device at any time while you are visiting our website.
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This includes your IP address, browser type, entry/exit points, operating system and date/time stamp. This information does not identify individual users.
We use this information to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movements around the site and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
Your browser may store ‘cookies’ while using our website. These are pieces of information sent by the server, stored on your computer to make it easier for users to log onto our services. We do not link information we store in cookies to any personal data you submit while using our website.
If you provide us with your email address, we will automatically add it to our mailing list. We will only send you information that we feel would be beneficial to you and your business. You may opt out but clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this statement. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time.