Payment Card Information (PCI) Compliance

Alta Resources is Level 1 PCI Compliant - meaning your customer data is guarded with the highest level of security. Alta has taken extra steps to ensure your customers' payment card data is being kept safe throughout every transaction, and that they - and you - can have confidence that they're protected against the pain and cost of data breaches. Alta processes nearly 10 million credit cards annually on behalf of its client partners.

Alta Resources is proud to be recognized by Visa as a Tier 1 Service Provider for the Cardholder Information Security Information Program (CISP). Service Providers are organizations that process, store, or transmit Visa cardholder data on behalf of Visa members, merchants, or other service providers.

The Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) established a set of 12 industry-wide requirements designed to protect sensitive information from being compromised. These requirements, which also include more than 175 sub-requirements, are directed at all businesses that store, process or transmit cardholder information. Compliance in the CISP demonstrates Alta Resources' commitment to protecting the confidentiality and integrity of cardholder and personal data.

Alta's commitment to maintaining compliance with the CISP is an on-going process that requires extensive measures to safeguard sensitive cardholder information. Visit Visa's website and find more information on the CISP and PCI compliance.

Service Providers are categorized in the following three tiers, with the Tier 1 Provider Level considered the most comprehensive:

Provider Level	Description
1	All VisaNet processors (member and Nonmember) and all payment gateways
2	Any service provider that is not in Level 1 and stores, processes, or transmits more than 1,000,000 Visa accounts/transactions annually
3	Any service provider that is not in Level 1 and stores, processes, or transmits fewer than 1,000,000 Visa accounts/transactions annually.