How we secure payment information
We use TLS (Transport Layer Security) — the modern successor to SSL — to help protect data in transit. Your browser and our servers agree to encrypt what is sent so that sensitive payment-related information is not sent in plain text.
Without the proper keys on your device and on the payment systems, intercepted traffic appears as unintelligible data rather than readable card numbers.
Illustration (encrypted data looks random):
3048 0241 00C9 18FA CF8D EB2D EFD5 FD37 89B9 E069 EA97 FC20 5E35 F577 EE31 C4FB C6E4 4811 7D86 BC8F BAFA 362F 922B F01B 2F40 C744 2654 C0DD 2881 D673 CA2B 4003 C266 E2CD CB02 0301 0001
For your safety, expect any legitimate business that handles confidential payment information online to use encryption similar to this.