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 three to four 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, 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 and supervisor code 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.
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