All payments made by credit or debit card are processed through Alpha Bank's Alpha e-Commerce secure online payment platform.   The platform uses TLS 1.1 encryption with a 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protocol to ensure the secure transmission of payment information. Encryption is a method of encoding data so that it can only be decoded by the intended recipient using the appropriate decryption key.   For more information, please visit: http://www.alpha.gr/e-Commerce.