Security: Prevention of Fraud & Ethics

TOMS provides an easy, safe, and worry-free shopping experience on their website. In guaranteeing that your order and credit card information are safe and secure, their servers use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an advanced encryption technology that works with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and AOL, and the site's security has been tested and verified by McAfee Secure Sign.

TOMS does not collect any personal information about their customers except when customers specifically and knowingly provide them. Examples of such information are name, shopping and billing addresses, phone number, email address, credit card information and customer preferences data. TOMS does not dell or rent information about their customers and all information provided to TOMS remains absolutely confidential.

Ethics: 

Corporate Responsibility at TOMS provides focus on the environmental and social impacts of their products and operations, responsibly giving and employee life. They offer their shoes in sustainable and vegan materials that include natural hemp, organic cotton, and/or recycled polyester. 

As for their factories overseas in China, Argentina, and Ethiopia, TOMS has hired a global staff for their global supply chain in actively managing and overseeing their suppliers and vendors to ensure that their corporate responsibility standards are upheld. 

TOMS invest in their employees in many ways such as providing training and education. They also provide many benefits as well that include Medical, Vision, Dental, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance and AD&D, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Family Leave, and 401(k).  

Citations:

"TOMS Corporate Responsibility." Corporate Responsibility. TOMS, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. <http://www.toms.com/corporate-responsibility>.

"TOMS Privacy Policy." Privacy Policy. TOMS, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. <http://www.toms.com/privacy-policy>.