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<p>[QUOTE="stoster38, post: 2001852, member: 11827"]Just to clarify using a mobile phone, whether it be an iPhone or an Android phone, to make purchases online has nothing to do with the "cloud". What determines your security is how your accessing the web. Are you connected to public wifi like at Starbucks? Or are you using your carrier's cellular network?</p><p><br /></p><p>I've used my iPhone to make several online purchases but always made sure I either used my carrier's network or was using a VPN app to connect to a public wifi spot or a password protected wifi hotspot. Granted nothing is 100% secure but you can minimize your risks, by not using password free public wifi hotspots, to make online purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the website itself. I like the look more than the old website. I also like that an order I placed on Sunday shipped out Tuesday rather than waiting a week or more for it to ship. In terms of canceling an order it's not that different from other companies. Once they are processing your order you typically can't cancel it from what I've noticed. So I'm not too disappointed about that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stoster38, post: 2001852, member: 11827"]Just to clarify using a mobile phone, whether it be an iPhone or an Android phone, to make purchases online has nothing to do with the "cloud". What determines your security is how your accessing the web. Are you connected to public wifi like at Starbucks? Or are you using your carrier's cellular network? I've used my iPhone to make several online purchases but always made sure I either used my carrier's network or was using a VPN app to connect to a public wifi spot or a password protected wifi hotspot. Granted nothing is 100% secure but you can minimize your risks, by not using password free public wifi hotspots, to make online purchases. As to the website itself. I like the look more than the old website. I also like that an order I placed on Sunday shipped out Tuesday rather than waiting a week or more for it to ship. In terms of canceling an order it's not that different from other companies. Once they are processing your order you typically can't cancel it from what I've noticed. So I'm not too disappointed about that.[/QUOTE]
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