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Safe Shopping Guide
The Old’e English Shaving Shop presents
some tips on shopping online safely.
If you are careful, shopping online
is as safe as, if not safer than shopping in a regular
store. Here are some tips and pointers.
Telephone number and physical address.
Make sure that the site you are shopping from has a telephone
number and a physical address.If you want to be particularly
cautious, call the telephone number and verify that the
site you are shopping from represents a legitimate business.
The Old’e English Shaving Shop has a well known store
in Cape Town’s prestigious Victoria and Alfred Waterfront.
There is also a factory and warehouse.
Warehouse
193 Voortrekker Road
Maitland
Cape Town
South Africa
7800
Physical Store
Shop 279 Victoria Wharf
V&A Waterfront
Cape Town
South Africa
7800
Telephone : +27 21 514 3633
What information does the site ask for and how is it protected
Ensure that the site has a well worded privacy policy
and that the site is explicit about what information it
is collecting from you.
The Old’e English Shaving Shop’s privacy policy is available
here.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) security
When paying by credit card, ensure that the page that
asks you for your credit card details is secure and encrypted.
To check this, make sure that the address of the page
begins with https://www. And not just http://www. Also
ensure that the small padlock icon 
appears in your browsers task bar, usually at the bottom
right of your screen.NEVER give your credit card information
out via e-mail. This is extremely insecure.The Old’e English
Shaving shop website at www.englishshavingshop.com does
not collect your credit card information at all. All of
our credit card transactions are processed by Virtual
Card Services using 128 bit encryption. On checkout,
our site will transfer you to Virtual
Card Service’s secure server where you will be asked
to enter your credit card information. This means that
you can be sure that your financial information is safe
as it is not ever passed on to us. 
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