Many websites today still only use regular HTTP, which is the word you see at the very left of the address bar.
Unfortunately, HTTP, whilst great in the early days of the internet, is now no longer sufficient.
This rings particularly true given that all of us seem to be surfing, buying and booking more online with every passing year.
Clearly, this has not gone unnoticed with all the bad actors out there; spammers, hackers, all kinds of scammers are constantly on the look-out for traffic that can be intercepted, so they can steal data, personal details, banking details, anything sent over an unsecured connection.
Travelers are especially vulnerable, because when we travel, we depend on public Wifi networks at hotels, bars, etc. The last thing we want is for our payment details to be intercepted whilst we're booking a hotel room, a flight.
This is why we have opted to bullet-proof our website with HTPPS protection. By supporting HTTPS, our website protects your privacy and ensures your online submissions never fall into the wrong hands.
You can verify our site is secure by checking that you see the HTTPS to the left of the address bar. You can further confirm the site is safe by spotting the little padlock icon just after the HTTPS.
HTTPS
Data sent using HTTPS is secured via Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS), which provides comprehensive protection in the following ways:
1. Encryption. By encrypting the information that you submit when you fill in and send a website form, this information is kept secure from eavesdroppers. This means that whatever it is that you submit by our online forms, you can be certain that it's is inaccessible to any third party. Only the sender - you - and the receiver - that's us - get to see your information.
2. Data integrity. information you submit cannot be modified or corrupted during transfer, wether deliberately or otherwise, without being detected.
3. Authentication. Since so-called man-in-the-middle attacks are ruled out with HTTPS, you now know that your information is kept safe. And we - the website merchant - know that the information is truly from the one that sent it. .
Good to know!
For more details about the security of our website, you can click on the padlock icon in the address bar.
