B2B
Means Business to Business: this term is used to denote aspects of e-commerce between businesses.

B2C
Means Business to Consumer: this term is used to denote aspects of e-commerce involving relationships between businesses and consumers.

Bit
Is short for "binary digit" which is used to describe the smallest piece of data recognised by computers.

Copyright
Is the right of ownership in literary, artistic and musical works as well as computer programmes, sound recordings, and other original works.

Cookies
Files that track Internet user's preferences for marketing purposes.

Cryptography
The science of developing, analysing and deciphering techniques applied to data for secure communication purposes.

Cybersquatting
The registration of well-known trade marks as domain names with the attempt to sell them back to the trade mark owner.

Data Protection
Issues involving threats to the privacy of individuals.

Digital Signatures
Encrypted signatures to verify and authenticate electronic documents.

Domain name
Is a user's Internet address, such as www.boydslaw.com

Encryption
The process of electronic scrambling or encoding of messages for security purposes.

Firewall
Security Programmes providing a barrier between a private network and the Internet.

Hacker
A person who accesses computer files without authorisation, often destroying vast amounts of data.

HTML
A series of codes imbedded in text and images which appear on web pages.

Hyperlink
By clicking on a hyperlink, users can jump to another web page immediately – conventionally these are text, underlined and highlighted in blue.

IP
Means Intellectual Property, such as Trade Marks, Patents, Copyright etc.

IP Address
IP stands for Internet Protocol. This is the website address, represented by a series of numbers.

ISP
Stands for Internet Service Provider, which provide web users with connection to the Internet.

Meta-tags
HTML code intended to describe the contents of a website.

Patents
Rights in relation to inventions or innovations granting the owner protection against copying or unauthorised use.

Spam
Means unsolicited e-mail.

TLD's
Means top level domain names, such as dot.com., dot.net, and dot.co.uk.

Trade Marks
Symbols, including text, logos, brands, business names and domain names, the rights of which can be obtained either by registration or use.

Trojans
Software programs devised by professional hackers to detect activity on PC's allowing the hacker to assume the user's identity.

URL
Stands for "uniform resource locator" which is the official term for an IP address on the Internet.

Virus
A computer bug which replicates and spreads undetected through computer networks.

Website
A collection of connected web pages, sharing an IP address.

XML
Stands for "extensible mark-up language" which is a more sophisticated version of HTML.

Zip File
A file containing compressed data.