| "The truth is that sending a credit card number to an electronic merchant over the internet is probably the safest way to make such a transaction. There is more risk in giving credit card data by phone to a hotel." |
Sending us your credit card order is more secure than if you had used your credit card in a restaurant or
given it to the reservations desk at the airport or over the phone to a hotel. Think of how many hands your credit card goes through in a restaurant - The waiter, the cashier, the manager, the accountant and whoever empties the waste bin at night....and yet we feel safe with such transactions! Internet security has been a fairly bogus issue and the fear is mostly generated by those with a vested interest in software sales or the creation of 'electronic money' schemes. The truth of the matter is there are 60 trillion bytes of information per second flashing through the information pipeline. Anyone who has the ability to extract your precise sequence of digits out of that probably already has an algorithmic program that creates credit cards on demand!
In the unlikely event that a problem did occur, the credit card company picks up the charges and passes them
on to the merchant - not to you. However, if you still feel that you would prefer to order over the phone, please telephone us at (01 424) 465543 or fax your details to (01 424) 465575.
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