Merrick Bank Visa
®
or MasterCard
®
Cardholder 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.
G-16688
04/17
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 merchant’s policy. You must
acquaint yourself with the merchant’s 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, we may, at our
sole discretion, notify the recipients of your
recurring or automatic Purchases, but you
agree to notify the recipients of your recurring
or automatic Purchases 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
or any daily Purchase limits, or exceed your
available Cash Advance credit limit or any
daily Cash Advance limits, 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 person’s 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 Bank’s 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,
or if there are errors or delays at the postal
service or other transmission or delivery
services, 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. Neither the postal
service nor any other money transmitter or
delivery service is Merrick’s agent, and if you
use the postal service or any other third party
to deliver your payment, you assume the risk
that those services lose it or deliver it late.
Please call us at (800) 204-5936 or go to
www.merrickbank.com/payments if you do not
know where to send your payment.
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 Payment 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.
4. You Must Make Your Minimum Payments
On Time. You may pay the New Balance
in full every month, or you can pay it in
monthly installments. If you decide to pay it in
installments, then each Billing Cycle you must
pay at least the Minimum Payment shown on
the Billing Statement by the Payment Due Date.
The Minimum Payment will be calculated as
described in the Pricing Appendix. Even if you
pay more than the Minimum Payment in one
Billing Cycle, you still must pay the full Minimum
Payment in future Billing Cycles until the entire
Account Balance is paid. Credits applied for
reversals of Purchases (for example, merchant
credits for returned or defective goods) or for
reversals of fees or interest charges do not
count toward your Minimum Payment. For
example, if the Minimum Payment is $50, you
still must pay us the full $50 by the Payment
Due Date even if you return $50 worth of goods
to a merchant where you use the Card. If the
Minimum Payment is not received on time, you
agree to pay a Late Payment Fee.
If banking regulation requires that we classify
your Account uncollectible and charge it off due
to non-payment you will be in default and the
Bank reserves the right to (1) refuse to honor
any further Purchases or Cash Advances, (2)
reduce your credit limit, (3) require payment of a
portion of your outstanding balance greater than
the Minimum Payment, (4) declare the entire
balance of your Account immediately due and
payable, and/or (5) exercise such other and
further of its rights under this Agreement or
applicable law as the Bank in its sole discretion
deems appropriate.
5. How Interest Is Calculated. We use the
Average Daily Balance method (including new
transactions) to calculate interest on your
Account. The Average Daily Balances
for Purchases and Cash Advances are
calculated separately.
To calculate the Average Daily Balances, we
start with the beginning balance for each
day in the Billing Cycle. For Purchases, the
beginning balance includes billed but unpaid
interest on Purchases, Annual Fees (including
Additional Card Fees), Late Payment Fees,
Returned Payment Fees, Over Limit Fees,
Copying Charges, Currency Conversion Charges
related to Purchases, Phone Payment Fees,
Replacement Card Fees, the Account Set-Up Fee
and Fees for Other Services. For Cash Advances,
the beginning balance includes billed but
unpaid interest on Cash Advances, Cash Advance
Transaction Fees and Currency Conversion Charges
related to Cash Advances. We then add any new
charges and subtract any payments or credits.
This gives us the daily balance for each day, except
that if the daily balance is negative, we treat it as
zero. We then add up all of the daily balances for
each balance and divide by the number of days in
the Billing Cycle. This gives us the Average Daily
Balance for each balance. The interest charged for
each balance equals the Average Daily Balance for
that balance times the applicable DPR times the
number of days in the Billing Cycle. The results are
then added together to determine the total interest
charge for the Billing Cycle. To the extent interest
comprises any part of your Average Daily Balance,
compounding of interest will occur.
Charges are added as of the date of the
transaction. If a transaction occurs in one Billing
Cycle but is not posted to your Account until the
next Billing Cycle, the transaction is added or
subtracted on the first day of the Billing Cycle in
which the transaction is posted to your Account. If
the DPR for Purchases or Cash Advances changes
during a Billing Cycle, the new DPR will take
effect as of the first day of the Billing Cycle.
6. About Periodic Rates (APRs and DPRs).
If your Account has an Introductory APR for
Purchases or Cash Advances, the Introductory
APR and the corresponding Introductory
DPR will be shown in the “Interest Rates
and Interest Charges” section of the Pricing
Appendix. Introductory APRs are fixed rates
and are not based on movements in the Prime
Rate. Introductory APRs will be in effect until
the Introductory Period End Date shown in the
“Interest Rates and Interest Charges” section of
the Pricing Appendix.
If your Account does not have an Introductory
APR for Purchases or Cash Advances, or after
the Introductory Period End Date, your APRs and
DPRs will vary. The APR for Purchases and the
APR for Cash Advances will be determined by
adding the Purchase Margin and Cash Advance
Margin shown in the “Variable Rate Information”
section of the Pricing Appendix to the Prime
Rate. The DPR is 1/365th of the corresponding
APR. However, the APRs for Purchases and
Cash Advances will never be greater than the
lesser of the Purchase or Cash Advance APR Cap
shown in the “Variable Rate Information” section
of the Pricing Appendix or the maximum rate
permitted by applicable law. The “Interest Rates
and Interest Charges” section of the Pricing
Appendix includes the APRs and “Daily Periodic
Rates” section of the Pricing Appendix includes
DPRs for Purchases and Cash Advances as of
the date indicated in the Pricing Appendix. Any
changes in your APRs and DPRs resulting from a
change in the Prime Rate during a Billing Cycle
will take effect as of the first day of the Billing
Cycle. An increase in the Prime Rate may result
in an increase in the amount of interest charged,
the Minimum Payment or both.
7. How to Avoid Paying Interest on New
Purchases. You will not be charged interest
on new Purchases during a Billing Cycle if you
paid the entire New Balance, if any, shown on
the Billing Statement on or before the Payment
Due Date.
8. About Other Interest Charges and Fees.
You agree to pay the following additional interest
charges and fees (if applicable to your Account)
in the amounts set forth in the Fees section of
the Pricing Appendix.
a. Account Set-Up Fee. If applicable, an Account
Set-Up Fee will be charged to your Account
when the Account is opened.
b. Annual Fee. If the Pricing Appendix includes
an Annual Fee, your Account will be charged an
Annual Fee as described in the “About Annual
Fees” section of this Agreement.
c. Cash Advance Transaction Fee. A Cash
Advance Transaction Fee will be charged to your
Account each time you obtain a Cash Advance.
d. Copying Charge. Your Account will be charged
$2 for each page of any copy of a Billing
Statement, sales slip or payment copy that the
Bank produces at your request, except if the
copies are produced to resolve a reported billing
error under the Fair Credit Billing Act.
e. Currency Conversion Charge. For each
Purchase or Cash Advance made in a foreign
currency, we add an additional interest charge
of 2% of the amount of the Purchase or Cash
OR PERMIT A JOINDER OF PARTIES IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT TO
ARBITRATE, EXCEPT FOR JOINDER OF ANY
JOINT APPLICANT OR OTHER AUTHORIZED
USER OF THE ACCOUNT, UNLESS BOTH YOU
AND WE CONSENT TO SUCH JOINDER IN
WRITING. BY ACCEPTING THIS ARBITRATION
AGREEMENT, YOU AGREE TO WAIVE THE
RIGHT TO INITIATE OR PARTICIPATE IN A
CLASS ACTION, REPRESENTATIVE ACTION,
PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL LITIGATION OR
CONSOLIDATED ARBITRATION RELATED TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR ACCOUNT.
The arbitrator will be required to follow relevant
law and applicable judicial precedent to arrive
at a decision and shall be empowered to
grant whatever relief would be available in
court. Where authorized by applicable law, the
arbitrator’s award may include attorneys’ fees
and other expenses. You and we both agree that
the transactions subject to this agreement to
arbitrate involve interstate commerce and
that this agreement to arbitrate shall be
governed by and enforceable under the
Federal Arbitration Act.
The cost of any arbitration proceeding shall be
divided as follows:
If you initiate arbitration, you will be
responsible for paying one half of the filing
fee, or $125, whichever is less, when the
demand for arbitration is made.
If we initiate arbitration, we will
be responsible for paying all
arbitration costs.
Regardless of who initiates the arbitration,
you will not be responsible for any
arbitration fees that exceed one half of the
filing fee, or $125, whichever is less, or the
fees that you would have incurred if the
Claim had been brought in court.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you believe the
cost of arbitration may be too burdensome, you
may seek a waiver of the filing fee under the
applicable Arbitration Rules. If you seek, but do
not qualify for such a waiver, we will consider a
written request from you to advance all or part
of the filing fee.
The arbitrator’s decision shall become final and
binding after 30 days unless any party to the
arbitration takes an appeal from the decision
by making a written request to the American
Arbitration Association. The appeal panel, which
will consist of three arbitrators, will consider
all factual and legal issues anew, will conduct
the appeal in the same manner as the initial
arbitration, and will make decisions based on
the vote of the majority. We will advance any
fees and costs required by the American
Arbitration Association to commence any
appeal. The appeal panel’s decision shall be
final and binding.
In the event of a conflict between the Arbitration
Rules and this Arbitration Agreement, this
Arbitration Agreement shall govern. This
Arbitration Agreement shall not apply to any
Claims as to which the limitations herein on
class actions or class-action or consolidated
arbitration are not permitted by applicable law. If
any other provision of this agreement to arbitrate
should be found invalid or unenforceable such a
determination shall not affect the enforceability
of the remaining provisions which shall remain
and continue in full force and effect.
You may contact the American Arbitration
Association to obtain information about
arbitration, arbitration procedures and fees by
calling the telephone number or going to the
Internet website indicated below:
American Arbitration Association
335 Madison Avenue (10th Floor)
New York, NY 10017-4626
800-778-7879
www.adr.org
RIGHT TO REJECT ARBITRATION
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REJECT THIS
AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE, BUT YOU MUST
EXERCISE THIS RIGHT PROMPTLY. If you do
not wish to be bound by this agreement to
arbitrate, you must notify us in writing within
sixty (60) days after the date your Account
is opened. You must send your request to:
Arbitration Manager, Merrick Bank, Legal
Department, P.O. Box 5000, Draper, Utah
84020-5000. The request must include
your 16-digit Account number and a clear
statement of your intent, such as “I reject the
arbitration clause in the Merrick Bank Visa
®
or MasterCard
®
Cardholder Agreement. Your
election to reject arbitration will not affect
the other terms of your Account, nor will we
close the Account as a result of your election
to reject arbitration.
25. Third-Party Legal Process Against
the Account or the Deposit Account. We
will comply with any notice of garnishment,
attachment, tax levy, injunction, restraining
order, subpoena or other legal process relating
to the Account or the Deposit Account that,
in our sole judgment, appears to be valid. If
your Account or Deposit Account becomes
involved or subject to any legal or administrative
proceeding, and we are ordered or required
to take any action relative to your Account or
Deposit Account that is inconsistent with the
terms of this Agreement, the terms of such order
or requirement shall supersede and replace
the terms of this Agreement. You agree to pay
all of our costs and expenses associated with
responding to any matter described in this
paragraph, including our attorneys’ fees.
26. Utah and Federal Law Apply to the
Account. This Agreement and all matters
relating to the Card or the Account, as well
as any disputes between us and you, shall be
subject to and governed by federal law and
the internal laws of the State of Utah without
regard to rules concerning conflicts of law or
choice of law.
27. Jurisdiction, Venue and Service of
Process. You acknowledge that you applied for
credit from a bank located in Utah and by using
the card are borrowing money from a bank
located in Utah. You acknowledge and agree that
we may enforce this Agreement and resolve any
disputes, for which arbitration is not demanded
in accordance with the Arbitration Agreement,
in courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah,
and that such courts have proper jurisdiction
to hear any matters related to this Agreement.
You agree that we may serve process upon you
using certified mail from the United States Postal
Service or any other courier service, and you
hereby acknowledge that the signature of any
person found at your residence or other address
on such mailing receipt will serve as satisfactory
proof that process was served upon you and
shall be deemed notice to you thereof.
28. We May Assign the Agreement but You
May Not. You may not sell, assign, or otherwise
transfer this Agreement, the Card, the Deposit
Account or the Account, or any portion thereof,
without the express written consent of the
Bank. The Bank may sell, assign, or transfer
this Agreement or the Account or the Deposit
Account, or any portion thereof or any rights
to collect money thereunder, at any time and
without your prior consent.
29. We Do Not Waive Our Rights Through
Inaction or Delay. The Bank’s failure to exercise
(or delay in exercising) any of its rights under
this Agreement or its waiver of its rights on any
one or more occasions shall not constitute a
waiver of such rights on any other occasion. All
rights and remedies of the Bank are cumulative
and may be pursued singularly, successively or
together, at its sole option.
30. Severability. If any portion of this
Agreement, other than the class action waiver
provisions of the Arbitration Agreement, is
deemed invalid or unenforceable, the remaining
portions shall nevertheless remain in force. If the
class action waiver provisions of the Arbitration
Agreement are deemed invalid or unenforceable,
then the entire Arbitration Agreement shall
be null and void but all other portions of this
Agreement shall nevertheless remain in force.
31. The Agreement Is an Integrated
Agreement. This document, together with the
Pricing Appendix and any change-in-terms
notices we send to you, constitute the final
written expression of the Agreement between
you and the Bank concerning the Card, the
Account and the Deposit Account, and this
Agreement may not be contradicted by evidence
of any alleged oral agreement.
32. Glossary and Definitions. The following
definitions apply throughout your Agreement.
“Account” means the credit card account
governed by this Agreement. The Account was
created in and is maintained within the State
of Utah.
“Account Balance” means what you owe the
Bank at a particular moment in time, including
all billed and accrued interest, based upon
transactions that have posted by that time.
The balance information you receive over the
telephone from us may not be your payoff
balance due to possible delays in posting or
calculation, or due to fees or interest incurred or
to be incurred, or for other reasons.
“Annual Fee” means the annual fee, if any,
described in the Pricing Appendix.
“Additional Card Fee” means the additional fee,
described in the Pricing Appendix, that must be
paid annually for each additional Card provided
to you, a co-applicant or an authorized user of
the Account.
“Agreement” means this document and the
Pricing Appendix, together with any changes
in terms.
“Annual Percentage Rate” or “APR” is the
interest rate stated as a yearly rate. As set forth
in the Pricing Appendix, different APRs will apply
to Purchases and Cash Advances.
“Arbitration Agreement” means the section of
this Agreement entitled “Agreement to Arbitrate
Disputes and Class Action Waiver.”
“ATM” means automated teller machine.
“Average Daily Balance” means the average
of the daily balances on your Account during a
Billing Cycle.
“Bank,” “Merrick Bank,” “we,” “our,” and “us”
mean Merrick Bank Corporation.
“Billing Cycle” means the interval between
the closing dates for each successive
Billing Statement.
“Billing Statement” means the Billing Statement
you receive for your Account each month. We
are under no obligation to send you a Billing
Statement if your Account Balance is zero and if
you have no transactions on the Account during
the Billing Cycle.
“Card” means the plastic card(s) we have
provided to you to make charges to the Account,
as well as any additional, renewal, replacement
or temporary card and any other device or
technology which may be used to make charges
to the Account or to evidence its existence.
“Cash Advance” means a transaction with
the Card wherein you receive cash or a cash
equivalent, or wherein we provide cash or a
cash equivalent to someone at your direction.
Examples of Cash Advance transactions
include ATM transactions, balance transfers,
money transfers, money order purchases, tax
payments, traveler’s check purchases, foreign
currency purchases, casino chip purchases
and gaming transactions. Even if we choose to
treat a particular Cash Advance (or a portion
of it) as a Purchase, we may still treat other
Cash Advances (or portions of them) as Cash
Advances, and we do not waive our right to
do so.
“Cash Advance APR Cap” means the highest
APR for Cash Advances that may apply to
your Account.
“Cash Advance Margin” is the amount that is
added to the Prime Rate to determine the APR
for Cash Advances on your Account.
“Daily Periodic Rate” or “DPR” means the
applicable APR divided by 365.
“Deposit Account” means (if the Account is
wholly or partially secured) the Merrick Bank
deposit account opened as security for the
Account, as described in the “Deposit Account
and Security Agreement (If Applicable)” section
of this Agreement.
“EFT” means electronic funds transfer.
“Introductory Annual Percentage Rate” or
“Introductory APR” (also “Introductory Daily
Percentage Rate” or “Introductory DPR”) is
a lower interest rate that applies for a
limited amount of time after an account is
opened. Your Account may or may not have
Introductory rates.
“Late Payment Fee” means the fee you must
pay if your Minimum Payment is not received
on time. The amount of the Late Payment Fee
is set forth in the Pricing Appendix and is in
addition to any additional interest charges that
accrue as a result of your paying late.
“Minimum Payment” means what you must
pay each Billing Cycle before the Payment Due
Date. The Minimum Payment is calculated as
described in the Pricing Appendix.
“New Balance” means the total amount
you owe to the Bank as of the end of the
Billing Cycle described in the Billing
Statement. If transactions are posted after
the end of the Billing Cycle, the New Balance
will not equal the Account Balance under
most circumstances.
“Payment Due Date” means the date when
your Minimum Payment must be received
by 5 p.m. local time at the payment address
indicated on the most recent Billing Statement.
If the Minimum Payment is not timely received,
you must pay a Late Payment Fee. The
Payment Due Date will be shown on the Billing
Statement and always will be at least 25 days
after the last day of the prior Billing Cycle.
“Pricing Appendix” refers to the document
attached to your Card when you first received
it, setting forth applicable APRs, fees and
certain other important terms of
this Agreement.
“PIN” refers to the personal identification
number associated with your Card for use in
ATM and other electronic transactions.
“Prime Rate” means the prime rate of interest
published on the last business day of each
month in the “Bonds, Rates & Yields” or the
“Money Rates” section of The Wall Street
Journal (or a comparable section or rate if The
Wall Street Journal ceases publication of those
sections or that rate).
“Purchase” means any transaction with the
Card between you and anyone else who
accepts the Card as a means of payment.
However, Cash Advances are not Purchases.
“Purchase APR Cap” is the highest APR for
Purchases that may apply to your Account.
“Purchase Margin” is the amount that is added
to the Prime Rate to determine the APR for
Purchases on your Account.
“You” and “your” means the Card applicant or
if applying jointly, both Card applicants, and the
person or persons to whom the Card is issued.
Equal Opportunity Lender Member FDIC
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Advance after its conversion into U.S. Dollars,
as described in the “About Foreign Currency
Transactions” section of this Agreement.
f. Late Payment Fee. Your Account will be
charged a Late Payment Fee if you have not paid
the Minimum Payment on a Billing Statement by
the Payment Due Date.
g. Minimum Interest Charge. In any Billing Cycle
in which your Account has a balance, you were
not charged a Cash Advance Transaction Fee
and the total interest charged for the Billing
Cycle would otherwise be less than $1, a
Minimum Interest Charge will be charged to
your Account.
h. Phone Payment Fee. If you wish expedited
service for transmittal of a payment, you may
request to make a phone payment using a
customer service representative for which you will
be charged a fee. The amount of the fee will be
disclosed prior to fulfilling your request.
i. Replacement Card Fee. Your Account may be
charged a fee for each replacement Card or PIN
you request, no matter what the reason, or if
your Card or PIN is lost or stolen.
j. Returned Payment Fee. A Returned Payment
Fee will be charged to your Account if for any
reason a check, draft or similar instrument is not
honored or cannot be processed, or if an EFT or
electronic debit is returned unpaid or cannot be
processed, even if the item is later honored or
paid following resubmission. You authorize us to
resubmit returned payments (including without
limitation through electronic collection methods)
at our discretion.
k. Fees for Other Services. We may charge other
fees to your Account for services associated with
your Account that you request. You may decline
the services before the fees are charged.
l. Over Limit Fee. If the law permits, we will
charge an Over Limit Fee as set forth in the
Pricing Appendix. We are not obligated to
approve any over the limit transaction. If any
amount set forth in the Pricing Appendix exceeds
the maximum permitted by applicable law, we
will follow the law as to such fee or charge.
9. About Annual Fees. If your Card is subject to
an Annual Fee, but you have not yet used your
Card to make a Purchase or to obtain a Cash
Advance, you may cancel your Account within
90 days of receiving the Card by calling (800)
204-5936 or by writing to us at Merrick Bank,
P.O. Box 9201, Old Bethpage, NY 11804-9001.
If we receive your request to cancel within 90
days of your receipt of the Card, you will not
be responsible for the Annual Fee if you have
not previously used the Card or the Account.
Otherwise, you must pay the Annual Fee.
If you obtain an additional Card, the amount
of the Annual Fee will be increased by the
Additional Card Fee described in the Pricing
Appendix. Both the Annual Fee and the Additional
Card Fee must be paid for each year (or part
thereof) when the Account is open, whether or
not the Card is used during the year and whether
or not there is a balance on the Card. Payment
of the Annual Fee does not assure you of good
standing on the Account, does not affect our right
to change the terms of this Agreement and does
not affect our right to decline authorization of
any Purchase or Cash Advance. If the Account is
closed but with an unpaid balance, the Annual Fee
and Additional Card Fee must be paid for each
year (or part thereof) when there is a balance
greater than zero on the Account.
After the first year you have the Card, we
may in our discretion choose to bill the Annual
Fee and the Additional Card Fee in
12 monthly installments.
10. About the Credit Limits on the Account.
The Bank has established a total credit limit
and a Cash Advance credit limit on the Account,
and any transaction that might exceed one
of these credit limits may be declined at our
sole discretion. We may also opt, in our sole
discretion, to approve or decline any portion
of a requested transaction. These credit limits
may be reduced at any time without warning
or notice to you, at any time, during any Billing
Cycle. We similarly may suspend charging
privileges at any time and for any reason (or no
reason) without warning or notice to you. This
may, for example, occur if you fail to comply with
any provision of the Agreement, if we in our sole
discretion believe our likelihood of being repaid is
diminished or impaired, or if overall credit market
conditions make it infeasible or more costly to
extend credit to you.
In determining your continuing creditworthiness,
the Bank, in its discretion, may consider, among
other things, the total amount of debt you are
carrying compared to your resources or any other
of your credit characteristics, regardless of your
performance on the Account.
Subject to our review and approval, you may,
if your Account is secured or partially secured,
increase your credit limit by making additional
deposits into the Deposit Account. Any such
additional deposits must be at least $50, and
without our express written approval the balance
in the Deposit Account may not exceed an amount
that together with any unsecured credit available
to you through your account would cause your
total credit limit to exceed the amount of $10,000.
Certain transactions or combinations of
transactions may cause your Account Balance or
your Cash Advance balance to reach or exceed
credit limits, and as a result authorization for
certain Purchases or Cash Advances may be
declined. For example, even if we have posted
a payment or credit to the Account, we still may
in our sole discretion decline to permit use of a
portion of the credit limit equal to the amount of
the payment or credit for up to eleven days from
the date posted. Additionally, certain merchants
(such as hotels or rental car agencies) as a
matter of policy will process charges in a manner
resulting in a temporary restriction of the use of
a portion of the credit limit that is substantially
greater than the actual amount of the charge;
please inquire of the merchant before using the
Card to determine whether the merchant follows
such a policy.
11. About Foreign Currency Transactions.
Purchases and Cash Advances made in
currencies other than U.S. Dollars will be
converted to U.S. Dollars under the operating
regulations or foreign currency conversion
procedures established by Visa
®
or MasterCard
®
then in effect. Conversion to U.S. Dollars may
occur several days or weeks after the transaction;
therefore, the currency conversion rate may be
significantly different from the rate in effect at the
time of the transaction. We do not determine the
currency conversion rate that is used, and it may
be significantly less favorable to you than a rate
you could obtain in a cash transaction. You agree
to pay the converted amount. For each Purchase
or Cash Advance made in a foreign currency, we
add an additional interest charge of 2% of the
amount of the Purchase or Cash Advance after its
conversion into U.S. Dollars.
12. What Purchases and Cash Advances
Are Not Allowed. We may, in our sole discretion,
deny authorization for any requested Purchase or
Cash Advance. You may not use the Account or
the Card for business or commercial purposes;
the Account and the Card may be used for
consumer purposes only.
You may not use the Account or the Card to
make payments on the Account or anyone else’s
account with us.
You may not use the Account or the Card for
anything we deem unlawful gambling activity.
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 make
Purchases that exceed your available credit limit.
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.
13. Closing the Account. We may close the
Account at any time for any reason (or no
reason) and without prior notice. You may close
the Account at any time. Authorized users
of the Account other than you may not close
the Account. All amounts due on the Account
pursuant to this Agreement must be paid even
if the Account is closed (no matter by whom)
or if charging privileges are reduced, restricted
or suspended.
14. About Excess Payments and Credits. If
payments and credits posted to the Account
exceed what you owe, you will have a credit
balance with us, which may be offset against
future Purchases or Cash Advances that occur. If
a credit balance persists, we will mail a check to
you for the amount of the credit balance within
the time frame required by applicable law. If
we are unable to locate you, any credit balance
in your account will be escheated pursuant to
applicable law.
15. About Credit Reporting. You authorize us
to request consumer reports (also known as
credit reports) including periodic updates about
you, to make whatever credit investigations we
deem appropriate, to obtain and exchange any
information we may receive from consumer
reports and other sources and to use such
information for any purpose (including to
reduce credit limits, to restrict or suspend
charging privileges or to close the Account).
You also authorize us to furnish information
concerning your Account and your performance
under this Agreement to consumer reporting
agencies (credit bureaus) or to others, but you
acknowledge that we are under no duty to do
so. If you believe information we have furnished
about your Account to a consumer reporting
agency is inaccurate, you should notify the
appropriate credit reporting agency to request
that it investigate the possible inaccuracy. You
may also write to us at Merrick Bank, P.O. Box
9201, Old Bethpage, NY 11804-9001, and
identify the specific information you believe is
inaccurate. IF YOU FAIL TO MAKE PAYMENTS ON
TIME AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IF
YOU OTHERWISE FAIL TO FULFILL THE TERMS
OF THIS AGREEMENT, THEN NEGATIVE OR
DEROGATORY INFORMATION MAY BE PLACED
ON YOUR CREDIT FILE.
16. The Deposit Account and Security
Agreement (If Applicable). If the Account was
approved on condition of its being secured or
partially secured, the following rules apply:
(i) you agree to create a Deposit Account,
which you shall maintain with us and cause to
remain unencumbered, except for the security
interest granted to the Bank pursuant to this
Agreement (for example, you shall not allow
the Deposit Account to become subject to any
nonconsensual lien, judgment, attachment
or execution); and (ii) we do not allow any
withdrawal from the Deposit Account until the
Account is closed and any outstanding balance
is paid in full.
YOU HEREBY GRANT TO THE BANK A SECURITY
INTEREST IN THE DEPOSIT ACCOUNT TO SECURE
PERFORMANCE BY YOU OF ALL OF YOUR
OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCOUNT AND
OTHERWISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE OBLIGATION TO MAKE
PAYMENTS TO THE BANK AS DESCRIBED HEREIN.
If the Account is closed by you or us for any
reason, you authorize us to apply all or any part
of the funds in the Deposit Account to reduce
all amounts owed on the Account and any other
outstanding obligation owed to the Bank,
including, without limitation, any part of your
outstanding Account balance in connection
with which any claim under a credit insurance
policy or debt cancellation program is pending.
The application of your deposit will be a credit
adjustment to your Account balance, and is
not a payment. If we elect not to, or otherwise
fail to apply funds in the Deposit Account
against amounts owed on the Account or
any other outstanding obligation owed to the
Bank, you agree that: (1) we do not thereby
waive any right we have to do so at any later
date, and may so apply such funds at any
time, in our sole discretion; and (2) you are not
thereby excused from the performance of any
obligation owing with respect to the Account or
otherwise under this Agreement. If, however, (A)
the Account is closed by you or by us for any
reason, and (B) we fail to apply the funds in the
Deposit Account against amounts owed on the
Account or otherwise to us, you may request, in
writing, that we apply the funds in the Deposit
Account against such amounts. We will honor
any such written request within five business
days after we receive it at Merrick Bank, P.O.
Box 9201, Old Bethpage, NY 11804-9001. If
the amount in the Deposit Account exceeds the
amount you owe the Bank, then, unless you
instruct us otherwise, we will handle the funds
remaining in the Deposit Account in accordance
with the terms of the following paragraph.
After the Account has been closed and there
are no amounts owing in connection therewith
or otherwise under this Agreement, we can
hold the funds in the Deposit Account until
the earlier of the following: (1) we elect, in our
discretion, to close the Deposit Account and
return any remaining funds to you; or (2) not
more than 90 days after we receive from you a
written request to return any funds remaining
in the Deposit Account.
17. Additional Deposit Account and Security
Agreement Disclosures. If you have a Deposit
Account, the following shall apply:
a. Interest Rate. Interest will not be paid on
your Deposit Account.
b. Minimum Balance to Open and Maintain
the Deposit Account. You must initially deposit,
and at all times maintain, a deposit amount
that is defined on the application unless we
specifically agree otherwise with you. If you
do not, we either will not open the Account or
we may terminate the Account. We reserve the
right to refuse to accept any deposit into the
Deposit Account.
c. Subsequent Deposits. Subsequent deposits
into your Deposit Account must be at least $50.
d. Transaction Limitations. You may not
withdraw or transfer funds from the Deposit
Account, except as otherwise set forth in this
Agreement. Funds may not be used to make a
payment. Funds from a closed Deposit Account
will be returned in accordance with the section
above titled “The Deposit Account and
Security Agreement.”
e. Fees. A Returned Payment Fee, as shown
in the “Fees” section of the Pricing Appendix,
will be charged for each check or other item
submitted as a deposit to the Deposit Account
that is returned or rejected for any reason,
including insufficient funds.
f. Statements. Information about the Deposit
Account will appear on each Billing Statement
that we send you.
18. We Are Not Responsible for Third-Party
Features, Services or Benefits. If your Card
includes a rewards program, you acknowledge
and agree that third-parties may be
responsible to fulfill any merchandise, rewards
or other redemptions, and that any such
rewards program will be governed by separate
terms and conditions provided to you prior
to participation in the program. From time to
time your Card may include various additional
features, services and enhancements,
including common carrier travel insurance,
credit card registration for lost or stolen credit
cards, and emergency cash service. The Bank
is not liable for these features, services, and
enhancements, and such features, services,
and enhancements are the sole responsibility
of the third-party provider. You agree to hold
the Bank harmless from any claims, actions
or damages resulting from your use of any
of these features, services or enhancements,
when permitted by applicable law. The Bank
reserves the right to adjust, add or delete
benefits and services at any time and without
compensating you in any fashion.
19. You Must Read Your Billing Statement
Carefully as Soon as You Receive It. You
must read your Billing Statement as soon
as you receive it. You must review all of it
carefully, including information regarding your
Deposit Account, if any. If there is an error on
your Billing Statement and you do not advise
the Bank of that error within 60 days after the
Bank mails the Billing Statement to you, you
will be bound by what the Billing Statement
shows. You should also read carefully the
billing dispute information provided in the
section below titled “Your Billing Rights Under
the Fair Credit Billing Act.”
20. Protecting the Account From Fraud.
Help to prevent fraud before it occurs. Call
us immediately at (877) 727-6881 if you
lose the Card, if it is stolen or if you suspect
any fraudulent use. Reading your Billing
Statement as soon as you receive it and
reviewing transactions at
www.merrickbank.com/cardholdercenter are
ways to help prevent fraud. You will not be
responsible for any unauthorized Purchases
with the Card occurring after we receive
word of its loss or theft. Even if the Purchases
occur before we receive word of its loss or
theft, you will not be responsible for them so
long as: (1) you promptly gave us notice of
the loss or theft and (2) the transactions were
processed by Visa
®
or MasterCard
®
. In all other
circumstances you will be responsible for all
resulting Purchases and Cash Advances, and
we reserve the right to collect from you all
amounts due or otherwise resulting from such
Purchases and Cash Advances. We take Card
theft and fraud very seriously, and you agree
to cooperate with our investigation and further
agree to assign to us any claims you may have
against any third party related to theft, fraud or
unauthorized use.
21. Your Billing Rights Under the Fair Credit
Billing Act.
YOUR BILLING RIGHTS. KEEP THIS NOTICE
FOR FUTURE USE.
This notice contains important information
about your rights and our responsibilities under
the Fair Credit Billing Act.
Notify Us in Case of Errors or Questions
About Your Bill
If you think your bill is wrong, or if you need
more information about a transaction on your
bill, write to us on a separate sheet of paper at
Merrick Bank, P.O. Box 9201, Old Bethpage, NY
11804-9001. Write to us as soon as possible.
We must hear from you no later than 60 days
after we sent you the first bill on which the
error or problem appeared. You can telephone
us, but doing so will not preserve your rights.
In your letter, give us the following information:
Your name and account number.
The dollar amount of the suspected error.
Describe the error and explain if you can,
why you believe there is an error. If you
need more information, describe the item
you are not sure about.
If you have authorized us to pay your credit
card bill automatically from your savings or
checking account, you can stop the payment
on any amount you think is wrong. To stop
the payment, your letter must reach us three
business days before the automatic payment is
scheduled to occur.
Your Rights and Our Responsibilities After
We Receive Your Written Notice
We must acknowledge your letter within 30
days, unless we have corrected the error by
then. Within 90 days we must either correct
the error or explain why we believe the bill was
correct. After we receive your letter, we cannot
try to collect any amount you questioned, or
report you as delinquent. We can continue to
bill you for the amount you question, including
interest charges, and we can apply any unpaid
amount against your credit limit. You do not have
to pay any questioned amount while we are
investigating, but you are still obligated to pay
the parts of your bill that are not in question.
If we find that we made a mistake on your bill,
you will not have to pay any interest charges
related to any questioned amount. If we didn’t
make a mistake, you may have to pay interest
charges, and you will have to make up any
missed payments on the questioned amount. In
either case, we will send you a statement of the
amount you owe and the date that it is due.
If you fail to pay the amount that we think you
owe, we may report you as delinquent. However,
if our explanation does not satisfy you and you
write to us within ten days telling us that you
still refuse to pay, we must tell anyone we report
you to that you have a question about your bill.
And, we must tell you the name of anyone we
reported you to. We must tell anyone we report
you to that the matter has been settled between
us when it finally is.
If we don’t follow these rules, we can’t collect
the first $50 of the questioned amount, even if
your bill was correct.
Special Rules for Credit Card Purchases
If you have a problem with the quality of
property or services that you purchased with a
credit card, and you have tried in good faith to
correct the problem with the merchant, you may
have the right not to pay the remaining amount
due on the property or services. There are two
limitations on this right:
a) You must have made the purchases in
your home state or, if not within your home
state, within 100 miles of your current mailing
address; and
b) The purchase price must have been
more than $50. These limitations do not apply
if we own or operate the merchant, or if we
mailed you the advertisement for the property
or services.
22. How We May Contact You to Discuss the
Account. Your use of the Card or the Account,
or your signature on the Card or any charge slip
for any Purchase or Cash Advance transaction,
hereby amounts to your express consent for us
or our assignee to contact you for any purpose
(including without limitation for the purpose
of collection or servicing the Account) in any
manner at any telephone number (landline
or wireless) or physical or electronic mail
address you ever provide or have provided to
us. You agree that we may refuse to authorize
Purchases or Cash Advances or close your
Account if we are unable or unauthorized to
contact you by telephone. For example, we
or our assignee may, to the maximum degree
permitted by applicable law:
(1) contact you by mail, telephone (landline or
wireless), email, fax, recorded message, text
message, short message service (SMS) and
personal visit;
(2) contact you using an automated dialing
and announcing or similar device, and to use
artificial or prerecorded voice messages;
(3) modify or suppress caller ID and similar
services and identify ourselves on these services
in any manner we choose;
(4) leave prerecorded and other messages on
your answering machine, answering service,
voicemail and with family members or other
persons taking messages for you;
(5) contact you at your home and at your place
of employment;
(6) contact you at any time, including weekends
and holidays;
(7) contact you with any frequency; and
(8) identify ourselves, your relationship with
us and our purpose for contacting you even if
others might hear or read it.
We may do these things whether we contact you
or you contact us.
You agree that we are not required to reimburse
you for any costs or other expenses resulting
from our communicating with you by any
method described in this Agreement. If you do
not wish for us to use some particular manner
of contacting you, you must notify us of this in
writing. However, we are required by law to send
you Billing Statements even if you request that
we stop doing so.
If you advise us that you are represented by an
attorney, you must provide the attorney’s name,
address and telephone number; if you do not
provide the attorney’s contact information, we
may contact you to confirm the representation
and obtain the attorney’s contact information.
If the attorney does not confirm in writing to us
within 45 days after we contact the attorney
that you are his or her client, then we will
assume that you are no longer represented by
the attorney and we may communicate with
you directly. Additionally, if any 45-day period
passes where your attorney does not respond to
communications from us, we will assume that
you are no longer represented by the attorney
and we may communicate with you directly.
You recognize that there is an established
business relationship between you and us.
Contacts with you about your Account are not
unsolicited and might result from information
we obtain from you or others. If you ask us to
discuss your Account with someone else,
you must provide us with documents that we
ask for and that are acceptable to us in our
sole discretion.
You agree that we may, in our sole discretion,
monitor or record telephone calls with you,
regardless of who initiates the call. We may at
our discretion preserve records of written, voice
and electronic communications with you, but we
do not promise to maintain such records for any
period of time.
You agree that we may, in our sole discretion,
engage the services of an unrelated third party
for the purpose of providing alternative format
materials for persons who are visually impaired or
providing language translation services.
23. Where We Are and How You May Contact
Us. We are located in Utah, and the Account is
opened and maintained there. Our customer
service telephone number is (800) 204-5936.
Payments should be sent to the payment
address indicated on the Billing Statement.
Any general questions about your Account or
the Card, as well as any questions or disputes
of any item on a Billing Statement, should be
mailed to: Merrick Bank, P.O. Box 9201, Old
Bethpage, NY 11804-9001. All communications
relating to the Arbitration Agreement should be
mailed to: Arbitration Manager, Merrick Bank,
Legal Department, P.O. Box 5000, Draper, Utah
84020-5000. Communicating with us at any
other address will not protect your rights.
24. Agreement to Arbitrate Disputes and
Class Action Waiver. This section is an
agreement to arbitrate disputes (“Arbitration
Agreement”) that may arise as a result of the
Agreement or your Account. Read this Arbitration
Agreement carefully. You may reject this
Arbitration Agreement by notifying us in writing
within 60 days using the procedure set forth
at the end of this section. If you are a covered
borrower under the Military Lending Act, you
are not required to submit to arbitration, even
if you fail to reject this Arbitration Agreement
as described above. If a dispute arises that
is covered by this Arbitration Agreement, you
will be required to resolve the dispute through
Binding Arbitration if you or we request Binding
Arbitration as set forth herein. This means
that you will not be able to have the dispute
settled by trial or before a jury or to participate
in a class action in court or a class action or
consolidated arbitration. Other rights that you
would have if you went to court may not be
available or may be more limited in arbitration,
including your right to appeal.
In consideration for our willingness to provide
you with an Account as set forth in the
Agreement, you and we agree as follows:
Any claim, dispute or controversy (“Claim”)
by either you or us against the other arising
from or relating in any way to the Agreement
or your Account, except for the validity, scope
or enforceability of this Arbitration Agreement,
shall, at the demand of any party, be resolved
by Binding Arbitration. However, we will not
demand arbitration pursuant to this agreement
to arbitrate in connection with any individual
Claim that you properly file and pursue in a
small-claims court of your state or municipality,
so long as the Claim is pending only in that
court. “Binding Arbitration” means an arbitration
proceeding before the American Arbitration
Association pursuant to the code of procedures
of the American Arbitration Association in effect
at the time the Claim is filed (the “Arbitration
Rules”). Any arbitration proceeding will take
place at a location within the federal judicial
district that includes the most recent U.S. Mail
address we have on file for you at the time the
Claim is filed or at any other mutually acceptable
location. Any party to the arbitration proceeding
may enter judgment upon the arbitration
award in any court having jurisdiction over the
arbitration award and may have that judgment
enforced by any court having jurisdiction over
that judgment.
A demand for arbitration under this agreement
to arbitrate may be made either before or after
a lawsuit or other legal proceeding begins.
However, any demand for arbitration that is
made after a lawsuit or other legal proceeding
has begun must be made within 90 days
following the service of a complaint, third-party
complaint, cross-claim or counterclaim or any
answer thereto or any amendment to any of
the above.
This agreement to arbitrate Claims includes all
controversies and claims of any kind between
us. It also includes any disputes you have with
our agents, contractors, employees, officers
or assignees, any merchants with whom you
use the Account, any credit reporting agencies
to whom we report the Account or any other
third party that has been involved or becomes
involved with, or whose trademarks are used
in connection with, any purchasing, marketing,
soliciting, servicing or credit reporting activity
relating to your Account.
The Claims covered by this agreement to
arbitrate include, without limitation:
Any disputes regarding: the application you
prepared in connection with the issuance of
your Account; any solicitation or advertising
materials you received in connection
with your Account; any activities relating
to the maintenance or servicing of your
Account; and any funds held by the Bank in
connection with your Account;
Any disputes arising from the collection
of amounts you owe in connection with
your Account;
Any disputes concerning the dollar amount
of payments made or transactions posted to
your Account;
Any disputes concerning the processing of
items or funds transfers sent to the Bank for
the purpose of posting to your Account;
Any disputes regarding information
obtained by us from, or reported by us to,
credit bureaus or others; and
Any disputes related to insurance or other
services or products purchased from us in
connection with your Account.
NO ARBITRATOR OR COURT MAY ORDER,
PERMIT OR CERTIFY A CLASS ACTION,
REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, PRIVATE
ATTORNEY GENERAL LITIGATION OR
CONSOLIDATED ARBITRATION IN CONNECTION
WITH THIS AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE.
NO ARBITRATOR OR COURT MAY ORDER
ACCOUNT OPENING DISCLOSURESMERRICK UNSECURED
Interest Rates and Interest Charges
Annual Percentage Rate (APR) for
Purchases
20.45% to 29.95%
when you open your account, based on
creditworthiness. Your APR will vary with the market based on the Prime
Rate.*
APR for Cash Advances
25.45% to 34.95% when you open your account, based on creditworthiness.
Your APR will vary with the market based on the Prime Rate.*
Paying Interest
Your Payment Due Date is at least 25 days after the close of each Billing
Cycle. We will not charge you interest on Purchases if you pay your
entire New Balance by the Payment Due Date. We will begin charging
interest on Cash Advances on the transaction date.
Minimum Interest Charge
If you are charged interest, the charge will be no less than $1.00
For Credit Card Tips from the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau
To learn more about factors to consider when applying for or using a credit
card, visit the website of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/learnmore.
Fees
Set Up and Maintenance Fees
· Annual Fee
· Account Set-up Fee
· Additional Card Fee
NOTICE: Some of these set-up and maintenance fees will be assessed
before you begin using your card and will reduce the amount of credit you
initially have available. Based on an initial credit limit of $500, the initial
available credit will be about $377 (based on a one-time $75 set-up fee and a
$48 annual fee) or about $365 if you also choose to have an additional card.
You may still reject this plan, provided that you have not yet used the
account or paid a fee after receiving a billing statement. If you do reject the
plan, you are not responsible for any fees or charges.
$0 to $96 the first year. Billed $0 to $8 per month thereafter.
$0 to $75 (one-time fee)
$0 to $12 per additional card issued, per year. Billed $0 to $1 per month, per
card thereafter.
Transaction Fees
· Cash Advance
·Foreign Transaction
Either $10 or 4% of the amount advanced, whichever is greater.
2% of each transaction in U.S. Dollars.
Penalty Fees
· Late Payment
· Over Limit
· Returned Payment
Up to $38
$0
Up to $38
How We Will Calculate Your Balance: We use a method called "average daily balances (including new purchases)."
See your Cardholder Agreement for more details.
Billing Rights: Information on your rights to dispute transactions and how to exercise those rights is provided in your
Cardholder Agreement.
Annual Percentage Rates: Daily Periodic Rate for Purchases .05602% to .08205%; Daily Periodic Rate for Cash Advances .06972% to
.09575%.
Variable Rate Information: Purchase Margin 16.20 to 25.70 percentage points; Cash Advance Margin 21.20 to 30.70 percentage
points. Your APR for Purchases and Cash Advances may vary. Your APR is determined monthly by adding the appropriate margin to the
Prime Rate*. If the Prime Rate* increases, your APR will increase accordingly, with no cap. An increase in your APR will result in an
increase of your minimum payment amount.
*"Prime Rate" means the prime rate of interest published on the last business day of each month in The Wall Street Journal
(or comparable rate if The Wall Street Journal ceases publication).
Minimum Payment: All past-due amounts, any Annual Fee billed monthly, any Additional Card Fee billed monthly plus the greater of
the following amounts: (i) 1% of your New Balance plus Late Fees, Cash Advance Transaction Fees, Over Limit Fees, Returned Payment
Fees, and Interest Charges billed during the billing cycle for which the Minimum Payment is calculated, as shown on that periodic
statement, rounded to the next-higher dollar; or (ii) $35. If the New Balance is less than $35, the Minimum Payment will be the total
amount owed.
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