HOW SECURE IS MY ONLINE PAYMENT

Security is probably one of the most significant concerns during an online transaction. In reality an online transaction is probably more secure than a card transaction in a shop or conducted over the telephone or by fax.
Information transmitted online is encrypted using complicated logarithm combinations unlike these other methods that use standard medium coding. The company we use to process transactions is WorldPay - a well established market leader in it's field.

The WorldPay Select payment gateway uses a combination of both established and innovative techniques to ensure the security and integrity of all sensitive data, protecting both the merchant and their customers. All communication between the customer and WorldPay is encrypted to the maximum strength supported by the customer's browser using: TLS or SSL (security). Their public web servers are certified by THAWTE, a public Certificate Authority ensuring that customers and merchants alike can have confidence that nobody can impersonate WorldPay to obtain confidential information.

All communication between the merchant and WorldPay, including the details of the purchase are encapsulated using our own encrypted and digitally-signed protocol. This uses a combination of standard methods such as PGP, RSA and MD5 to ensure that the information passed is secure and tamper-proof. Data storage on WorldPay systems, and the communication between WorldPay and the world-wide banking networks, is regularly audited by the banks themselves.
There are no vulnerabilities or 'back doors' in any WorldPay systems. WorldPay ensures that they stay up to date with the latest versions of any third-party code they use, and continually review their own proprietary code, using current best practice at all times.

HOW SECURE IS WORLDPAY?

WorldPay is fully secure, and utilises a range of industry standard and WorldPay unique security and fraud prevention systems, combined with fault tolerant secure server networks and firewalls. Our processing centre is securely linked to NatWest Bank and other processing banks world-wide, who handle the credit card authorisations online and process the transactions in real time. It is now well known that Internet payment in general are inherently more secure than other methods of making purchases in 'cardholder not present' situations, such as telesales, or even when giving a card to a waiter in a restaurant.