Secure Acrobat online form?

There's a form that I want to offer to people online for them to be able to fill out and send back to me. At least as a short term solution, I do not have the option of setting up a normal online form (html, cgi, etc.), so I want to use pdf files that the users can open in Acrobat Reader. (I'm using Acrobat 9, btw.) Unfortunately, I also need the form info that they type in to be returned to me in a secure fashion.
The problem that I'm running into is that, putting a "Submit" button into the form does not seem to offer a secure option. I know that I have the option to distribute through Acrobat.com, but I'm not actively sending this form to people; I'm making it available to them through my website, and I don't see a way to do that and use Acrobat.com as the return method.
So...is there a way for me to make a pdf form available on my website (using Acrobat 9), that people can then open on their computer, fill out, and send back to me securely?
Thanks very much for anything you know about this.

Thanks for your reply Liam.
That's fine for a login form.
Working on a form that has 6 secure zone options for 3 currencies with recurring and non-recurring payment option for each currency.
The customer would like to try use Google Analytics ecommerce tracking within the thankyou page but I need the invoice ID/order ID and amount to render on the confirmation page.
When going to the standard webform confirmation page, the invoice number is rendered and so can be picked up, however BC is redirecting to the start page for the secure zone that was selected to allow for payment to be processed the way we need.
I've tried various workarounds, One of which would be to substitute the Entity ID and Case ID for order/invoice numbers for tracking purposes and try to pass the amount in the url as a parameter and direct to a thankyou page where I could use {module_url,amount}, {module_url,CID} and {module_url,EID} however the form process redirecting seems to drop my additional parameter of amount.
I'm running out of ideas so if you have any - would love to hear them

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