Ingenious IT Professional or its licensors are committed to protecting your privacy as an Internet user whenever you buy goods or services from a Merchant which uses Ingenious IT Professional. The Merchant will generally be using Ingenious IT Professional when the cardholder is using a credit or debit card over the Internet, Phone, Fax, Unattended or Integrated EFTPOS system. Ingenious IT Professional recognizes its responsibility to keep confidential at all times any information which Ingenious IT Professional acquires in connection with such a transaction, whether directly from the Cardholders or Merchant. Ingenious IT Professional protects personal information (at a minimum) to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards. Please note however; Ingenious IT Professional responsibility is limited to protection by Ingenious IT Professional of information which Ingenious IT Professional obtains. Ingenious IT Professional itself cannot, of course, control the use or disclosure by your supplier of any information which they obtain from you.

// Collection of Information

To enable Ingenious IT Professional to provide secure payment facilities it will typically acquire information which may include the Cardholder's name, credit card number (with the expiry date) and billing address.

// Use and Disclosure of Information

Ingenious IT Professional uses the information to obtain authorization of the transaction from the Issuing bank of the credit card and Ingenious IT Professional own or the Merchant's bank and to process the payment. Some details from the transaction (such as name, email and delivery address) may be made available to the Merchant or Acquirer through Payline - Ingenious IT Professional web based transactions management system, which allows Merchants to track transactions and process refunds.

// Security

Ingenious IT Professional is committed to data security. Ingenious IT Professional uses a variety of technologies and procedures to help protect personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, Ingenious IT Professional stores the data in computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities secured by the latest in surveillance and security technology. When Ingenious IT Professional transmits sensitive information (such as a credit card numbers), Ingenious IT Professional protects it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Ingenious IT Professional is a level 1 certified PCI-DSS compliant provider.