Secure Payments

Security - how we secure your information when you buy via our website

Online Lighting Shop is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place steps to safeguard the integrity of data and protection of personal information.

For payments we use Realex Payments system which is one of Europe’s largest and fastest growing online payment gateways, providing a range of payment processing services for businesses selling online and processing payments valued in excess of £20Bn per annum on behalf of 12,500 retailers throughout Europe. We also use Paypal which is an international e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as cheques and money orders.

onlinelightingshop.co.uk utilizes some of the most advanced technology for Internet security available today. When you access our site using industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, your information is protected using both server authentication and data encryption, ensuring that your data is safe, secure, and available only to registered Users.

onlinelightingshop.co.uk provides each User with a unique user name and password that must be entered each time a User logs on. onlinelightingshop.co.uk issues a session "cookie" only to record encrypted authentication information for the duration of a specific session. The session "cookie" does not include either the username or password of the user. onlinelightingshop.co.uk does not use "cookies" to store other confidential user and session information, but instead implements more advanced security methods based on dynamic data and encoded session IDs.

In addition, onlinelightingshop.co.uk is hosted in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced technology to prevent interference or access from outside intruders.