Every on-line transaction made within Optima Fitness is transmitted across the Internet using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. This industry standard method ensures that information sent from your browser is scrambled whilst in transit and decoded when it arrives on our server. You are far safer using your credit card within Optima Fitness than you are in a restaurant in your local high street. We take the issue of security very seriously and have taken every step possible to protect you. In accordance with the Privacy & Electronic Communications Act passed into law 11 Dec 03 We do not send random marketing emails to personal email addresses and we conform with the requirments of the Data Protection Act 1998. Our servers sit behind a state of the art hardware firewall and the computer that handles the card services is a bastion host of the ishop mall servers, and not accessible from the Internet. We have employed the services of one of the countries' leading security experts who regularly monitors and updates our systems.