Quarterly and Annual Monitoring Requirements

Directive Statement

All departments that accept credit or debit cards as a form of payment must perform certain processes on a quarterly and annual basis to ensure ongoing compliance.

Reason for Directive

Credit card merchants at the University of Florida are required to follow strict procedures to protect customers’ credit card data.  Merchant Services must ensure continuing compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) as well as the UF Credit Card Merchant Policy.

Who Must Comply?

All University departments whose personnel store, process or transmit cardholder information. This also applies to units that outsource the processing of payment card information to third party vendors.

Procedure & Best Practice

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