Our hostels are brought to you in
association with Hostelworld.
View Hostelworld's Security statement:
Paying By Credit Card On The
Internet
When you use your credit card to buy goods or
make reservations over the Internet, you have
the same concerns as you would when using your
credit card over the telephone:
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Every day you use your credit card in shops and restaurants
and give it to cashiers and waiters, you also use it
frequently to book tickets or to pay for items over
the phone. Using your credit card number on the Internet
is no more dangerous than the any of the above situations.
In fact, it is often more secure to give out your account
number over the Internet, because many sites work with
your browser software to encode your transaction so
if outside parties intercept it, they won't be able
to read it.
Hostelworld.com recommends that you keep up to date
with the latest browsers to ensure maximum security
for your online transactions.
Hostelworld Site Security
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Site Encryption:
HostelWorld utilizes a technology called
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). SSL is a set of rules
followed by computers connected to the Internet.
- These
rules include encryption, which guards against
eavesdropping,
- Data
integrity, which ensures that your communications
are not tampered with during transmission and
- authentication,
which verifies that the party who receives your
communication are who they claim to be.
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How Encryption Works:
There are two levels of encryption: 40-bit and
128-bit. With 40-bit encryption, there are billions
of possible keys to decipher the coded information,
and only one of them works. Someone intercepting
the information would have to find the right key
- a nearly impossible task.
With 128-bit encryption, there are 300 billion
trillion times as many keys as with 40-bit encryption.
It is virtually impossible for an unauthorized
party to find the right key, even if they are
equipped with the best computers.
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HostelWorld - One Of The Most Secure
Ways To Book Online.
Hostelworld process thousands of bookings every day,
these are from customers of every nationality travelling
all over the world. We have been processing online hostel
reservations since 1999 and have always placed the security
of our internet transactions and our customers credit
card details as our top priority. We will continue to
offer our customers the highest level of security available
for online transactions and hope this reassures you
when you make your reservations with us.
Read Hostelworld's privacy
and security statement
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