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Means of Payment and Security

1. Full payment with credit card

We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express for payment using a secure and encrypted connection. To make a reservation online we require full payment. When using a Debit or Credit card, daily balance limitations may be imposed by your bank. Prior to making your reservation please make sure that the maximum is not less than the balance due or the reservation cannot be confirmed.

2. Payment by Phone

Complete your reservation and make payment with a credit card by contacting us directly by phone. In this way we can split the payments so that your bank authorized the transaction.

Security in the Payment

1. VeriSign Certificate

All charges will appear as BPUSA on your credit card statement. BPUSA is owned by Grupo Pinero and has been independantly certified by VeriSign. This means that experts in credit card transaction security from an outside independent company not related to BPUSA or Grupo Pinero, have tested, confirmed and approved or our encrypted protocol of transmitting information; which guarantees confidentiality when sending your data.

2. Pages with the padlock icon = confidentiality

hen accessing the web pages that request personal information, the icon of a padlock will appear at the bottom of the browser window, as shown below with examples of Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0

This signifies that the web browser recognizes these windows as secure areas and that the data exchanged with Bahia Principe Clubs and Resorts by way of this conduit is secure from being seen by third parties. The use of an encrypted protocol (SSL, Secure Sockets Layer) protects the information provided.

By practice, the data is automatically coded and can only be decoded by the recipient. All entities with whom we colaborate use this protocol for payments, gauranteeing maximum security with the handling of your data. Which is why confidentiality is ensured: of the data requested we only register what is necessary to make the reservation effective, the remainder received as encryped data by the bank entity.

3. HTTPS = SECURE AREA

The security of www.bahia-principe.com can also be recognized by viewing the address bar of your browser: once entering these web pages where personal data is requested, the address changes from http://www.bahia-principe.com to https://www.bahia-principe.com . This allows you to verify that you have accessed the secure conduit of payment which uses the SSL protocol (reflected by appearance of the S in the web adderess).