Secure Shopping

In asking for your business, we're asking you to trust us with sensitive information. We take that responsibility seriously.

When you shop at Euro4x4parts.com, you'll be using the Paybox System. Thanks to the technology employed and the absence of any printed record of your credit card number, it is actually safer to pay on sites using the Paybox System than in the majority of your everyday transactions.

With the Paybox System, every element of the payment system between the purchaser and the bank is entirely encrypted (using SSL) in combination with standard electronic banking protocol.

Unencoded information related to the order and the credit card number never circulates on the internet.

• The credit card number is never printed on paper (invoice, receipt or elsewhere).
• The seller (Euro4x4parts.com) is not informed of the credit card number.
• Paybox System does not store credit card numbers on its server.

No one has either digital or physical access to the credit card number.

The Stages of Security

When you are ready to make your payment, you will be transferred from our server to the secure Paybox System server, which is connected to an electronic banking network:

1. You will be transferred to an SSL-encrypted payment page.
2. After you enter your card number, the payment page submits a request for authorization. The connection between the purchaser and the Paybox System server is established using HTTPS (SSL-encrypted protocol), which encrypts the entirety of the information exchanged. This protection protects the data sent by internet and guarantees that the credit card number cannot be intercepted by a third party. The Paybox System banner page confirms your purchase -- you'll see the name of the seller (guaranteeing that the the sale was authenticated).
3. Once the credit card number has passed a first level of verification (Luhn key, oppositions, etc.), the Paybox System server forwards the authorization request to the bank with which the seller is affiliated. This is carried out by TRANSPAC, using standard electronic banking protocols.
4. The bank authorization center returns either an authorization number or a refusal. If the payment is accepted, Paybox System displays the payment receipt on the purchaser's screen and e-mails the receipt to the purchaser and the seller. The credit card number is never sent to the seller.
5. You are then automatically redirected to the seller's server, where you can continue your visit.

Paybox Services has developed a process that makes it possible to verify in real time the behavior of the card bearer, to avoid the use of the server to test automatically generated credit card numbers, or other types of attacks:

• search for valid card numbers by increment, derivation or mask
• multiple submissions with different expiration dates
• submissions from multiple IP addresses

Verify your secure connection when you pay

While using a secure connection, you will see a closed padlock at the bottom of your browser window.

The beginning of the web page address (http://www...) in the address bar at the top of the window becomes https://www... The "s" which follows "http" is your guarantee that the communication is securely encrypted.

Businesses are identified by both Paybox System and a bank

Any business using the Paybox System to handle online sales is identified by both Paybox Services and by a bank. Because each business is identified by a "Remote Sales Contract" with a bank, the purchaser is protected.