Data Protection

Our payment security policy

Our Payment Service Provider is Sage Pay (formerly Protx) – the largest independent payment service provider 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

Data protection, privacy, storing and sharing information:

Information from our customers enables us to continually improve the service we offer. However, we take privacy of information relating to our customers very seriously and comply with all UK data protection laws in collecting, storing and using this information. Using this Web Site, or when contacting us both on-line and over the telephone, may involve you giving us certain information about yourself or your business, including your name and address, telephone number and email address. Any information we receive from you, will be stored by us and we do net sell or trade it with anyone and will take all reasonable care to keep your personal data secure and to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We may use this information to contact you by email, telephone or post to provide you with the details about our services at your request, It is intended that by providing information about yourself to us you consent to their use for the above purposes. Other than as required by law or in the prevention of fraud, we will not pass information we hold about you to any other organisation. If you do not want us to use this information in this way please contact us sales@hivis.co.uk
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