The Yoco Card Machines are PCI compliant and adhere to EMV certification.
PCI Compliance
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a proprietary information security standard for organisations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB.
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EMV Certification
EMVCo exists to facilitate worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions. It accomplishes this by managing and evolving the EMV® Specifications and related testing processes. This includes, but is not limited to, card and terminal evaluation, security evaluation, and management of interoperability issues. Today there are EMV Specifications based on contact chip, contactless chip, common payment application (CPA), card personalisation, and tokenisation.
This work is overseen by EMVCo’s six-member organisations—American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay, and Visa—and supported by dozens of banks, merchants, processors, vendors and other industry stakeholders who participate as EMVCo Associates.
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How do these standards apply to Yoco?
All Yoco card machines are PCI compliant and have EMV Certification.
All data is securely encrypted in the card machine.
Yoco card machines are tamper proof - if tampered with, the card machine's chipboard will fry and it will be rendered useless.
Financial security measures at Yoco
What is transaction monitoring at Yoco?
For Yoco, transaction monitoring is a key part of the regulated AML (Anti-Money Laundering) process. It’s a legal requirement that forces financial institutions to monitor the flow of money.
Why is transaction monitoring important?
Money laundering involves taking criminal proceeds and disguising their origins to appear legitimate. Anti-money laundering (AML) refers to the measures financial institutions (like Yoco) take to comply with regulations, and to actively monitor for and report suspicious activities.
Money laundering often accompanies activities like smuggling, illegal arms sales, embezzlement, insider trading, bribery and computer fraud schemes. It’s also common with organised crime including human, arms or drug trafficking. Anti-money laundering is also closely related to counter-financing of terrorism (CFT).
Your data and Yoco
Our commitment:
We are committed to taking steps to protect your privacy when you use our App and implementing business practices that comply with all relevant legislation, including the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 "POPIA".
Information we collect about you:
We generally collect, store and use the following information: your first name(s), surname, address, phone numbers, e-mail address, IP address or cookie information, location information, demographic information including your age and gender, health-related information, information from your browser including your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers and any other information which we reasonably need to perform our obligations in terms of the agreement with you when you purchase or use our services. When you use our services, we also record the details of your transactions.
The information you provide or we collect is used for:
the purpose of contracting with you in general, enabling you to accept payments securely, in compliance with applicable regulations;
using our POS solution;
responding to your requests for certain information, products or services;
customising the content you see;
communicating with you about new offers;
internal reporting and development; and
any other purpose for which you give your permission, or where we are otherwise permitted or required in terms of the law to use such personal information, or for some purpose in the public interest.
Retention of information:
We retain information in accordance with the required retention periods by law or for legitimate business purposes. We will only retain your information for the purposes explicitly set out in this policy. We may keep information indefinitely in a de-identified format for statistical purposes. Our privacy policy also applies when we retain your information.
Quality and access to your information:
We want to ensure that your information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove any information that you think is inaccurate, by sending an email to [email protected]