Making a Purchase Online

We want you to know that shopping online with Simpler Times Kingston is both convenient and secure. We encourage you to take the time to review these tips on what to do when making a purchase online in order to have the best experience possible.

Whenever You’re Concerned

Check that an e-commerce component is secure. Look for the security seal indicating that it has been scanned and verified as secure by a trusted third party. This security seal indicates that the site will protect you from identity theft, credit card fraud, spam and other malicious threats.

Also, check to see if our site uses encryption or scrambling when transmitting information over the Internet. It’s not hard to verify encryption; you can do it one of two ways:

• Look for the symbol of a lock on the page.
• Check to make sure whether encryption is used by confirming the web address starts with https:// rather than http://.

We recommend that you do not use a public computer to shop online since computers save or cache information to speed up the Internet experience. If you are using a public computer, information such as your browsing history and login information may be accessible to strangers who use the computer after you.

Only use a secure connection when you place your order. Never shop using an unsecured wireless network (let’s say at a local coffee house or while waiting in an airport terminal) because hackers can access your payment information if the network is not protected.

Here’s a good rule to follow: To protect yourself, do all of your online shopping from your secure home computer.

Our Site is 100% Secure

We’ve learned from numerous polls and surveys that privacy and security are important reasons why many consumers are reluctant to shop online. We honor your concerns by providing a completely secure exchange of sensitive information in a manner that will gain your confidence and trust in any online transactions with Simpler Times Kingston.

Security measures used by most online companies involve some form of data encryption. Using the latest in data encryption technology, your personal and financial information is encrypted into a code that can only be unscrambled and read by an authorized person with the appropriate electronic key.

Any purchase you make through us is safe. We guarantee it.