That is the reason that most of us have had it pounded into us to never discard credit card receipts where others can find them and get the information off them. A secure link means that the information that we give the company is transmitted over the Internet in an encrypted form which makes it extremely unlikely that anyone will be able to intercept and read it, much more unlikely than that similar information could be stolen from the U.S. Mail. It is only readable by the accounting department of the company from which we are ordering. If you are a real privacy nut then there is little that I can say that will change your mind. If you have only a few nagging doubts about privacy on the Internet then you may be interested in what follows.
Cookies are ever present on the Web.
Browser makers recognize that many people are uncomfortable with the fact that Web sites that you visit may write small data files to your hard disk and they give you the option to refuse all cookies or to be asked to confirm acceptance of an attempt to write a cookie to your disk. The confirmation option sounds good at first but you ll soon find that it is a major inconvenience to have to respond to every attempt to write cookies. In practice, you will choose either to never accept cookies or to always accept cookies. Cookies contain information about you and your preferences. For example, if you inquire about a flight schedule at an airline s Web site, the site might create a cookie that contains your itinerary.