Protecting your business

Helping you become compliant

The SaferPayments programme, available through our payment service provider Worldpay, is designed to give your business a helping hand through the PCI DSS certification process. Becoming certified as compliant takes as little as 30 minutes and with the SaferPayments programme you’ll receive:

• Dedicated telephone support – to guide you through the completion of the self-certification process.
• Access to a full scan facility in order to facilitate your compliance – minimising any potential data loss.
• Automatic enrolment to Worldpay’s SaferPayments programme.

The benefits of becoming compliant

By using the SaferPayments programme, you’ll avoid all non-compliance fees and additional PCI DSS charges once you become certified as compliant:

• Peace of mind – You’re protecting your business and customers
• Protect your customer's card data and your business against the first £35,000^ of card scheme fines
• Prevents additional fees – Avoid the monthly non-compliance fee and additional PCI DSS service fees, when you become certified.

^ If you use the Safer Payments programme once certified it means that should Worldpay be fined by the card scheme as a result of a data breach experienced by you, they will waive their right to pass the first £35,000 of fines on to you.

Worldpay, our payment service provider, will contact you within 6 weeks of becoming a customer with more details on registering for the SaferPayments programme and becoming PCI DSS compliant.

A £29.99 annual management fee applies to all customers, irrespective of their PCI DSS compliance status. This fee reflects the management of your PCI DSS compliance, along with initial and ongoing costs of implementing the SaferPayments programme and ensuring that you have a mechanism to validate your PCI DSS compliance. If you do not certify as PCI DSS compliant then a £9.99 monthly non-compliance fee will also apply.

If you have any questions about becoming PCI DSS certified, please contact 0330 808 0663.

Terms and conditions apply. Fees are charged by Worldpay.

Useful links

• Find out more and register
• FAQs
• SafePayments login

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Please be aware that there are a number of restrictions and you can still receive chargebacks for other reasons, such as duplicated processing, goods not received and no authorisation.

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