Your Security
Compare & Book Limited place the security of our internet transactions as our top priority. We will continue to offer our customers the highest level of security available for online transactions and hope this reassures you when you make your reservations with us.
All financial transactions are processed using HSBC's secure ePayment service - HSBC are one of the world's largest and most reputable banks and you can therefore be rest assured that your money is in safe hands.
All sensitive information exchanged between your computer and our site is encrypted using SSL. Our SSL Certificate is guaranteed by Equifax. This ensures that your information is transmitted securely and is safe from third parties. Please read on for more information on site encryption.
Site Encryption: How Encryption Works:
Our website utilizes a technology called SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). SSL is a set of rules followed by computers connected to the Internet.
- Encryption - These rules include encryption, which guards against eavesdropping
- Data Integrity - Data integrity, which ensures that your communications are not tampered with during transmission
- Authentication - authentication, which verifies that the party who receives your communication are who they claim to be
There are two levels of encryption: 40-bit and 128-bit. With 40-bit encryption, there are billions of possible keys to decipher the coded information, and only one of them works. Someone intercepting the information would have to find the right key - a nearly impossible task.
With 128-bit encryption, there are 300 billion trillion times as many keys as with 40-bit encryption. It is virtually impossible for an unauthorized party to find the right key, even if they are equipped with the best computers.
To Check Our Site's Security Status:
When you click to confirm your booking on the confirmation page displaying your chosen activity you will be transferred to our secure server. Look at the site's URL in your browser window. You will see an "s" added to the familiar "http" (to make "https"), this indicates that SSL is in effect for the current page. You will be brought to a page displaying the following:
https://www.compareanddive.com/login/
There will be a padlock icon on the status bar of your browser. Locate the padlock at the bottom of the page; if it is locked, the site is protected by SSL protocol. On newer versions of the major browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari) you will also see information in the web address toolbar indicating that the site is safe - this is indicated with a green or blue colour depending on the browser.
If you're about to send information to a site that's not using SSL, your browser will warn you first.
SSL protects your communications during transmission. Because of the authentication involved, secure servers are slower than the regular server for delivering files. Therefore SSL is only used when transmitting sensitive information across the web.