Keeping your business safe
Taking card payments means that you’ll be handling personal
data from your customers, so you’ll need to make sure that
you keep their details secure. You may have heard about
the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI
DSS), which helps to make sure that anyone handling card
payments does so securely. We’ll write to you again in 3-4
months with more information, but for now there are a few
simple things you can do to help look after your business.
Keep your receipts locked away
Your card machine will print a ‘merchant copy’ receipt with
a card number on, which must be kept secure. You’ll need
to make sure you lock away all receipts and keep them
somewhere safe.
Make sure you know who has your card machine at all times
Fraudsters can sometimes target card machines in order to
gather card data. The easiest way to keep yourself safe is to
make sure that you always know who has your card machine
and what they’re using it for. Fraudsters have occasionally
posed as service engineers in order to get access to card
machines, so please be vigilant and make sure that you
always know where your card machine is and who has
access to it. You should also make sure that you keep your
supervisor cards safe.
Keep your imprinter safe
If you have a manual imprinter in your box as a back-up then
lock this away somewhere safe, as it can also be used to take
card payments.
If you’d like to know more about data security, please visit
barclaycard.co.uk/pcidss
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