UK Computer Components

How we keep your details safe.

In some areas of this website we ask you to send us data that needs to be kept securely - credit card payments for your purchase, for example.

The pages that ask for this data should come to you through our secure server. You can check you are viewing the page through our secure server by looking in your browser's address bar - the address should start https://web177.secure-secure.co.uk/ukcomputercomponents.com// If you are using Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox & Safari these browsers show a padlock icon in their status bar.

Your data is then encrypted by our secure server, split into 2 packages of information and stored on our server. A secure random key is all that links the 2 halves of your information. Your information is never transmitted either to yourself or to us in its full form. The only way we can reconstruct your information is to manually access our server put the 2 pieces of information together. and sent to us at UK Computer Components. The key is randomly generated for each message (i.e. each form submission). This key is protected using the RSA Public Key algorithm with a 2304-bit modulus. It would take a huge network of the fastest computers well over 50 years to guess a message key and decrypt the message (at current estimates).

Cookies and the shopping basket

The shopping basket (used only for buying UK Computer Components goods and software) requires that your computer has cookies enabled. Cookies are small chunks of data that are stored on your computer that allow the website to remember information between pages.

Cookies are only used in the shopping basket - nowhere else on the UK Computer Components site. The shopping basket cookies store your name, address, contact details and chosen items while you surf through our website - NO financial data is stored. If you do not allow cookies, or your network administrator has disabled them, you will not be able to use the shopping basket. For more information about cookies see BBC Webwise.

Cookies from the shopping basket are automatically deleted from your computer at the end of your browser session. If you are concerned about the contents of the cookies, please close all your browser windows before leaving the site. This will delete the data they hold. You can also delete all UK Computer Components cookies by emptying your shopping cart. All cookies are automatically deleted when you complete your order.

SSL Data Encryption

The ukcomputercomponents.com website is registered with site identification authorities to enable your browser to confirm our security identity before any transmission is sent. With this technology, the identity of our site is automatically confirmed behind the scenes prior to the transmission of any customer information requested to complete an online order and ensures that your data reaches your intended target or your browser notifies you (prior to your sending any personal information) that the potential receiving site looks suspicious and should be avoided. If you are using a security-enabled browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.1 or greater, Netscape Navigator version 2.0 or greater, Firefox or Opera), the information you send us regarding your purchase is encrypted, making it extremely difficult to read even if it is wrongly intercepted. At ukcomputercomponents.com, we utilise industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of: potentially sensitive information such as your name and address and other critically sensitive information like your credit card number

Still not happy?

If you are still not happy sending your details online, please call us on 0151 632 2120 and we will be happy to take your order and process your payment.