HomeSecurity Policy
Access to this Site
This web page and all other content in this web-site are licenced for your personal, private and non-commercial use only.
Anybody is allowed to simply browse the unsecured public areas of this site, such as product descriptions and site information, etc., which do not need a user account log-in.
Anyone wishing to purchase items using this site must be atleast 16 years old and must first register to create a user-account and then log-in prior to ordering. Logging in to this site uses session data which is temporarily noted in the database and requires cookies to be enabled in your browser.
Javascript is required for all user account registration, log-in and hence ordering.
Please note that any unauthorised access to the secured areas of this site is not allowed. "Hacking" attempts are monitored and details noted with the intention of detecting and prosecuting offenders.
The Computer Misuse Act became law in August 1990. Under the Act any unauthorised attempts at hacking into a computer system or service, including web-sites, are criminal offences.
We will co-operate fully with the police and other appropriate legal, security or financial authorities in any criminal and/or fraud investigations.
Access by Robots/Systems
The popular and well-behaved search engines (such as Google, etc.) are welcome and encouraged to spider and analyse the unrestricted areas of this site, in order to provide useful information to people looking for sites with these facilities/products. Otherwise, automated gathering/processing/adaptation of any content/data by advertising systems or any other content/data gathering robots are not permitted.
Any detected unwanted or unfriendly* human or robotic access to this web-site can and will be prevented by several means, including:
- robots.txt - which will be read by well-behaved robots (such as search engines) who will then avoid those designated private areas of the site;
- robots meta tags - which should be detected and acted upon by well-behaved robots, who will avoid designated private pages;
- automatic barring of robots/people who access restricted areas without authority;
- manual barring of robots/clients/users by e.g.: specific user-agents, domains, IP addresses and/or other client/user details who do not comply with this policy;
- destroying, resetting or corrupting cookies used by external systems to track/monitor user activities;
* where "unfriendly" can mean e.g.: rapid/repeat downloading of multiple pages, e.g. while spidering this site; any (attempted) accessing of restricted areas/pages; any (attempted) hacking into/of this site (e.g. by code/script/SQL injection); content/data harvesting; any other non-compliance with this policy; etc.
RIPA NOTICE: NO CONSENT IS GIVEN FOR INTERCEPTION OF PAGE TRANSMISSION! Section 1 of the UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) outlines the offence relating to the unauthorised interception of telecommunications. The penalty for persons committing these offences is up to 2 years imprisonment.
Protection of Your User Account and Data
It should be understood that this web-site is neither hosted on a secure server nor accessed over a secure protocol (such as SSL/HTTPS), hence by default all data are transmitted over the Internet as plain text (i.e. over unsecured HTTP).
However, for your protection, all user sensitive data are encoded prior to transmission from your browser to this web-site provided that Javascript is enabled in your browser. For additional security, provided that Javascript is enabled, your log-in password (e.g.) is one-way encrypted and encoded prior to transmission.
User account security data such as log-in password and security answer (to the registered security question) is stored in the site's database in the same one-way encrypted form for comparison when needed. Hence it is not possible for a "hacker" or even a privileged system/server/database administrator to view those details of any registered user account.
Javascript is therefore required for all user account registration, log-in and hence ordering.
You Must Take Care of Your Account
In addition to the security policies stated here, you have a responsibility to take all reasonable steps to protect your own user account(s) and ensure that your account data is kept accurate and up to date, including:
- You must not divulge your user-account log-in details to any other person, nor should you write that information down where it could be read by another person.
- You must take care to protect your personal data, including passwords and credit card details, especially if you are using this site where you can be overlooked (e.g. in a public Internet cafe or your workplace).
- You should change your user-account password periodically using the facilities provided - and straight-away if you think your account details might have become known.
- You must update your user account information if it is inaccurate or becomes out of date.
- If you believe your account has been compromised then you should both:
- immediately unregister from this site, which disables your account and prevents any further access;
- contact us so we can also permanently clear any sensitive data;
- For your own protection, we will need you to confirm your identity when you contact us.
- You are solely responsible for contacting your bank should your financial data (such as credit card numbers etc.) become known to another or be misused. We will of course co-operate with the appropriate authorities as required to aid investigations of any account misuse.
Important Note: We will endeavour to respond promptly to all contact, particularly if tagged as security related. However we are a small business that is owned and run by one person (no other staff). Also, this site is maintained and administered on a spare-time basis. Hence we may not be able to respond immediately.