Hard Copy: The original document of a transaction, such as sales drafts, credit slips, etc.

Hologram: A laser-created photograph that creates a three-dimensional image; used as an anti-counterfeiting measure on bankcards.

Home Page: The page where a user normally enters a Web site. Also contains the major hotlinks to various features/contents of the site.

Host Computer: The central computer in a data communications system that provides the primary data processing functions, such as computation and database access.

Hot Card: A card account on which excessive use is occurring often an indication that the card (or account number) has been stolen.

Hyperlink: A hypertext connection that can take you to another document or another part of the same document. On the World Wide Web, hyperlinks appear as text or pictures that are highlighted. To follow a hyperlink, click the highlighted material.

Hypertext: A system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to be linked in multiple ways, be available at several levels of detail, and contain links to related documents.

Hypertext Mark-Up Language (HTML): The language used to write pages for the World Wide Web. This language lets the text include codes that define fonts, layout, embedded graphics, and hypertext links.

Hypertext Transfer Porotocol (HTTP): The way in which World Wide Web pages are transferred over the Internet.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secured (HTTPS): A variant of HTTP that encrypts messages for security -- using SSL (secure sockets layer) or TLS (tranport layer security).