Online Security
Keeping your details safe from prying eyes is very important whilst online, and we appreciate this and have taken steps to ensure that your details don't fall into the wrong hands. In the sections of our website where we ask you for personal details we encypt the information as it travels across the internet between your computer and our servers using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. In simple terms, this scambles the information to such an extent that if anyone was to intercept it they wouldn't be able to make any sense of it.
How to tell if SSL is being used
On pages you are asked to enter personal details, including your name, address and credit card details, the page will be encrypted using SSL and there are two ways tell that this is the case:
- In the address bar the address will start with https:// rather than the standard http://. The 's' in https:// stands for secure;
- Depending on your web browser there will be a padlock icon either in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window, or at the end of the address bar. Clicking on the padlock icon will show you details of our SSL certificate including it's current status and expiry date
Besides these two methods on pages that are secure you will also see a security seal, like the sample on the right, that is provided by Thawte, the company that issued our SSL certificate. You can click on the seal to view the validity details of the certificate.
Ultimately, if you are still concerned with the online security of your details then you are always more than welcome to place your order by phone - 0800 043 8893
