Antiques of the Orient uses the latest technology to protect your credit card information and does not release it to any outside organization. When you place your orders with us via email, your credit card information will be encrypted using Netscape's SSL encryption (the Internet standard for secure transactions).

We will not rent or sell your name, address, email address, credit card information or personal information to any third party without your permission. Also, your personal information will not be shared with any non-personal, non-individual statistical or demographic information in aggregate form with our marketing partners, advertisers or other third-parties for research purposes. In other words, we will not tell our marketing partners that you purchased a specific product without prior approval from our customers.

Users should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of internet servers or through the use of "cookies." "Cookies" are small text files a web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage files. If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, users should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features e.g. keeping track of the items in the shopping basket.