talabat, the leading food delivery and q-commerce platform in the Middle East and North Africa, is pleased to announce that they have achieved Level 1 Certification in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), a set of security standards established in 2004 to protect online credit and debit card transactions from data theft and fraud.

Talabat now holds PCI-DSS Level 1 Certification in all of its eight operational markets, including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, making it the region’s first food and q-commerce delivery platform to have achieved this.

“The PCI-DSS Level 1 Certification marks a great milestone for us as we are proud to be the first and only food and q-commerce delivery platform in the MENA region to have achieved this certification.”

“At talabat, we are constantly working to protect customers’ transactions on the platform, and this certification further reiterates this commitment, ensuring that customers will continue to feel confident in using the talabat platform which has the highest security standards in the industry” Khaled Rashad, Chief Technical Officer at talabat said. 

Here Is What You Need To Know

• PCI-DSS is a global industry compliance and security standard for protecting cardholder data, and it is one of the most stringent security standards available. It is applicable to every organization that processes, transmits, or stores credit card information.

• talabat has established relationships with a number of reputable, PCI-DSS compliant payment service providers, to whom transactional data is delivered each time a customer makes an order payment and is heavily safeguarded.

A Look At What Talabat Does

Talabat was founded in 2004 by a group of entrepreneurs with the goal of making meal delivery simple for everyone.

The company claims to be the largest food delivery and shopping platform in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with operations in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Oman, Bahrain, and Jordan.

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Talabat was purchased by Delivery Hero in 2015. Delivery Hero is one of the most popular online meal ordering and delivery platforms in the world. It has 500,000+ restaurant partners and operates in over 40 countries across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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