We are devoted to keeping you stress free when shopping on Avalaya.com and understand the utmost importance of protecting our customers' credit card and other personal details.

Shopping online on our website is statistically safer than using your credit card at a high street store. Security experts point out that online purchases without human intervention are far safer than traditional credit card transactions because the information is immediately encrypted into a scrambled message that can only be decrypted by an authorised computer.

• Our servers are located in a top-notch secure data centre with restricted and controlled physical access to them.
• Your sensitive data is always sent encrypted using at least 128 bit SSL encryption.
• We employ proactive approach to secure our networks from viruses and intrusion by hackers.
• As technology is constantly changing and Internet hackers are getting smarter, our systems are routinely checked to ensure that our high security standards are maintained.
• All Credit Card payments made to our website are processed by Protx - a well established payment service provider with thousands of other businesses trusting their transaction security to them.

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

Once on the 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 held by Protx is extremely secure and Protx are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so.

Protx have 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.