AdDogs.com presently accepts payment via Amazon Payments or PayPal. Between these two options, you have the flexibility to pay via any major credit card or a direct debit from a bank account.

For those not familiar with these methods, they’re both highly reputable companies, each in its own way quite skilled in the process of handling electronic commerce. They’re not identical in form or function however.

If customers choose to use Amazon Payments, they must first have an account set up with Amazon. Many people have such accounts, as Amazon has distinguished itself over the past decade as the leading electronic merchant. They’re really quite good at handling payments, and they offer buyer protection programs which can be reviewed at their site.

PayPal is likewise a widely used service, but differs in that it’s a direct payment method: rather than charging a purchase to your PayPal account, as is the case with Amazon, you simply make a payment in which PayPal transfers money from either your PayPal account balance, your bank account, or the credit card of your choosing. All those choices are made available to you when you log in to your PayPal account. An additional and important difference is that you can make a PayPal payment without logging into your PayPal account, or without having a PayPal account at all.

Given the alternatives of Amazon and PayPal for payment processing, we at AdDogs have made the conscious decision to avoid ever being in possession of any customer’s credit card or bank account information. We don’t even want this information, let alone to store it in our system. Even though we employ standard data system protection and monitoring, we want to ensure that in the event of a breach, no sensitive information about any of our customers can be stolen from our site.

As of the data of this writing, Monster.com is in the recent news, the victim of their own massive data breach.

We don’t want to be in that position, and we don’t want to put our customers in that position.

And that’s why we choose to rely on well-known and respected companies like Amazon and PayPal to provide those services for our customers.

If you have any concerns about the payment process here at AdDogs.com, please feel free to contact us, and we’ll be happy to discuss them with you.