Q.8 Examine the registration process for your site, from the perspective of security. Is your data encrypted? What does this mean?

“We are committed to protecting your privacy and the security of any information given to us in order for us to process your order.”

Schuh’s policy is to not gather or hold information a customer’s information without consent from the customer. By placing an order to Schuh the customer is giving their consent for them to hold the information given. They also say that any information that the do hold will be kept updated and then will be destroyed once they have no use for the information.

Schuh operate a strict policy on not sharing their customers information with any third parties, with the exception of the delivery company delivering the shoes to the customer. They also share the information to ensure that payment of the order will go through.

 On the website it states that the customers “privacy and confidence will be respected at all times.

The security of the customer’s transaction is important to Schuh and to prevent customer details being seen by unofficial parties they protect it throughout the payment process.

To ensure this is done they use a secure server to encrypt the customer’s information before it is sent to the payments processor. All the customer details are passed on at this point to be able to complete their order.  This means that if any unofficial parties were able to see the information they would not have the code to decipher the information to gain the detail of the customer purchasing products form the website.