Privacy Policy
What is a privacy policy?
Are you interested in knowing what happens your details online?
Maybe you should ask all the other stores that you give your data to what they do....
Here is what we know and what we do with it.
We place a cookie on your computer when you visit.
A cookie is a piece of technology that most websites use to recognise the people that come back. When you come back we can say hello.
The other benefit of cookies is that if your computer crashes or you need to leave in a hurry we can remind you what you had put in your basket.
Our cookies have self destruct mechanisms so they will deactivate themselves if you choose not to come back.
Have you ever gone back to your email and did not have to sign in again? That's a cookie at work....
Your details
We store your name and address in an account which we use for billing you and sending you your items.
That's all we use them for.
Your credit card
You should definately ask stores what they do with this.
When you are checking out we encrypt the page that you are typing your credit card number into.
The card number is encrypted and send to our trusted partner Realex Payments who check that the card is ok and charges it the correct amount.
We do not store your credit card number.
Encryption, what's that?
SSL is the encryption that allows paying through the web possible. Can it be cracked....
Well here's what it would take, beware this will get a bit nerdy...
128 Bit encryption, the web standard, means
2 multiplied by 2
128 times over.
which is
339,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
(give or take a couple trillion...)
So a computer would have to guess 339,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations before it got yours.
Even when computers are a million times faster than they are now (about 20 years from now if they double in speed every year),
it would then still take about 6 thousand, trillion years, which is about a million times longer than the Earth has been around.
Plus, simply upgrading to 129-bit encryption would take twice as long, and 130-bit would take twice as long again.
To be sure to be sure we use 256bit encryption :)
Put even simpler it's much much safer than handing your credit card to a waiter you don't know.
