The Innovative Traveler: Travel Lost and Found

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McLean, VA----Calling it, "A giant leap forward that now makes all our patented, leading-edge lost and found products affordably available to millions of businesses and consumers across North America," Secure Connections President Barry Stiefel today announced the launch of new, fully transactional website for the company's FINDER division, www.finderproducts.com.

Mr. Stiefel added that, "While many companies tout their products as 'unique,' ours truly are. The patented process at the foundation of all FINDER products combines common telecommunications features and functions, such as speed dialling and direct connection, into a unique system enabling people who find a lost possession, pet or child to immediately and directly contact someone responsible without hassles and time lost to complex technology or to communicating through third party intermediaries, such as call centers or operators."

He added that, "All of our lost and found products work 24/7 anywhere in North America and are safe, secure and reliable. None requires the owner to leave any personal information, and callers never know personal contact information for the people and numbers they call. "What makes our products so unique for owners and so different from traditional lost and found solutions," he said," is the absolute flexibility and security system owners have to make unlimited changes and updates to their information. For example, if the owner of pet FINDER is travelling, he or she can enter any hotel's or pet sitter's number before departing. Upon returning home, he or she can just change those numbers back. It's that easy."

Secure Connections' products include:

o iFound, specially designed to protect valuable, personal possessions, such as cell phones, digital cameras, laptops, luggage and other such items that, while perhaps replaceable themselves, may contain irreplaceable contents.
o Pet FINDER, created to help return to their owners a greater percentage of the more than 6,000,000 pets annually lost in the U.S.
o KidCallAlert, the company's first lost and found product, used by school systems, camps and individual families to quickly and safely reconnect with children accidentally separated from them during school or camp field trips, family outings etc.

The FINDER™ system requires only a few minutes to program or update. An owner dials the toll-free FINDER™ set-up number and enters a secure ID number and PIN located in instructions provided with the tags. Simple voice prompts guide the owner to first record an informational message (for example, in the case of pet FINDER, the pet's name, health issues, vet's name and number, updated travel information, a reward offer, etc.). Then, the owner is prompted to enter up to three contact numbers, where he or a designee can usually be reached (cell, home, office, friend, relative, veterinarian, etc.).

According to Mr. Stiefel, when someone calls into the system and after entering the unique ID number shown on every FINDER tag or label, he or she immediately hears the owner's pre-recorded message and then follows system voice prompts to directly connect to one of the contact numbers programmed into the system. The system is designed to never drop a call, and enables the caller to keep trying the programmed numbers until someone answers or he decides to leave a message."

Mr. Stiefel concluded by noting that Secure Connections is moving to an online activation model for all its Finder Products later this year.

For more information on FINDER™ Products and Secure Connections, contact Barry Stiefel at bsteifel@finderproducts.com, at 866-455-6500 or at 703-752-1510.

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