PROTX Secure payment systems: Securing the future of e-commerce

To guarantee your security and ours when purchasing what is an expensive and valuable item of equipment, we have engaged the services of the UK's largest independent Payment Service Provider - PROTX Credit Card Processing Systems.

PROTX provide secure online credit card and debit card payment solutions for thousands of online and mail order businesses across the UK.

PROTX have become the largest independent Payment Service Provider in the UK because their solutions offer customers exceptional value for money without compromising on the level of service and functionality that provided.

PROTX was formed in 2001 by a group of private investors to acquire and develop secure payment technology. Following development of a state-of-the-art payment system, the first challenge to the new company was to gain approval with the acquiring banks to act as an approved payment processor.

Between 2001 and 2003, PROTX gained approval with all major acquiring banks to facilitate secure online transactions, including: Lloyds TSB Cardnet, Bank of Scotland, Barclays Merchant Services, HSBC, NatWest Streamline, American Express, and Diners. PROTX is now a fully approved payment processor with all major UK acquiring banks. To see a list of banks that PROTX work with please click here.

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Accreditation: Security

As a Payment Service Provider, thousands of businesses outsource their transaction security to PROTX whose top priority is to ensure that transaction data is kept secure at all times.

Transaction security

All transaction information passed between merchant sites and the PROTX VSP Systems is encrypted using 128-bit SSL certificates. No cardholder information is ever passed unencrypted and any messages sent to our servers from PROTX are signed using MD5 hashing to prevent tampering. You can be completely secure in the knowledge that nothing this website passes to the PROTX servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information.

Encryption and Data Storage

Once on PROTX systems, all sensitive data is secured using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards used by, among others, the US Government. The encryption keys are held on state-of-the-art, tamper proof systems in the same family as those used to secure VeriSign's Global Root certificate, making them all but impossible to extract. The data PROTX holds is extremely secure and they are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so.

Links to banks

PROTX has multiple private links into the banking network that are completely separate from the Internet and which do not cross any publicly accessible networks. Any cardholder information sent to the banks and any authorisation message coming back is secure and cannot be tampered with.

Employee access

No individuals within PROTX are able to decrypt transaction information or cardholder data. PROTX systems only allow access to their most senior staff and only in extenuating circumstances (such as investigations of Card Fraud by the Police). Your transaction information and customer card information is secure even from our PROTX employees because PROTX systems never display the full card numbers, even on administration screens.