Why is Paypal Safer ? 

PayPal deliver one of the most secure payment platforms in the world. After more than a decade as the leader in online payments, Paypal have learned a thing or two about keeping your information safe.

Paypal can spot problems before they happen

Paypal uses fraud prevention technology that monitors transactions for suspicious activity.

• Paypal have a team of over 2,000 specialists including former law enforcement officials, working to protect you from fraud and identity theft.

• To help weed out fraudulent activity, every transaction is reviewed by state of the art models.

• Paypal ensures users who send or receive large amounts of money have successfully completed their verification system and identity check.

PayPal uses state of the art encryption

Safeguarding your financial and personal information is one of Paypal's most important priorities. That's why Paypal automatically encrypt all sensitive information sent between your computer and Paypal's systems, during the checkout stage, ensuring your information is kept private.

The geeky details

When going through the checkout procedure, you are forwarded to Paypal's server and in the process, paypal verifies that your Internet browser is running Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 (SSL) or higher. Information is protected by SSL with an encryption key length of 168 bits (the highest level commercially available). Paypal stores your personal information and ensure that it is heavily guarded, both physically and electronically. To further safeguard your debit and credit card numbers and your bank account details, paypal do not directly connect their firewall-protected servers to the internet.

PayPal accepts the following cards:

• Visa / Delta / Electron
• MasterCard / Eurocard
• PayPal Top Up Card
• Maestro
• Solo
• American Express

Debit cards (also known as bank cards) are accepted if they have a Visa or MasterCard logo

 *PLEASE NOTE*

You do not need to set up an account with paypal to make a credit card payment. There are however, many advantages of doing so as you will be able to make future payments a lot quicker without having to enter credit card details everytime you want to make a payment.