We take security very seriously, which is why we have chosen to use online credit card processing facilities provided by PayPal.

PayPal is Europe's leading payment service provider. PayPal have impeccable fraud prevention capabilities and as such are master merchants for Visa and MasterCard.

Our PayPal facilities are fully secure and use a range of industry standard and PayPal unique security and fraud prevention systems. The PayPal network uses 2048-bit encryption, with full 128-bit encryption between the browser and the PayPal network. PayPal systems are regularly inspected by the major banks to ensure that system integrity and security are maintained to the highest standards.

The PayPal processing centre is securely linked to many processing banks worldwide, who handle the credit card authorisations online and process the transactions in real time. The PayPal servers are certified by Thawte, a public Certificate Authority. Thawte will only issue Digital Certificates to those servers which meet stringent security requirements. The PayPal servers meet and exceed these requirements.

It is now known that Internet transactions through systems such as PayPals are inherently more secure than other methods of making purchases in 'cardholder not present' situations such as telesales, or when giving a card to a waiter in a restaurant.

Your online purchase from us will take place in real time, and we will never see your credit card details. You can have confidence that our online purchasing facilities are secure and safe to use.