Security Statement
All data handled by Haringey Council must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.
- Principle 7 of the Act states - "Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data".
Haringey Council takes its duty to protect personal information belonging to the public which it serves very seriously; therefore the levels of security used to take your payment are amongst the most stringent on the Web.
All of the information entered into the form is encrypted before it is transmitted between your computer and ours.
Your credit or debit card details are also stored in an encrypted format to prevent any unauthorised access.
Haringey Council’s IT section recently became the second Local Authority to achieve BS7799 certification for security (please see external link to their website below).
We will only use your card details for the payment you authorise. We will not disclose your card details to any third parties other than the bank which processes them for payment.
There is less risk of fraud to a customer making a credit or debit card payment on a properly secured web page, than any other method of credit or debit card payment.
How can you tell if a web page is properly secured?
The key to web page security is known as an ‘SSL certificate’, and can be identified by the yellow padlock symbol which indicates that the company has been independently checked to make sure they are who they say they are. Secured sites will also have 'https' in front of the web address, instead of 'http'.
If you double-click on the padlock, details of Haringey Council’s secure payments certificate can be viewed. The certificate was issued to Haringey Council by Thawte, and their details and information on the SSL scheme can be viewed at their website (please see external links below).
Useful External Links
The following links are not part of the Haringey Council web site. Please read our legal notice before using these links.
