Samuel Johnston Ltd understands that before you are willing to buy something over the internet you need to be absolutely sure that your card details will not be lost, stolen or used by any other individuals against your will. This section of the site is designed to give you the confidence you need to be able to shop and buy with absolute peace of mind. Cookies are used by this site, however this is solely to facilitate the use of the shopping basket program and not for gathering unsolicited information or tracking or monitoring of any kind. You can set your computer not to accept these cookies however this will prevent you from being able to use the basket feature and hence purchase from this site. Samuel Johnston Ltd guarantees that no information about an individual, their computer or their credit card is gathered or held other than that which has been entered by the individual at point of sale, and this information is only that which is required to allow completion of the transaction, delivery of the goods and a point of contact (E-Mail or Phone) for keeping you updated about the status of your order. Most people are a little nervous when using their credit card online. However in the majority of cases this is most unnecessary. The mechanism by which your credit card details are taken by this website is incredibly safe. When you decide to make a purchase and go to the checkout section of the store your credit card details will only be taken when a secure connection has been established between your computer and our SSL server. This SSL means Secure Socket Layer and is the industry standard for secure online transactions. Look for the in the task bar to prove you are using the SSL connection before you enter your credit card information in the final stage of purchasing It basically means that it is impossible for someone to intercept your credit card details as you submit them, guaranteeing your card security. Once you have entered your credit card details, which is done via a secure connection using 40 bit encryption. They are then instantly encyrpted using a 1024 bit encryption technique (Called "Diffie-Hellman") which is virtually uncrackable. This form of encryption is so tough, in fact, that it would take the most powerfull computer available today well over fifteen years to get a single credit card number! Your credit card details remain on our secure server and are only decrypted after they have have been downloaded to our server. Your credit card details are not held unencrypted at any location on or off this site. Once the order (and your credit card details in encrypted form) has been downloaded it is then deleted from the secure server so no trace of it is left. Samuel Johnston Ltd Online hopes this information puts your mind at ease regarding the safety of online buying. However if you have any other queries please do not hesitate to ask by E-Mailing a mamber of our staff at: info@samueljohnston.co.uk