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Website Security

Our website is secured with a Thawte SSL123 Certificate. Thawte's SSL certificates are 256-bit encryption enabled and boast the highest level of browser compatibility in the industry. This certificate ensures that any information provided is kept private between your Web browser and our Web server.

All data processed through our website is done so through robust, reliable and highly secure servers. Our servers are provided by RapidSwitch and are located within their highly acclaimed and industry-leading data centre in Berkshire, UK. RapidSwitch provide world-class resilient infrastructure with multiple levels of security, including 24 hour monitoring, CCTV, and restricted access.

Credit Card Security

Our website is integrated with Sage Pay (formerly Protx), who will securely handle your credit or debit card transaction. Sage Pay is the largest independent payment service provider (PSP) in the UK and Ireland.

• All transaction information passed between us and Sage Pay’s systems is encrypted using 256-bit SSL certificates. No cardholder information is ever passed unencrypted. You can be completely assured that nothing we pass to Sage Pay’s servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information.
• Sage Pay provides a secure payment gateway (Level 1 PCI DSS), processing payments for thousands of online businesses, including Little Linguist. 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.

Sage Pay is designed so that we, the vendors, do not have to hold sensitive information on our site. Therefore, in the unlikely event that someone should gain access to our database, they will be unable to recover credit card details or similar sensitive information.

We know of no documented cases of credit card fraud using our shopping system over the Internet and we have been using these systems since 2004, so when buying through our site, you can be sure that you are completely protected.