The prospect of ordering goods from a website for the first time can be quite harrowing this could be partly due to past press reports about on-line trading not being safe. Hopefully the following information will help ease your mind.
In addition to the WorldPay Guarantee, if you use a card issued in the United Kingdom to purchase goods over the internet to the value of £100 or more and you are a resident of the UK then you are protected by Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. This particular law states that your credit card company will refund you any money you might have lost through a fraudulent or unauthorized transaction.
If you were to use your credit or debit card to buy goods from ElectricalShop.Net you could rest assured that your card details were completely safe as we use a company called WorldPay to take care of the whole credit/debit card transaction. By entering your card details into the web page of this company and not ours there is no way for us to obtain your card details unless of course you place your order over the telephone with us. WorldPay are an international company with offices here and in Jersey, they process thousands of transactions a day using their own secure servers.
Before you send any of your details 'over the net' to their servers it is encoded using the most up to date '128bit standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, using Thawte digital certificate technology '. In effect this would stop anyone 'listening in' between your computer and WorldPay's server from obtaining any of your card details. Also if someone were to hack into the WorldPay servers your details would still be safe due to the encrypted files they use.
In fact research has show that it would be safer to use you credit or debit card on the internet compared to any of the following situations :-
- In a shop where the card slip might get into the wrong hands
- In a restaurant where you might lose sight of the card
- Over an unsecured telephone line where anyone could be taking down your number
- In a pub or club where you might leave it behind the bar to pay for your drinks
Finally, ElectricalShop.Net has never and will never defraud people like you - our customers!
