At Simons Leathers, we take security very seriously and make purchasing leather goods online as safe as shopping in any of our high street shops. Your browser will go into secure mode as soon as you access the payment pages, i.e. before you enter any payment details. You can check that you are shopping in a secure environment by looking for either a locked padlock or a key icon in the grey bar at the bottom of your screen.

Being in 'secure mode' means that all of your details are encrypted to help keep them secure. Encryption creates billions of code combinations to protect each transaction made on our site, so your card details cannot be viewed by anyone else using the Internet, keeping your details as safe as possible at all times.

We only accept online orders that are placed using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). This technology prevents you from inadvertently revealing personal information using an insecure connection. During payment, we also ask for your card billing address as an additional security check.

We recommend that you always close down your Internet browser when you have finished shopping online, especially if you use a shared PC. This will delete temporary Internet cookies from any sites that you may have visited.

If you have any further concerns about security, please email us or telephone on 01202 558884.

We have a commitment to information security and undertake various measures for the purpose of protecting against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against loss or destruction of or damage to personal data.

We undertake the following measures to ensure a high level of information security for our customers whilst using the Simons Leather website shop.

Credit Card and Personal Information

Any credit card or personally identifying information divulged to Simons Leathers via our website will be stored on secure servers and not released to any other party without your explicit written authorisation unless as expressly provided in the Simons Leathers Privacy Policy.

Pages on our website that request payment information are protected using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) security, which encrypts any data transmitted - please see below.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Protection

The purchase area of our website is secure. We use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt sensitive information such as your name, address and credit card details. Information passed between your computer and our website cannot be read in the event that someone else intercepts it.

Additionally, the Simons Leathers accounts system is not connected to the Internet and is not accessible in any way, which keeps your information secure.

 

Privacy Statement

The registered company called Pandell Limited, trading as Simons Leathers, recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of certain general information ("data") and specific personal information ("Personal Data") collected about our customers (referred to as "Customers", "you", or "your") and consequently respect your privacy. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. It is our intention to give you an understanding about how we collect your information and the use we make of it in the course of our business.

As technology continues to develop, our privacy policy may need changing in order to provide the best possible service to our site visitors. We would recommend you to check and make sure that you have read our most recent policy statement when you visit our website. Simons Leathers only collects personally identifiable information about you (i.e. your name, address etc.) through our websites when voluntarily submitted by you, the visitor. Visitors may choose to submit personal information to enter contests, to obtain information or submit a comment, to place an order, to provide a more personalised shopping experience or to inform you of special offers and discounts. Providing personal information is up to you, our visitor. If you do not want your personal information collected, please do not submit it to us. We also offer visitors an "opt-out" option at any time they wish to cease receiving e-mails or other information from us.

Security measures are in place to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of the information received from our online visitors, and to make such information as secure as possible against unauthorised access and use. Occasionally, we may collect technical information automatically when you connect to our site which is not personally identifiable. An example of this would include the type of Internet Browser or the type of computer operating system you are using or the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site.

We use "cookie" technology and IP addresses only to obtain non-personal information from on-line visitors to provide them with the best possible personalised on-line experience. To do this we do keep track of the type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape) and operating system (e.g., Windows, Macintosh) used by the visitor, and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider.

We also track the total number of visitors to our site in an aggregate form to allow us to update and improve our site; personally identifiable information is not extracted in this process. This helps us keep our site fresh and interesting to the majority of our visitors.

Cookie technology also helps us deliver content tailored to a visitor's interests. You may disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do disable cookies, we may be unable to optimise your visit to our site.