Security

Q. How secure are my online transactions when I use the Wells Fargo SecureSource^sm Payments service?

A. The Wells Fargo SecureSource Payments service integrates several fraud prevention measures to maximize the security of your private online information.  These measures include but are not limited to:

• Data Integrity

Data Integrity involves ensuring the consistency of data during transmission from the user's computer to Wells Fargo.  Specifically, data integrity involves preventing unauthorized creation, alteration or destruction of data from unauthorized sources through the Internet.  For any eCommerce transaction, it is essential that the Wells Fargo SecureSource Payments service receive the exact transaction data as supplied by the initiator (Seller) of the transaction.  It is critical that a financial transaction be completed exactly as originally intended.  As the Seller, you must also be assured that the data you received was properly authorized and was not tampered with during transmission.

• Ongoing protection of your transaction information

24 hours a day, 7 days a week — the Wells Fargo SecureSource Payments service utilizes sophisticated data integrity checks that control the risk of data alteration during transmission to identify any data that has been altered.

• Encryption

Encryption is a way to control data integrity.  Encryption makes it difficult for an unauthorized party to read transaction data.  Before a change to data can be made, the data must first be decrypted.  In the event data is altered inadvertently or due to a transmission failure or by unauthorized parties, the fact that the data was altered can be identified and the transaction rejected since the integrity is suspect.

• Maximum security that protects your online income

When the Wells Fargo SecureSource Payments service identifies alterations to transaction data, the service can reject transactions so your customers can re-initiate purchases— there is no monetary impact to your online business, even when the exact change to the data cannot be identified.

• Internal System Controls

Internal System Controls over the systems that use the data are implemented to ensure the integrity of data while it is being processed by the Wells Fargo SecureSource Payments service.