1. EFT Services. If approved,
you may conduct anyone or more of the EFT services offered by the
Credit Union.
a. Ecusta Home Banking Electronic/PC EFTs. If we approve
the Ecusta Home Banking electronic/PC access service for your accounts,
a separate PIN (Personal Identification Number) will be assigned to
you. You must use your PIN (Personal Identification Number) along
with your account number to access your accounts. At the present time,
you may use the Ecusta Home Banking access service to:
· Transfer funds from your
share, share draft, Premium Plus or Money Market accounts.
· Obtain balance information for your share, share draft,
Premium Plus or Money Market accounts.
· Make loan payments from your share, share draft, Premium
Plus or Money Market accounts.
Your accounts can be accessed under
the Ecusta Home Banking electronic/PC access service via personal
computer. Ecusta Home Banking service will be available for your
convenience twenty-four (24) hours per day. This service may be
interrupted for a short time each day for data processing. We reserve
the right to refuse any transaction which would draw upon insufficient
funds, exceed a credit limit, lower an account below a required
balance, or otherwise require us to increase our required reserve
on the account. All checks are payable to you as a primary member
and will be mailed to your address of record. We may set other limits
on the amount of any transaction, and you will be notified of those
limits. We may refuse to honor any transaction for which you do
not have sufficient available verified funds. The service will discontinue
if no transaction is entered after numerous unsuccessful attempts
to enter a transaction, and there may be limits on the duration
of each access.
· There is no limit to the
number of inquiries, transfers, or withdrawal requests you may
make in anyone day.
· There is a limit of transactions per access and certain
limits on the account history information available-
· See Section 2 for transfer limitations that may apply
to these transactions.
b. Electronic Check Conversion/Electronic Returned Check Fees.
If you pay for something with a check or share draft you may
authorize your check or share draft to be converted to an electronic
fund transfer. You may also authorize merchants to electronically
debit your account for returned check fees. You are considered
to have authorized these electronic funds transfers if you complete
the transaction after being told (orally or by a notice posted
or sent to you) that the transfer may be processed electronically
or if you sign a written authorization.
2. Transfer Limitations. For all Premium
Plus accounts, no more than six (6) preauthorized, automatic, or
telephone transfers and withdrawals may be made from these accounts
to another account of yours or to a third party in any month and
no more than three (3} of these six (6) may be made by check, draft
or access card to a third party. If you exceed these limitations,
your account may be subject to a fee or be closed.
3. Conditions of EFT Services.
a. Security of Access Code. You
may use one or more access codes with your electronic funds transfers.
The access codes issued to you are for your security purposes. Any
codes issued to you are confidential and should not be disclosed
to third parties. You are responsible for safekeeping your access
codes. You agree not to disclose or otherwise make your access codes
available to anyone not authorized to sign on your accounts. If
you authorize anyone to use your access codes, that authority shall
continue until you specifically revoke such authority by notifying
the Credit Union. You understand that any joint owner you authorize
to use an access code may withdraw or transfer funds from any of
your accounts. If you fail to maintain the security of these access
codes and the Credit Union suffers a loss, we may terminate your
EFT services immediately.
b. Joint Accounts. If any of your accounts accessed under
this Agreement are joint accounts, all joint owners, including any
authorized users, shall be bound by this Agreement and, alone and
together, shall be responsible for all EFT transactions to or from
any share and share draft or loan accounts as provided in this Agreement
Each joint account owner, without the consent of any other account
owner, may and hereby is authorized by every other joint account
owner to, make any transaction permitted under this Agreement Each
joint account owner is authorized to act for the other account owners,
and the Credit Union may accept orders and instructions regarding
any EFT transaction on any account from any joint account owner.
4. Fees and Charges. There
are certain charges for electronic funds transfer services. From
time to time, the charges may be changed. We will notify you of
any changes as required by applicable law.
· Monthly Home Banking
- FREE or with Bill Pay $3.00 monthly.
5. Member Liability. You are
responsible for all EFT transaction you authorize. If you permit
someone else to use an EFT service, your Card or your access code,
you are responsible for any transactions they authorize or conduct
on any of your accounts.
Tell us AT ONCE if you believe your card or access code has been
lost or stolen or if you believe someone has used your Card or access
code or otherwise accessed your accounts without your authority.
Telephoning is the best way of keeping your possible losses down.
You could lose all the money in your account. If you tell us within
two (2) business days, you can lose not more than $50 if someone
uses your access code without your permission. If you do not tell
us within two (2) business days after you learn of the loss or theft
of your access code and we can prove that we could have stopped
someone from using your access code without your permission if you
had told us, you could lose as much as $500. Also, if your statement
shows transfers that you did not make, tell us at once. If you do
not tell us within sixty (60) days after the statement was mailed
to you, you may not get back any money lost after the sixty (60)
days if we can prove that we could have stopped someone from making
the transfers if you had told us in time. If a good reason (such
as a hospital stay) kept you from telling us, we will extend the
time periods. If you believe that your access code has been lost
or stolen or that someone has transferred or may transfer money
from your account without your permission, call:
Toll Free (800) 642-7284
Local (828) 884-7284
Fax (828) 884-2984
Or write to:
Ecusta Credit Union
PO Box 910
Pisgah Forest, NC 28768
6. Right to Receive Documentation.
· Periodic Statements.
Transfers and withdrawals made through any electronic/PC transactions
will be recorded on your periodic statement. You will receive
a statement monthly unless there is no transaction in a particular
month. In any case, you will receive a statement at least quarterly.
7. Account Information Disclosure.
We will disclose information to third parties about your account
or the transfers you make:
· As necessary to complete transfers;
· To verify the existence of sufficient funds to cover
specific transactions upon the request of a third party, such
as a credit bureau or merchant;
· To comply with government agency or court orders;
or
· If you give us your written permission.
8. Business Days. Our business
days are Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
9. Credit Union Liability for
Failure to Make Transfers. If we do not complete a transfer
to or from your account on time or in the correct amount according
to our agreement with you, we may be liable for your losses or damages.
However, we will not be liable for direct or consequential damages
in the following events:
· If, through no fault of
ours, there is not enough money in your accounts to complete the
transaction, if any funds in your accounts necessary to complete
the transaction are held as uncollected funds pursuant to our
Funds Availability Policy, or if the transaction involves a loan
request exceeding your credit limit.
· If you used your access code in an incorrect manner.
If circumstances beyond our control (such as fire, flood, or power
failure) prevent the transaction.
· If the money in your account is subject to legal process
or other claim.
· If funds in your account are pledged as collateral or
frozen because of a delinquent loan.
· If the electronic transfer is not completed as a result
of your willful or negligent use of your access code or any EFT
facility for making such transfers.
· If the telephone or computer equipment you use to conduct
audio response or electronic/PC transactions is not working properly
and you know or should have known about the breakdown when you
started the transaction.
· Any other exceptions as established by the Credit Union.
10. Notices. All notices from
us will be effective when we have mailed them or delivered them
to your last known address in the Credit Union's records. Notices
from you will be effective when received by the Credit Union at
the address specified in this Agreement. We reserve the right to
change the terms and conditions upon which this service is offered.
We will mail notice to you at least twenty-one (21) days before
the effective date of any change. Use of this service is subject
to existing regulations governing the Credit Union account and any
future changes to those regulations.
11. Billing Errors. In case of errors or questions about
electronic funds transfers from your share and share draft accounts,
telephone us at the following number or send us a written notice
to the following address as soon as you can. We must hear from you
no later than sixty (60) days after we sent the FIRST statement
on which the problem appears. Call us at:
Toll Free (800) 642-7284
Local (828) 884-7283
Fax (828) 884-2984
Or write to:
Ecusta Credit Union
PO Box 910
Pisgah Forest, NC 28768
· Tell us your name and account
number.
· Describe the electronic transfer you are unsure about,
and explain as clearly as you can why you believe the Credit Union
has made an error or why you need more information.
· Tell us the dollar amount of the suspected error.
If you tell us orally, we may require that you send us your complaint
or question in writing within ten (10) business days.
We will tell you the results of
our investigation within ten (10)* business days after we hear
from you and will correct any error promptly. If we need more
time, however, we may take up to forty-five (45)** days to investigate
your complaint or question. If we decide to do this, we will credit
your account within ten (10)* business days for the amount you
think is in error, so that you will have the use of the money
during the time it takes us to complete our investigation. If
we ask you to put your complaint or question in writing and we
do not receive it within ten (10) business days, we may not credit
your account. We will tell you the results within three (3) business
days of completing our investigation. If we decide that there
was no error, we will send you a written explanation. You may
ask for copies of the documents that we used in our investigation.
* If you give notice of an error
within thirty (30) days after you make the first deposit to your
account, we will have twenty (20) business days instead of ten (10)
business days.
** If you give notice of an error within thirty (30) days after
you make the first deposit to your account, notice of an error involving
a point of sale transaction, or notice of an error involving a transaction
initiated outside the U.S. its possessions and territories, we will
have ninety (90) days instead of forty- five (45) days to investigate.
12. Termination of EFT Services. You may terminate this Agreement
or any EFT service under this Agreement at any time by notifying
us in writing and stopping your use of your Card and any access
code. You must return all Cards to the Credit Union. You also agree
to notify any participating merchants that authority to make bill
payment transfers has been revoked. We may also terminate this Agreement
at any time by notifying you orally or in writing. If we terminate
this Agreement, we may notify any participating merchants making
preauthorized debits or credits to any of your accounts that this
Agreement has been terminated and that we will not accept any further
preauthorized transaction instructions. We may also program our
computer not to accept your Card or access code for any EFT service.
Whether you or the Credit Union terminates this Agreement, the termination
shall not affect your obligations under this Agreement for any EFT's
made prior to termination.
13. Governing Law. This Agreement is governed by the Bylaws
of the Credit Union, federal laws and regulations the laws and regulations
of the state of North Carolina and local clearinghouse rules, as
amended from time to time. Any disputes regarding this Agreement
shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the court of the county
in which the Credit Union is located.
14. Enforcement. You are liable to us for any loss, cost
or expenses we incur resulting from your failure to follow this
Agreement. You authorize us to deduct any such loss, costs or expenses
from your account without prior notice to you. If we bring a legal
action to collect any amount due under or to enforce this Agreement,
we shall be entitled, subject to applicable law, to payment of reasonable
attorney's fees and costs, including fees on any appeal, bankruptcy
proceedings, and any post judgement collection actions.
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