Many PokenZoo customers have asked about Poken safety. They ask about whether their personal information is stored on the Poken, how vulnerable it is, and what about their information on the Poken site?

Some quick answers:
1) There is no personal information stored on the Poken. Simply put, all that's stored on your Poken is your Poken ID.

When you start using your Poken, you sign up at http://DoYouPoken.com, enter your social networking and other information, and transfer it to your Poken in the form of a single encrypted ID.

2) So what if I lose my Poken? Can people read my ID and get into my account? First, if you lose your Poken, just log into http://DoYouPoken.com and mark your Poken as lost. When someone tries to put your Poken in their computer, they can't do anything with it because they don't have your login and password. No password, no access. Just like your email account.

3) OK, but I'm putting all my social networking account names, IDs and passwords into http://DoYouPoken.com. That can't possibly be safe. No worries; it's safe. A quote straight from the Poken website:

Rest assured that WE HAVE NEVER AND WILL NEVER STORE YOUR PASSWORD TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. As a convenience to our users, our Web site allows you to connect to external social networks, adding your profile on those networks to your Poken card. To ensure that you are entitled to add those profiles (and that no one else can add your profile), we require that you authenticate yourself with each network that you add. Whenever possible this authentication is accomplished by means of secure methods that allow you to enter your username and password directly on the external network's site. In some cases, however, such methods are not available or we are still in the process of upgrading our Web site to use them. In these cases you enter your username and password for the external network on our Web site, which then sends the information to the external network to validate you. Your password is used one time only to validate you and then discarded.