About A Girl - Secure payment

SECURE PAYMENT

EWAY - OUR SECURE PAYMENT GATEWAY

eWAY is a payment gateway provider allowing you to accept online credit card payments in real time.

With eWAY you can accept secure online and mail order credit card payments. Automate and grow your business online by processing credit card transactions 24/7 from anywhere in the world.

We understand the security of your online payments is of vital importance as an online shopper. For this reason we have invested heavily in these areas to ensure the reliability and integrity of our systems. We have partnered with industry leaders in key areas to provide a robust environment capable of delivering superior online payment services.

HOW EWAY WORKS

1. Customer Capture
During the payment process you will enter your order and credit card details. These details are securely transmitted to the eWAY payment gateway, ready for real time processing and are never stored on About A GIrl....ever, so we will not know your credit card details.

2. eWAY Gateway
Your credit card details are encrypted by eWAY, ensuring they are stored securely. Payment information is passed through our Internet merchant facility for authorisation of the credit card supplied.

3. Banking Network
Our Internet merchant facility communicates with your credit card issuer, confirming the validity of the credit card used and availability of sufficient funds. Once payments are successfully processed they are held in our Internet merchant facility ready for overnight settlement.

4. eWAY Reports
The result of the transaction is sent from the banking network to eWAY where the outcome is recorded within our transaction history. An e-mail receipt is automatically sent to you with the payment result.

5. Website Response
A real time response is returned to our website, informing you of the outcome of your payment.

SSL CERTIFICATES

Securing our website with a recognised SSL Certificate protects our customers’ information and increases consumer confidence and trust. EWAY's Platinum Partnership with VeriSign, Thawte and GeoTrust; the world’s leading SSL providers, allows us to offer the highest standards of SSL security for all orders on aboutagirl.com.

WHAT IS SSL?

The SSL (and TLS) protocol is the Web standard for encrypting communications between users and SSL (secure sockets layer) e-commerce sites. Data sent via an SSL connection is protected by encryption, a mechanism that prevents eavesdropping and tampering with any transmitted data. SSL provides businesses and consumers with the confidence that private data sent to a Web site, such as credit card numbers, are kept confidential. Web server certificates (also known as secure server certificates or SSL certificates) are required to initialize an SSL session.

Customers know when they have an SSL session with a website when their browser displays the little gold padlock and the address bar begins with a https rather than http. SSL certificates can be used on webservers for Internet security and mailservers such as imap, pop3 and smtp for mail collection / sending security.

DATA ENCRYPTION