Merrick Bank Unsecured Agreement
Merrick Bank Unsecured Agreement
THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS AN ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER. PLEASE SEE THE
AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE DISPUTES AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER SECTION BELOW FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS.
1. Welcome to Merrick Bank and to Your Card Agreement.
This document and the Pricing Appendix that came with
your Card are your Agreement with us. Please keep this
Agreement (including the Pricing Appendix as well as any
future change-in-terms notices you may receive) in a safe
place with your other important papers. The words used in
this Agreement are defined and explained in the Glossary
and Definitions section below. You may make Purchases
anywhere the Card is honored, so long as you do not exceed
your available credit limit and are otherwise in compliance
with this Agreement. The Bank is not responsible for the
failure of any merchant or any other party to accept or
honor your Card. Unless applicable law otherwise requires,
if you make a Purchase on your Account and the merchant
discloses a policy such as no returns, no refund, no
return or credit without receipt, as is, store credit only,
all sales final or similar statements, you will be bound by
the merchants policy. You must acquaint yourself with the
merchants return policies before you make your Purchase.
For repeat, recurring or automatic Purchases, we may rely, to
the maximum degree permitted by law, upon any reasonable
proof presented to us by the merchant that you authorized
such purchases and authorized being billed repeatedly for
them. If you have authorized repeat, recurring or automatic
Purchases and we replace your Card due to its being lost,
stolen or at risk for fraud, you agree to notify the merchant of
the change in your account number.
You may obtain Cash Advances from many locations where
the MasterCard or Visa logo is displayed (depending on
whether your Card is a MasterCard or a Visa card) or
from an ATM that displays such a logo, so long as you do
not exceed your available total credit limit and your available
Cash Advance credit limit and are otherwise in compliance
with this Agreement. A Cash Advance Transaction Fee will
be charged to your Account each time you obtain a Cash
Advance.
You must sign the back of the Card before you use it for
the first time. BY SIGNING THE CARD OR USING IT TO
MAKE A PURCHASE OR TO OBTAIN A CASH ADVANCE,
YOU AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE PROVISION BELOW
RELATING TO FUTURE CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT OR
THE PRICING APPENDIX.
We may change the terms of this Agreement or the Pricing
Appendix at any time. We may change or remove any of the
terms and conditions of, or add new terms or conditions to,
this Agreement or the Pricing Appendix, including without
limitation by increasing existing fees, margins and rates, and
adding new fees and charges, whether or not the Account
has been cancelled, suspended or closed to new Account
transactions, and, to the extent allowed by applicable law,
any changes will apply to your entire Account Balance even
though Purchases, Cash Advances or other transactions
occurring prior to the date of the change may be part of the
Account Balance.
At any time, you may request that we mail you a copy of
this Agreement in its then-current form, or you may review
it on the Internet at www.merrickbank.com/agreements. If
you are visually impaired, please call us at (800) 204-5936
for assistance.
2. Your Promise to Pay. You promise to pay, according to
the terms of this Agreement, all amounts owing under your
Account and this Agreement including, without limitation,
the total amount of all Purchases, Cash Advances, interest
charges and all other charges and fees described in this
Agreement. If you have requested a Card for use by someone
else, you will be responsible for that persons transactions,
including transactions for which you may not have intended
to be liable. We reserve the right to hold such person
responsible for his or her Purchases, Cash Advances and
associated interest charges and fees, but our doing so does
not relieve you of your duty to pay. Although we will send you
Billing Statements, if you do not receive a Billing Statement
you still must pay your Minimum Payment by the Payment
Due Date. If you do not receive a Billing Statement, you
must call us at (800) 204-5936 to find out your Payment
Due Date and Minimum Payment, and to advise us of your
correct mailing address. We will only mail Billing Statements
to one mailing address. With your authorization, we may
also provide your Billing Statements via email or other
electronic means. You must notify us immediately of any
change to your mailing or email address. We will only send
Billing Statements to you, and not to any third party (except
if applicable law requires otherwise). No matter where
Billing Statements are sent or when they are received, your
obligation to make timely Minimum Payments and to pay all
other amounts owed on the Account is not excused.
We may accept late or partial payments without losing any
of our rights under this Agreement. You agree not to send us
partial payments marked paid in full, without recourse, or
similar language. If you send such a payment, we may accept
it without losing any of our rights under this Agreement.
If you do not pay what you owe when it is due, or if you
otherwise violate this Agreement (including in connection
with the Deposit Account or the Banks security interest
therein), then in addition to all charges, interest, fees and
other amounts described in this Agreement you also must
pay us, or our assignee, all collection costs, legal expenses
or other expenses resulting from any and all efforts to collect
what is owed on the Account or as a result of use of the Card,
or otherwise to respond to your violation of this Agreement.
This includes all attorneys fees and arbitration or court
costs. You agree to pay reasonable attorneys fees even if the
attorney is a salaried employee of the Bank or its assignee.
3. How to Make Payments and How We Apply Them. You
must pay us in U.S. Dollars, with a check, draft or money
order drawn on a United States bank or the United States
Postal Service, or through an automated clearing house
acceptable to us in our sole discretion.
Payments received with the payment coupon and received
from the postal or other delivery service by 5:00 p.m. local
time at the payment address indicated on the most recent
Billing Statement will be posted to your Account as of that
date. If you send payments to any other address or fail to
include the payment coupon, the payment may be lost or
there may be a delay in posting the payment. Either event
could result in a Late Payment Fee and/or additional interest
charges. Please call us at (800) 204-5936 or go to
www.merrickbank.com/payments if you do not know where
to send your payment or if you wish to confirm that a
payment has been received.
Payments in excess of the Minimum Payment shown on
the most recent Billing Statement will be applied first to the
highest APR balance. In general, amounts up to the Minimum
Payment will be applied in the manner most favorable to us,
which usually will be to lower APR balances (including any
zero APR balances) before higher APR balances.
Merrick Bank processes electronic check conversions. This
means that if you send us a check we may take information
from it (including without limitation the amount, your bank
routing number, checking account number and check
number) to initiate an electronic funds transfer (EFT). An EFT
likely will clear more quickly than a check, and your checking
account even may be debited the same day we receive your
check. Please be sure you maintain sufficient funds in your
checking account when you send us a check; if there are
not sufficient funds and your bank returns the item to us
unpaid, you must pay a Returned Item Fee. With electronic
check conversion, you will not receive your cancelled check
back, but your checking account statement should provide
sufficient information about the EFT. If we are unable to
process the EFT for any reason, we may submit either your
original check or a copy of your original check to your bank
for payment and processing.
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You may not use the Account or the Card to make payments
on the Account or anyone elses account with us.
You may not use the Account or the Card to purchase illegal
items, to commit fraud, to harm anyone or to engage in any
other activity prohibited by law.
You may not use the Account or the Card to obtain Cash
Advances that exceed your available credit limit or available
Cash Advance limit.
You may not use the Card, make any Purchases or request
any Cash Advances when you or any other person obligated
on the Account is insolvent or after a bankruptcy petition
has been filed. If you use or if you let someone else use the
Account or the Card for a prohibited, improper or unlawful
purpose, or at a time when use of the Account or the Card
is not permitted, you still will be responsible for all charges
relating to such use, to the maximum degree permissible by
law. You also will be responsible for all additional amounts
or expenses the Bank, Visa or MasterCard might pay as a
result of such use, such as if the Bank, Visa or MasterCard
is sued in regard to your use of the Account or the Card. It is
your responsibility to determine if your transactions or those
that you let someone else make are lawful; neither the Bank
nor Visa nor MasterCard is responsible for determining the
legality of any transaction.
You may not use the Account or the Card for unlawful
gambling activity.
You may not use the Account or the Card to make Purchases
that exceed your available credit limit.
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