Website Security

Our Payment Service Provider is Sage Pay (formerly Protx) – the largest independent payment service provider (PSP) in the UK and Ireland. Sage Pay provides a secure payment gateway (Level 1 PCI DSS), processing payments for thousands of online businesses, including ours. It is Sage Pay’s utmost priority to ensure that transaction data is handled in a safe and secure way.

Sage Pay uses a range secure methods such as fraud screening, I.P address blocking and 3D secure. Once on the Sage Pay systems, all sensitive data is secured using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards.

Sage Pay is PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliant to the highest level and maintains regular security audits. They are also regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure that their systems are impenetrable. Sage Pay is an active member of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) that defines card industry global regulation.

In addition, you know that your session is in a secure encrypted environment when you see https:// in the web address, and/or when you see the locked padlock symbol alongside the URL.

So when buying through our site, you can be sure that you are completely protected.

More information about shopping securely with Sage Pay can be found at www.sagepay.com/shoppers

3D Secure

3D Secure is becoming an industry standard. It is currently mandatory for accepting Maestro cards.

For further information please follow these links, which open in a new browser window:

	www.visaeurope.com/personal/onlineshopping/verifiedbyvisa/main.jsp
	www.mastercard.com/us/merchant/solutions/mastercard_securecode.html

When you are ready to enter your payment details at our Checkout you are taken to a secure page with the latest requirements for the secure hosting of web pages. This is confirmed by the padlock symbol in the address bar at the top of the page and the web address will begin with 'https' rather than 'http' - the extra 's' stands for 'secure'.