You can be confident that shopping online at Altered Image Fancy Dress will be a safe and secure experience. When placing your order, your credit card numbers and personal details are encrypted using industry standard 128-bit encryption and your details are not clearly displayed, or stored by the website. We check our systems regularly and use a combination of security providers to ensure all orders are completely safe and secure.

is the union of Protx, the fastest growing payment service provider (PSP) and Sage, one of the UK’s most trusted business brands. We offer our 25,000+ customers a secure payment service for the millions of transactions that we undertake on their behalf each year. The philosophy that has driven us since our launch in 2001 is still at the heart of our business – to give our customers more than they pay for, and to make it really easy for them to do business.

We make the process of accepting payments simpler, faster and safer for our customers, and consistently give them more for their money – more products and services and greater safety and security. We take the time to listen our customers and quickly respond. Whether your need for online payment is simple or a completely tailored solution, we believe in delivering an extraordinary customer experience.

Sage Pay’s systems are scanned quarterly by Trustwave which are an independent Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) for the payment card brands.

Sage pay is also audited annually under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) and is a fully approved Level 1 payment services provider, which is the highest level of compliance. We are also active members of the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) that defines card industry global regulation.

All transaction information passed between merchant sites and Sage Pay’s systems is encrypted using 128-bit SSL certificates. No cardholder information is ever passed unencrypted and any messages sent to your servers from Sage Pay are signed using MD5 hashing to prevent tampering. You can be completely assured that nothing you pass to Sage Pay’s servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information. Once on our 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 we hold is extremely secure and we are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so.

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