PCI Compliance
Your Donors’ Credit Card Data is Safe—and You Are, Too
When you use Greater Giving solutions to accept credit card payment information and process credit card payments, you can trust us to keep that credit card information safe and secure to protect your donors.
How do we do it? Greater Giving encrypts your donors’ credit card data to protect and secure it while the transaction is processed. This is standard practice for processing credit card payments via the Web.
However, to us, encryption is only the first step. We go beyond standard practice by complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, and protecting your donors’ payment data after the transaction has been processed.
The PCI Data Security Standards were developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking, and other threats and take care of other security vulnerabilities and threats. These standards provide the most comprehensive single framework to address all the security, data integrity and privacy concerns associated with processing electronic payment data.
Greater Giving’s technology and processes are reviewed quarterly to ensure PCI compliance standards, along with an annual on-site audit by a PCI accredited 3rd party. That makes Greater Giving a Level 1 vendor, the highest, most secure level for PCI compliance.
What does this mean to you?
- By using a PCI-compliant vendor, you don’t have to worry about PCI compliance for your credit card processing needs, thus saving you money, time, and stress.
- PCI standards change as the industry changes and as new threats emerge. Because Greater Giving maintains compliance with these standards, our requirements will continue to evolve to protect you from new threats, giving you peace of mind.
How Greater Giving Makes Payments Secure
PCI level 1 certification ensures that the following state-of-the-art tools are used:
- SSL certificates and database encryption
- Dedicated firewall equipment that is continuously upgraded and monitored
- File tampering monitoring
- Intrusion detection systems
- Logging and alerting systems that call human operators immediately on suspicious activities
In addition, Greater Giving developed a dynamic, rule-based fraud prevention agent to make your donations most secure.
On top of that, Greater Giving’s redundant hardware, power, Internet connections, and dual data centers create the fail safes to keep our systems up, running, and secure.
By complying with PCI standards, we ensure that your donor’s payment data is protected from compromise, and allow you to focus more completely on your cause.
For more information about Greater Giving’s PCI Compliance, click here.