Keeping membership records that include personal and financial information secure is an important responsibility. We understand you have placed your trust in us and we take this responsibility very seriously. The Access ACS systems are protected, so that your information remains secure.

How we protect your security.
  1. Passwords
    • All users must sign in with an id and password before they can get to any data.
    • The administrator creates the staff user accounts and sets up their passwords. Staff can then change them.
    • When members sign up for the first time through the web site, they must enter their first name, last name, suffix (if they have one) and email address. All of this must match the information you have in your database. The member is then sent an email with their id and password. This keeps people from being able to go in and sign up as someone else, since the email would go to the actual member in the record, not the person trying to sign in.
  2. Hardware and Software Security
    • All transactions on Access ACS use encryption technology such as Secure Socket Layer (ssl) to transmit information between you, your members, and Access ACS.
    • Firewalls and intrusions detection block unauthorized access by individuals.
    • Backups are done regularly and stored offsite.
  3. Online Payment Processing
      In an attempt to combat increases in credit card fraud, Visa, MasterCard, and other major credit cards got together and defined jointly published standards for securing credit card information. These standards, called the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards, define the best practices for handling, storing, and transmitting credit card information.

      Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) is designed to ensure that all merchants that store, process, or transmit Visa cardholder data, protect it properly. To achieve CISP compliance, merchants and service providers must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

      To become CISP compliant, vendors must go through a rigorous audit to meet the stringent requirements. We chose ServiceU as our processor because they have passed this audit. In some cases, they exceeded it. One such requirement is to have a quarterly network scan performed by a qualified scanning vendor. ServiceU exceeds this requirement with nightly scans performed by ScanAlert.

      ServiceU provides the processing of credit card information and ACH processing with your merchant provider. By working with ServiceU, your constituents' credit card and bank account information does not go through the ACS databases at all. This information is entered into screens that go directly into ServiceU's systems and are kept secure there.

      ACS Technologies has worked with ServiceU to integrate the ServiceU credit card handling screens into our product. ServiceU gathers the sensitive data, stores it, and processes it through the payment gateway and merchant account. And because ServiceU is CISP compliant, you can be assured that your data is kept secure.


If you have additional questions or concerns regarding security within Access ACS please contact Sales.