To order online, press the "Add" button. At any time, you can either check out or view/change the contents of your cart by clicking "View Cart/Checkout" at the side of any page. By entering a valid e-mail address you will automatically be sent an e-mail confirmation of your order.

The shopping cart works by sending a cookie containing the item number to your browser whenever you select an item to purchase. Your browser sends all these cookies along with the request to the "cart contents" page. The "cart contents" page uses the file(s) to make a list of the items you want to purchase. You can remove items by changing the quantity to zero and clicking the "Update Cart" button, conversely you can also increase the amount. Once you are satisfied with your order your browser then passes the cookie(s) on to the secure "Checkout" page. To finalize your order simply fill in the personal details required and these will be forwarded along with the item information contained by the cookie(s). The "Checkout" page is protected by SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to allow for secure processing of credit card information.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology that enables websites to store small bits of information on your computer, and then ask for that information back at a later time.

We utilize cookies to accurately track any products you may want to order from the website. Cookies do not store personal information about website users without their consent, and then only in response to special surveys.

In most cases, the cookies are completely invisible to web users. However, some people may opt to enable a feature in their browser software which notifies them when cookies are being exchanged. If you have enabled this feature, we apologize for any inconvenience such notifications may cause you, and assure you that our usage of cookie technology will not compromise either your privacy or security. But don't take our word for it, here's the latest from the Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability.

Security

The Twelfth House shopping cart is designed to run on an insecure server while you gather your purchases. It will not collect any information about you while running in insecure mode. When you are ready to make your purchase, you will be transferred to a secure server where you will be asked to provide shipping and billing information. This secure server utilizes SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to allow for secure processing of credit card information. SSL is a program layer for managing the security of message transmissions in a network. The idea is that the programming for keeping your messages confidential ought to be contained in a program layer between an application (such as your Web browser or HTTP) and the Internet's TCP/IP layers. The "sockets" part of the term refers to the sockets method of passing data back and forth between a client and a server program in a network or between program layers in the same computer.