Website Privacy

During a visit to our web site, your privacy is respected. We do not collect personal information about you unless you choose to send us an e-mail, request a catalogue, or place an order, in which you voluntarily provide your name and contact information. Visitors’ personal information received via e-mail or collected on the website is provided only to Richters personnel, to related Richters companies, or to agents of Richters who require the information to respond to inquiries, to process and ship orders, or to update you about Richters. We do not sell or rent your information to anyone.

We protect all personal information in our custody with strong security safeguards. Using our SafeSecure system when ordering from our online catalogue ensures that your personal data is never left unprotected on a computer or harddrive that is not secured on Richters premises.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Cookies

Our site makes use of "per-session" cookies. Cookies are small text files offered to your computer by web servers in order to keep track of your browser as you navigate the site. Unlike "persistent" cookies, which are stored on your hard drive and can last for years, even decades, "per-session" cookies are stored only in your browser’s temporary (cache) memory and are deleted when you shut down your browser.

Here is how our session cookies work: Each time you visit our site, our web server offers your browser a temporary session cookie containing only a randomly-generated numeric string. As you navigate the site, this unique numeric text string is read back to our web server, allowing us to generate an anonymous "click trail" profile of your visit. From the aggregated information on unique visits, we learn how visitors interact with our site, how we can improve our site design and content, and how to improve visitors’ experiences. Session cookies also ensure that your shopping cart is not lost while placing an order online.

Our use of session cookies ensures your online privacy and security. Here’s why: The contents of our session cookie are not linked, shared or associated in any way with personal information that you may have supplied to us or made available elsewhere. A new and unique session cookie is randomly generated for each visit. This means that we cannot track or link together multiple visits by any single user over time. Our session cookies cannot be "read" by any other Web servers, meaning that you cannot be tracked or profiled using our cookie when you surf across multiple sites on the Web.

Visiting our web site with cookies disabled will not prevent you from browing our web site. You can set your browser to detect and reject cookies. Please consult your browser’s Help Menu for instructions. But if you choose to disable cookies, please be aware that the contents of your shopping cart could, in some rare instances, be lost. Cookies help to ensure that data is not lost during your shopping experience.

SafeSecure™ Online Shopping System

Order with confidence on Richters SafeSecure™ online ordering system. Our state-of-the-art shopping cart system is protected from criminals. When you submit your order on the secure server an impenetrable electronic security wall prevents any unauthorized interception of your credit card information, all the way from your computer to ours in Goodwood.

Beware of online stores that offer only partial security! Many online stores offer only "front end" security between your computer and a third-party web server shared by many users. But if there is no "back end" security between the web server and the store’s own computer, your credit card information could easily be compromised. Don’t be fooled into thinking that the little lock on your browser means your information is secure!

Richters SafeSecure system utilizes advanced cryptographical technology to safeguard your data. We use a leading authentication scheme to secure the front end between your computer and our web server, the same technology used by the major banks and credit card companies to secure electronic transactions. On the back end, your order is encrypted on the fly and and immediately emailed in encrypted form to Richters. Data never sits on an unsecured hard drive and never gets transmitted over unsecured channels.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.