Privacy Policy

credit card security secure payment with sagepay
we use the industry leading internet payment company sagepay to protect your card details and protect us from fraud. sagepay has achieved the highest level of compliance under the payment card industry data security standard . they adhere to the most stringent levels of fraud screening, ensuring that your customer's details remain secure throughout the transaction process.
transaction security
all transaction information passed between merchant sites and the sagepay vsp systems is encrypted using 128-bit ssl certificates. no cardholder information is ever passed unencrypted and any messages sent to your servers from sagepay are signed using md5 hashing to prevent tampering. you can be completely secure in the knowledge that nothing you pass to the sagepay servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information.
encryption and data storage.
all sensitive data is secured on sagepay using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards used by, among others, the us government. the encryption keys are held on state-of-the-art, tamper proof systems in the same family as those used to secure verisign's global root certificate, making them all but impossible to extract. the data we hold is extremely secure and we are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so. sagepay has multiple private links into the banking network that are completely separate from the internet and which do not cross any publicly accessible networks.
links to banks
sagepay has multiple private links into the banking network that are completely separate from the internet and which do not cross any publicly accessible networks. any cardholder information sent to the banks and any authorisation message coming back is secure and cannot be tampered with.
employee access
no individuals within sagepay are able to decrypt transaction information or cardholder data. our systems only allow access to our most senior staff and only in extenuating circumstances
your transaction information and customer card information is secure even from our own employees because our systems never display the full card numbers, even on administration screens.