nVault's all-encompassing security concept uses the latest encryption software combined with tried-and-tested authorization processes. This combination provides nVault members with a high degree of security, while ensuring that our service is as user-friendly as possible. nVault is hosted in a secure data center operated by one of the largest providers of Internet services in the world.

Our security design and implementation involves several security components, including firewalls, authentication, encryption and timed log outs to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information. The design and security infrastructure meets "world-class" standards for information security and enables nVault to accept the risks associated with safekeeping of member information over the Internet.

During the on-line sessions, members are authenticated by using user id's and passwords. Members can ensure that they are actually dealing with nVault, and not a malicious third party that might be intercepting information, by examining a secured page's certificate. You may click on the lock symbol displayed at the bottom of your screen when you establish a secure connection to our service (note that the information page you are reading right now is not part of the secured area of our service.). Our certificate is issued by Verisign; a leading certificate authority and a trusted third party that issues certificates that can be used by individuals or organizations to verify our identity or credentials. Our certificate contains references to our name, public key, an expiration date, a serial number and identifying information about the certificate authority including the digital signature.

The centerpiece in our security implementation is the encryption technology provided by Entrust Technologies - some of the most advanced information security that is commercially available. Very similar to secret code, encryption takes your sensitive data like your password and card numbers and uses complex mathematical equations called algorithms to scramble the information into an unreadable format. The data is also stored in the encrypted form and as a result no one can read the information without having a key to unscramble the information to its original form.

Information security is a core competency of Entrust Technologies, a company created by Nortel Networks and widely regarded as a leader in cryptographic security. Entrust has a suite of established information security products licensed by major information technology companies, including IBM, Lotus, Hewlett-Packard, Tandem/Atalla, Netscape, DEC, etc. Entrust technology is endorsed by the Canadian Federal Government, who are also actively acquiring and implementing Entrust products; as well, Entrust is also being adopted within the US by both government and industry, including financial services organizations.

We are constantly evaluating the latest security technologies and upgrade our systems whenever relevant improvements become available. We are always monitoring our systems to prevent any potential problems that could compromise security or privacy.