128-Bit Encryption
Citibank® uses Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) for secure transmissions. SSL applies encryption
between two communicating applications, such as your PC and our corporate
Internet server. When your data is transmitted over the Internet,
it is encrypted or "scrambled" at the sending end and then decrypted
or "unscrambled" at the receiving end. We use 128-bit encryption,
the highest level generally available today.
Cookie Definition
A cookie is a small piece of information, which is created by a web
server during a user's visit to a web site. If you configure your
web browser to alert you regarding the presence of cookies, you may
receive a notice that a web server wishes to set a cookie. There are
two kinds of cookies — "persistent" and "transient".
Sometimes we use persistent cookies, which remain on the hard drive
of your personal computer. We use persistent cookies for a number
of purposes including to store your preferences for certain kinds
of information, to provide you with access to certain web sites for
which you have previously registered, to retrieve information you
have provided us previously, etc. You can set your browser to disable
cookies or prevent them, or you can delete cookies, which have already
been set by instructing your browser accordingly. To access some information
on our website, you'll have to set your browser to enable cookies.
The persistent cookies used on Citi's credit card web sites are available
only to Citibank or to certain agents of Citibank who are performing
services or hosting specific web sites on our behalf.
We may also use transient cookies, which are not stored on your hard
drive and are not available to anyone other than Citibank. Transient
cookies contain information that identifies you and allows you to
navigate on our site from one page to another without requiring you
to log in again on each page. When you leave our site, or when your
session expires, the transient cookies expire.
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