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Updated & valid from:

1 August

HEADO LTD is a private limited company incorporated and registered in the Republic of Cyprus with company number C415141, whose registered office is at Floor 2, Flat/Office 202, Ioanni Stylianoy 6, 2003 Nicosia, Cyprus. Heado is authorized and regulated by the Central Bank of Cyprus (“CBC”) as an Electronic Money Institution under registration number 115.1.3.61. Heado’s main business is the issuance, distribution, redemption of e-money, and the provision of services closely related to the issuance of electronic money.

Our services consist of the supply of an electronic money account (“Altery Account'') which will be linked to the Altery Platform. You can use the Altery Account to store funds, receive funds from external accounts (including payments initiated through the Altery Platform), and send electronic payments either to an account held by Heado or to a third-party bank or E-money Account. The scope of the services we provide to you is further defined in clause 4 of these Terms.

Heado is part of the Altery trade name and trades under the name of Altery. This agreement sets out the Terms and Conditions for Altery Accounts and the related provision of services. These Terms and Conditions and each of the documents we refer to in them are our standard customer agreement (“the Terms'') for providing the Services. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must refrain from opening an Altery Account or using our website and services.

For your own benefit and protection, you should read these Terms and each of the documents we refer to carefully before signing them. If you do not understand any point, you should contact us for further information using the methods set out on our website www.altery.com before using the Services.

We will communicate with you in English, which is the language agreed with you when opening your account. By accepting this agreement, you agree that we may provide notices or other information to you from time to time to your registered email address or contact you using other contact details you have provided. Notices sent by email shall be deemed to have been received three days after the date of remittance of email.

HEADO LTD is a private limited company incorporated and registered in the Republic of Cyprus with company number C415141 whose registered office is at Floor 2, Flat/Office 202, Ioanni Stylianoy 6, 2003 Nicosia, Cyprus. Heado is authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Cyprus (“CBC”) as an Electronic Money Institution, under registration number 115.1.3.61. Heado’s main business is the issuance, distribution, redemption of e-money and the provision of services closely related to the issuance of electronic money.

Our services comprise the supply of an electronic money account (“Altery Account'') which will be linked to the Altery Platform. You can use the Altery Account to store funds, receive funds from external accounts (including payments initiated through the Altery Platform), and send electronic payments either to an account held by Heado or to a third-party bank or E-money Account. The scope of the services we provide to you is further defined in clause 4 of these Terms.

We will communicate with you in the English language, which is the language agreed upon with you when opening your account. By accepting this agreement, you agree that we may provide notices or other information to you from time to time to your registered email address or contact you using other contact details you have provided. Notices sent by email shall be deemed to have been received three days after the date of remittance of the email.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

1.1 The Terms are a legal agreement between Heado Ltd (“Heado”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and the Customer (“you” or “your”) for us to supply you with the Services. It applies to Altery Accounts which are offered in the EU/EEA and EFTA Countries.

1.2 The Terms are valid and bind both parties throughout the duration of the service relationship, from the date of opening an Altery Account until the closure of the Altery account.

1.3 Documents or information that appear on the Altery Website (www.altery.com (or any other website through which we operate and which we notify you about from time to time)) and that we refer to in these Terms (for example, the Fees List) are incorporated into the Terms and form part of your agreement with us. These Terms govern your use of the Services and how we provide you with the Services.

1.4 You can:
(a) get a current version of these Terms in the legal documents section of our Website; or
(b) contact us (see paragraph 23) and ask us to send you a paper copy of the current Terms.

1.5 All information and documents we provide or make available to you will be in English, and ongoing communications with you will be in English. If these Terms are translated into another language, it is for reference purposes only. Any reference in such a translation to an English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, official, or any legal concept or thing shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than Cyprus, be deemed to include a reference to that which most nearly approximates to the English legal term in that jurisdiction.

1.6 The Terms are effective upon the date you apply for the Services or an Altery Account (whichever is sooner) (“Effective Date”) and continue until you or Heado terminates it (this period, the “Term”).

1.7 The capitalised expressions in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them below:
Account Access Details mean all your log-in details, passwords, personal identification number, or any other identification or security features relating to your use of the Altery Account that are provided to you or that you may be asked to set up by us from time to time;
Altery Account means the electronic money account you open and maintain with us in connection with the Services and which is available to access and view either through our Website, our App, or the API;
Account Opening Fee means a fee that we may charge you before opening your Altery Account.
API means the application programme interface which we can make available to you and through which you can access your Altery Account and use the Services;
Application Form means the form you complete in order to apply for the Services;
Approved Currency means any currency approved by us from time to time for holding funds in the Altery Account;
Authorised User means, in relation to a Corporate Customer, any natural person that you have authorised to access your Altery Account and/or provide us with instructions on your behalf;
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a bank holiday in the Republic of Cyprus. For another party such as the recipient when you make a payment, it will mean a day on which that other party's Payment Service Provider (PSP) is open for business and carrying out Transactions;
Card means any card or cards issued to a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a bank holiday in England or Estonia that is or are linked to your Altery Account;
Card Terms mean the terms and conditions governing your use of the Card from time to time, which can be found in the legal documents section of our Website;
Circumstances Beyond Our Control means abnormal and unforeseen circumstances beyond our control and include without limitation, acts of God; expropriation or confiscation of facilities; strikes, lock-outs, or other industrial action; local or national emergency, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, any form of war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war; fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other catastrophes or natural disasters; impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport, or other means of public or private transport; impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks; acts, decrees, legislation, regulations, or restrictions of any government; compliance with a law or government order, rule, regulation, or direction; any failure of electronic transfer, computer equipment, software, communications systems; or any form of industrial action;
Connected means the following scenarios:

A Corporate Customer is connected with another Corporate Customer where (i) one Corporate Customer has Control of the other; (ii) both Corporate Customers are under the Control of the same person or group of persons; or (iii) both Corporate Customers have one or more of the same employees, directors, and/or shareholders;

A Corporate Customer is connected with an Individual if (i) the Individual has Control of the Corporate Customer; (ii) the Individual together with persons connected with the Individual has Control of the Corporate Customer; or (iii) the Individual is an employee, director, member, and/or shareholder of the Corporate Customer; and/or
An Individual (A) is connected with another Individual (B) if (i) A is B’s spouse or civil partner; (ii) A is a relative of B; (iii) A is the spouse or civil partner of a relative of B; (iv) A is a relative of B’s spouse or civil partner; or (v) A is the spouse or civil partner of a relative of B’s spouse or civil partner;

Consumer means any natural person acting for purposes outside his trade, business, or profession;

Control means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 10% of the voting interests of the Corporate Customer;

Corporate Customer means any customer of ours that is not a natural person;

Customer means an Individual or Corporate Customer with whom Heado has entered into an agreement to provide services;

EEA means the European Economic Area, comprising the member states of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein;

EFTA means the European Free Trade Association consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

Electronic Money Regulations mean the Directive 2009/110/EC and Directive (EU) 2015/2366; Electronic Money Laws 81(I)/2012 and 30(I)/2018; The Provision and Use of Payment Services and Access to Payment Systems Laws of 2018 to 2023; with appropriate amendments;

E-money or Electronic Money means monetary value stored in electronic form, including magnetically form in your Altery e-wallet.

E-Money Services means the issue by us of electronic money to our Customer’s Altery Account and the redemption of such electronic money at the request of the Customer;

EU means the European Union (EU) member states.

Fees List means the list of fees charged by us from time to time that is on our Website and displayed in your Altery Account;

Deposit Protection Scheme or DPS means a government-backed scheme that provides protection and compensation to you in the event that financial institutions authorised by the Central Bank of Cyprus fail or become insolvent;

Individual means a natural person that is a customer of ours;

Inactive Account means an Altery account that has not been used for Payment Services or to request any Service from us for 3 consecutive months;

Intellectual Property Rights means (i) rights in, and in relation to, any trademarks, logos, patents, registered designs, design rights, rights in computer software, copyright, and related rights, moral rights, databases, domain names, utility models, and including registrations and applications for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights, and similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world; (ii) rights in the nature of unfair competition rights and to sue for passing off and for past infringement; and (iii) trade secrets, confidentiality, and other proprietary rights, including rights to know-how and other technical information; (iv) all other intellectual property rights of any kind whether or not they are registered or unregistered in any country in the world.

Identifier means a sequence of letters, numbers, and/or symbols used to identify the other party to a Transaction or their account;

Know Your Customer or KYC, means the process of verifying the identity and other relevant information of you for provisioning you with an Altery Account or during your usage of your Altery Account;

Large Enterprise means a business which is not a Micro Enterprise;

Limits means the Services limits and restrictions which apply in relation to your Altery Account from time to time as set out in the Limits List that is available from your Altery Account;

Micro Enterprise means a business (which includes sole traders)

which meets the following criteria or such amended criteria as shall be adopted by the CBC from time to time: employs fewer than 10 persons; and
has a turnover or annual balance sheet that does not exceed €2 million;

Mobile App means any mobile application software that we may make available to you through which you can access your Altery Account, that we make available for download on Google Play, the Apple App Store, or equivalent platforms from time to time;

Other Services mean such other services in connection with your Altery Account that we may make available to you from time to time.

Payment Services means:

the transfer of electronic money from your Altery Account to third parties or to other accounts of yours;
the receipt into your Altery Account of electronic money from other accounts of yours or from those of third parties; and
the transfer of electronic money from your account held by Heado to any Card;

Payment Services Provider or PSP, means a provider of payment services, including us, including without limitation credit institutions, electronic money institutions and payment institutions, as defined in the relevant laws and regulations;

Prohibited Activities, means any activity in connection with your Altery Account that we may determine in our absolute discretion to be prohibited (the list can be found on the Website, and we reserve the right to make changes without notice);

Safeguarding means obligation to identify and keep client funds segregated and protected from all other funds that the Company may receive for the purpose of the provision of a payment service;

Services means the e-Money Services and/or the Payment Services as applicable;

Terms means these Terms and Conditions;

Third party means any other natural or legal person other than the parties under this agreement;

Transaction means an act, initiated by a payer or recipient, of placing, transferring, or withdrawing funds, including transfers between your Altery Account to another account you hold;

UK means the United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Website means www.altery.com (or any other website through which we operate and which we notify you about from time to time) through which, among other things, you can access your Altery Account;

Writing means in written form including email.

1.8 A reference to any statute, statutory provision, or regulation will be construed as a reference to the same as it may be amended, modified, or re-enacted from time to time.

1.9 Headings are included for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Terms.

1.10 The singular includes the plural and vice versa.

1.2 The Terms are valid and bound by both parties throughout the duration of the service relation, from the date of the opening of an Altery Account until the Altery account closure.

1.3 Documents or information that appear on the Altery Website (www.altery.com (or any other website through which we operate and which we notify you about from time to time)) and that we refer to in these Terms (for example the Fees List) are incorporated into the Terms and form part of your agreement with us. These Terms govern your use of the Services and how we provide you with the Services.

1.4 You can:
(a) get a current version of these Terms in the legal documents section of our Website; or
(b) contact us (see paragraph 23) and ask us to send you a paper copy of the current Terms.

1.5 All information and documents we provide or make available to you will be in English and ongoing communications with you will be in English. If these Terms are translated into another language, it is for reference purposes only. Any reference in such a translation to an English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, official or any legal concept or thing shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than Cyprus, be deemed to include a reference to that which most nearly approximates to the English legal term in that jurisdiction.

1.7 The capitalised expressions in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them below:
Account Access Details mean all your log-in details, passwords, personal identification number or any other identification or security features relating to your use of the Altery Account that are provided to you or that you may be asked to set up by us from time to time;
Altery Account means the electronic money account you open and maintain with us in connection with the Services and which is available to access and view either through our Website, our App or the API;
Account Opening Fee means a fee that we may charge you before opening your Altery Account.
API means the application programme interface which we can make available to you and through which you can access your Altery Account and use the Services;
Application Form means the form you complete in order to apply for the Services;
Approved Currency means any currency approved by us from time to time for holding funds in the Altery Account;
Authorised User means, in relation to a Corporate Customer, any natural person that you have authorised to access your Altery Account and/or provide us with instructions on your behalf;
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a bank holiday in the Republic of Cyprus. For another party such as the recipient when you make a payment, it will mean a day on which that other party's Payment Service Provider (PSP) is open for business, and carrying out Transactions;
Card means any card or cards issued to a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a bank holiday in England or Estonia that is or are linked to your Altery Account;
Card Terms mean the terms and conditions governing your use of the Card from time to time, which can be found in the legal documents section of our Website;
Circumstances Beyond Our Control means abnormal and unforeseen circumstances beyond our control and include without limitation, acts of God; expropriation or confiscation of facilities; strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action; local or national emergency, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, any form of war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war; fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other catastrophes or natural disasters; impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport; impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks; acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government; compliance with a law or government order, rule, regulation or direction; any failure of electronic transfer, computer equipment, software, communications systems; or any form of industrial action;
Connected means the following scenarios:

A Corporate Customer is connected with another Corporate Customer where (i) one Corporate Customer has Control of the other; (ii) both Corporate Customers are under the Control of the same person or group of persons; or (iii) both Corporate Customers have one or more of the same employees, directors and/or shareholders;

A Corporate Customer is connected with an Individual if (i) the Individual has Control of the Corporate Customer; (ii) the Individual together with persons connected with the Individual has Control of the Corporate Customer; or (iii) the Individual is an employee, director, member and/or shareholder of the Corporate Customer; and/or
An Individual (A) is connected with another Individual (B) if (i) A is B’s spouse or civil partner; (ii) A is a relative of B; (iii) A is the spouse or civil partner of a relative of B; (iv) A is a relative of B’s spouse or civil partner; or (v) A is the spouse or civil partner of a relative of B’s spouse or civil partner;

Consumer means any natural person acting for purposes outside his trade, business or profession;

Control means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 10% of the voting interests of the Corporate Customer;

Corporate Customer means any customer of ours that is not a natural person;

Customer means an Individual or Corporate Customer with whom Heado has interred into an agreement to provide services;

EEA means the European Economic Area, comprising the member states of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein;

EFTA means the European Free Trade Association consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

E-money or Electronic Money means monetary value stored in electronic form, including magnetically form in your Altery e-wallet.

E-Money Services means the issue by us of electronic money to our Customer’s Altery Account and the redemption of such electronic money at the request of the Customer;

EU means the European Union (EU) member states.

Fees List means the list of fees charged by us from time to time that is on our Website and displayed in your Altery Account;

Individual means a natural person that is a customer of ours;

Inactive Account means an Altery account that has not been used for Payment Services or to request any Service from us for consecutive 3 months;

Intellectual Property Rights means (i) rights in, and in relation to, any trademarks, logos, patents, registered designs, design rights, rights in computer software, copyright and related rights, moral rights, databases, domain names, utility models, and including registrations and applications for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights, and similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world; (ii) rights in the nature of unfair competition rights and to sue for passing off and for past infringement; and (iii) trade secrets, confidentiality and other proprietary rights, including rights to know how and other technical information; (iv) all other intellectual property rights of any kind whether or not they are registered or unregistered in any country in the world.

Identifier means a sequence of letters, numbers and/or symbols used to identify the other party to a Transaction or their account;

Know Your Customer or KYC, means the process of verifying the identity and other relevant information of you for provisioning you with Altery Account or during your usage of your Altery Account;

Large Enterprise means a business which is not a Micro Enterprise;

Limits means the Services limits and restrictions which apply in relation to your Altery Account from time to time as set out in the Limits List that is available from your Altery Account;

Micro Enterprise means a business (which includes sole traders)

which meets the following criteria or such amended criteria as shall be adopted by the CBC from time to time: employs fewer than 10 persons; and
has a turnover or annual balance sheet that does not exceed €2 million;

Other Services mean such other services in connection with your Altery Account that we may make available to you from time to time.

Payment Services means:

the transfer of electronic money from your Altery Account to third parties or to other accounts of yours;
the receipt into your Altery Account of electronic money from other accounts of yours or from those of third parties; and
the transfer of electronic money from your account held by Heado to any Card;

Safeguarding means obligation to identify and keep client funds segregated and protected from all other funds that the Company may receive for the purpose of the provision of a payment service;

Services means the e-Money Services and/or the Payment Services as applicable;

Terms means these Terms and Conditions;

Third party means any other natural or legal person other than the parties under this agreement;

Transaction means an act, initiated by a payer or recipient, of placing, transferring, or withdrawing funds, including transfers between your Altery Account to another account you hold;

UK means the United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Website means www.altery.com (or any other website through which we operate and which we notify you about from time to time) through which, among other things, you can access your Altery Account;

Writing means in written form including email.

1.8 A reference to any statute, statutory provision or regulation will be construed as a reference to the same as it may be amended, modified or re-enacted from time to time.

1.9 Headings are included for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Terms.

1.10 The singular includes the plural and vice versa.

OPENING AN ALTERY ACCOUNT

2.1 You can apply to open an Altery Account provided that:

(a) If you are an individual, you must be at least 18 years of age or older and have the full capacity to enter a contract. We may ask you at any time to show proof of your age. In addition, you must reside within the EU, EEA or EFTA, and we can ask you at any time to show proof of your permanent residency.

(b) If you are applying on behalf of a Corporate Customer,

(i) you confirm to our satisfaction that you have authority to bind any legal entity on whose behalf you use and/or access our Services and that legal entity accepts these Terms,

(ii) you can authorize others to access, use or operate your Altery Account or otherwise use our Services on behalf of a business (but not by or on behalf of an individual) (an “Authorized User”) in accordance with clause 16 of the Terms.

(c) You represent and warrant that your opening of an Altery Account does not violate any laws or regulations applicable to you.

(d) You pay any such Account Opening Fee as we may prescribe from time to time, details of which will be set out in our Fees.

2.2 All natural or legal persons availing themselves of Heado's services are considered customers even if they do so on only a one-off or occasional basis. Customers consent to being subjected to the rules governing the identification of clients pursuant to the Prevention and Suppression of Money Laundering Activities Laws of 2007-2021 preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism and restricting the use of cash and all other relevant sources of law ("AML Law"). Customers undertake to identify themselves and their place of legal residence and, where appropriate, their corporate registered office and any administrative headquarters by presenting official documents attesting to their identity. They consent to Heado Ltd (and any other legal entities within the group of which Heado Ltd forms part) making copies of them on either paper or an electronic data carrier and keeping them on file. Heado Ltd may at any time require foreign identification documents to be translated at clients' expense (by a sworn translator where Heado Ltd deems necessary). Customers empower Heado Ltd to verify the authenticity of their documents and the correctness of their identification details with public or private bodies such as the National Register. Heado Ltd may also require clients to submit requisite documentary evidence to substantiate the origin of funds and/or to furnish signed statements setting out the reasons for particular transactions. Customers must immediately notify us in writing or through the permitted digital channels of any changes to the information submitted and/or enter these changes themselves via the appropriate digital channels.

2.3 You cannot open or hold an Altery Account or make use of the Services if
(a) it is not lawful to do so in your country of residence or country of incorporation if you are a Corporate Customer; and/or
(b) you are a resident of, or if you are a Corporate Customer incorporated in, a country where we do not provide Services (the list of approved countries can be found on the Website, and we reserve the right to make changes without notice).

2.4 We may in our sole discretion decide to restrict or discontinue our Services in
(a) any country or region identified by us as high risk; and
(b) other countries or region(s) at any time and without prior notice. A list of these countries or regions will also be set out on the Website.

2.5 By completing an Application Form, you warrant and represent on an ongoing basis that all the information in the Application Form is complete, accurate and correct. You must notify us immediately of any changes to this information. Failure to do so may be treated by us as a material breach of these Terms, entitling us to temporarily suspend and/or terminate the Services. You accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result from our taking that step.

2.6 You may only open and hold one Altery Personal Account at any one time and maintain one profile. Each Altery Account holder is individually bound to the Terms.

2.7 If we detect that you have opened more than one Altery Account, we may close or merge all of your Altery Accounts. You acknowledge and accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result from our taking that step.

2.8 You will not be able to switch your account type, meaning that if you open a personal account, you will not be able to change its type to a corporate account, and vice versa.

2.9 All activities under an Altery Account shall be deemed as activities carried out by you. You agree to only use the Services to transact on your own Altery Account and not on behalf of any other person or entity. Individual Altery Account holders may not allow others to access or use the Services or an Altery Account on their behalf.

2.10 Your Altery Account will hold funds in one or more of the Approved Currencies as designated by you when you set up your Altery Account with us.

2.11 Once we have loaded funds to your Altery Account, they can be redeemed by you only as set out in these Terms.

2.12 If you have not used your Altery Account for Payment Services or to request any Service from us for any period of 6 consecutive months or more, we will consider it dormant and may suspend your access to the Services. In these circumstances, we may also charge a dormancy fee of 1.99 EUR for personal customers in the United Kingdom and European Union, based on your last provided data, and a fee of 4.99 EUR for personal customers in the rest of the world. Depending on the period of time your Altery Account is dormant, we may ask you to re-submit information in order for us to carry out our “Know Your Customer” or other similar checks. In those circumstances, you will not be able to use the Altery Account until we have completed such checks to our satisfaction.

CARD SERVICES

3.1 We may decide to issue you with a Card as a result of your request for our Card services. The availability of Card services for our customers is stated on our website from time to time. You must use any Card in accordance with the separate Altery Card Terms & Conditions.

You can use your Card to buy goods and/or services. You can spend funds from your Card using your Altery Account and any other methods listed on the Website.

3.2 We are entitled to recover
(a) any shortfall of funds on your Card from your Altery Account balance in any available currency; and
(b) any shortfall of funds in your Altery Account balance from the funds on your Card in any available currency.

3.3 You can have more than one Card linked to your Altery Account (for example, a Euro-denominated Card and a US Dollar-denominated Card) and any reference in these Terms or in the Card Terms to a Card would apply to all your Cards.

3.4 You will not be able to use an Altery Card without an Altery Account opened in your name (KYC checks must be completed).

You can use your Card to buy goods and/or services. You can spend funds from your Card using your Altery Account and any other methods listed on the Website.

3.3 You can have more than one Card linked to your Altery Account (for example, a Euro denominated Card and a US Dollar denominated Card) and any reference in these Terms or in the Card Terms to a Card would apply to all your Cards.

3.4 You will not be able to use an Altery Card without an Altery Account opened in your name (KYC checks must be completed).

OUR SERVICES

4.1 Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may use your Altery Account:

(a) to hold, send and receive funds in an Approved Currency;

(b) to redeem e-money in the Altery Account, and to receive and make payments; and

(d) for any other Services always provided that you do not carry out any illegal behaviour and do not use the Altery Account in connection with any of the Prohibited Activities. We may treat the use of your Altery Account for any of the Prohibited Activities as a breach of these Terms that entitles us to suspend and/or terminate the Services. You accept that in these circumstances we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result in us taking that step.

4.2 We will keep reasonable records of the funds you hold in your Altery Account and of your Transactions using your Altery Account. A transaction history showing details of the payments you make and receive from your Altery Account, including a payment reference for each Transaction, the exchange rate applied when carrying out currency conversions and the fees chargeable is available for you to view and download once you have logged into your Account through our Website, the API or any Mobile App using your Account Access Details. That information may be viewed by Transaction or on consolidated statements of account for different monthly periods. You should check the Transaction history regularly and let us know if you have any concerns regarding its accuracy or if you do not recognise any of the Transactions listed.

4.3 You may only tell us to transfer electronic money from the balance available in your Altery Account. There is no overdraft facility available on the Altery Account. Accordingly, you must check the Account balance to make sure you have enough funds in your Altery Account to make any payment and to pay the fee we charge you for doing so before you tell us to make a payment. In the event that there are insufficient funds to make any payment and pay our fees, then the transfer will not be made. You acknowledge and accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result in us taking that step.

4.4 Funds in your Altery Account do not constitute a deposit and will not earn interest. Altery Account is an electronic money account and is not a bank or deposit account. Electronic money accounts are not allowed by the European Law to receive any paying interest. Electronic money is not a deposit or investment under the Cyprus Law and is therefore not protected by a deposit guarantee scheme or the investor compensation fund scheme that is provided for in Cyprus. Heado ensures that once it receives your funds they are held in a segregated account, and safeguarded in accordance with the Electronic Money Laws 81(I)/2012 and 30(I)/2018 and further supported by the Provision and Use of Payment Services and Access to Payment Systems Laws of 2018 to 2023; with appropriate amendments; until they are spent, withdrawn, or reimbursed to you, please refer to clause 19 of these Terms.

4.5 If, notwithstanding clause 4.3, for any reason your Altery Account goes into a negative balance, you are required to immediately repay such a negative balance by loading sufficient funds into your Altery Account to bring it back to at least a zero balance. We reserve the right to automatically offset a negative balance on your Altery Account against any fund transfers which you subsequently make to your Altery Account. We shall be entitled to charge you for any reasonable expenses we incur as a result of any negative balance on your Account. In the event that you fail to restore your Altery Account to at least a zero balance within thirty calendar days, then we reserve the right to suspend and/or terminate the Services and/or to close your Account. You acknowledge and accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result in us taking that step.

4.6 In the event that there are insufficient funds in your Altery Account to pay any fee that is due to us from time to time in connection with the Services, then we also reserve the right to immediately suspend the provision of all Services. We also reserve the right to automatically recover such fees from any fund transfers which you subsequently make to your Altery Account. In the event that you do not arrange for funds to be transferred into your Altery Account sufficient at least to meet the fees that are due within thirty calendar days, then we reserve the right to suspend and/or terminate the Services and/or to close your Account. You acknowledge and accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result in us taking that step.

4.7 We reserve the right to take such legal action against you as may be required to recover any losses (including costs) that we may incur, including payments or liabilities to third parties, as a result of a negative balance on your Altery Account or your inability to pay any fee that is due to us.

4.8 We may limit the value and/or the number of transfers of funds you can instruct us to make into or out of your Altery Account depending on your country of residence or country of incorporation (if you are a Corporate Customer) or if different to the country from which you operate, verification status, and other factors we might consider reasonable. Your current limits are shown in your Altery Account. We may change such limits from time to time, on written notice posted in your Altery Account.

RECEIVING PAYMENTS

5.1 You can receive money into your Altery Account using the methods we support from time to time, as set out on our Website.

5.2 We do not accept responsibility for money that you are loading onto your Altery Account until we have received it.

5.3 We may impose limits on the amount of money that you are allowed to upload from time to time.

5.4 Subject to clause 5.2, payments into your Altery Account will generally be available for you to use on the same Business Day as we receive it, unless:
(a) before crediting the Transaction on your Altery Account and making it available to you to use we are required to make a currency conversion involving one or more of the Approved Currencies, in which case clause 8 shall apply; and
(b) we reasonably require supporting documentation or information in respect of the Transaction, in order to be satisfied that it complies with applicable laws and requirements, in which case funds will not be available to you until such time as the required material is provided.

5.5 As soon as reasonably practicable after we receive a payment into your Altery Account we will supply you with:
(a) a reference so you can identify the payment and payer and any information that was transferred with the payment;
(b) the amount of the payment which we credit into your Altery Account;
(c) the fees you pay to receive the payment with a breakdown of the amount charged, if applicable;
(d) any supporting documentation that we may reasonably require in connection with the Transaction;
(e) where applicable, the exchange rate used and the amount of the Transaction before that currency conversion; and
(f) the credit value date.

5.6 You acknowledge that funds received into your Altery Account may be reversed. You agree that we may reverse a Transaction if required by law or regulation, if the payer or the payer’s bank or Payment Service Provider has charged back or otherwise reversed (or is reasonably likely to chargeback or otherwise reverse) a payment which was used to fund the payment to you. We may also reverse a payment made into your Altery Account if it was erroneously made due to an error. Before reversing the payment, we may restrict your access to your Altery Account whilst the reversal is being effected. You agree not to seek to reverse a payment onto your Altery Account unless we are in material breach of these Terms or unless there has been a payment to your Altery Account that was not authorized by you. If you do seek to reverse a payment, we may need to investigate the circumstances and reserve the right to deduct reasonable costs of this exercise from your Altery Account.

5.7 In some cases, we will credit your Altery Account before we have received the funds from the relevant Payment Service Provider or bank. If either we do not receive the funds from the bank or Payment Service Provider, or we subsequently reverse the payment in accordance with these Terms, we will deduct that amount from your Altery Account. Before reversing the payment, we may restrict your access to your Altery Account whilst the reversal is being effected.

5.1 You can receive money into your Altery Account using the methods we support from time to time, as set out on our Website.

5.2 We do not accept responsibility for money that you are loading onto your Altery Account until we have received it.

5.3 We may impose limits on the amount of money that you are allowed to upload from time to time.

5.6 You acknowledge that funds received into your Altery Account may be reversed. You agree that we may reverse a Transaction if required by law or regulation, if the payer or the payer’s bank or Payment Service Provider has charged back or otherwise reversed (or is reasonably likely to charge back or otherwise reverse) a payment which was used to fund the payment to you. We may also reverse a payment made into your Altery Account if it was erroneously made due to an error. Before reversing the payment, we may restrict your access to your Altery Account while the reverse is effected. You agree not to seek to reverse a payment onto your Altery Account unless we are in material breach of these Terms or unless there has been a payment to your Altery Account that was not authorized by you. If you do seek to reverse a payment, we may need to investigate the circumstances and reserve the right to deduct reasonable costs of this exercise from your Altery Account.

MAKING PAYMENTS

6.1 We will make payments from your Altery Account in accordance with the payment instructions you give us, unless we cannot do so for the reasons described in these Terms. You must give us instructions in accordance with these Terms. Once you submit a payment instruction, we consider that you have given us consent and authorized us to execute the transaction.

6.2 When you instruct us to pay another user, we will transfer the money from your Altery balance to the recipient’s account. You need to have enough available funds in your account to cover the amount of any payment or transaction you make plus any additional fees.

6.3 We are not responsible for money sent to the wrong recipient as a result of incorrect information provided by you. If you have provided wrong information to us, you may ask us to assist you in recovering the money, but we cannot guarantee you that these efforts will be successful.

6.4 When you make a payment, it is up to you to determine whether to send money to a particular recipient. Altery will not be liable for any loss if your transaction was executed in accordance with your instructions.

6.5 When you make a payment from your Altery Account, if you ask us, we will provide you with the following information:

(a) how long it will take us to make the payment (we will tell you the longest time we expect it to take us to do this);

(b) any fees you must pay to make the payment; and

6.6 Any information that we provide you with pursuant to clause 6.2(a) is an estimate only. You should always allow ample time for your transactions to be processed. We are not responsible for the amount of time that it may take for the payee’s Bank or payment provider (or equivalent) to process a transaction. We will not be responsible for any fees, costs or liabilities that you incur by reason of a payment taking longer than specified under clause 6.2(a). Furthermore, we will also not be responsible for any fees, costs or liabilities that you incur by reason of any delay in making the payment, whether or not caused by our acts or omissions or those of third parties.

6.7 As soon as reasonably practicable after we have made a payment from your Altery Account, we will supply you with:

(a) a reference to identify the payment and recipient

(b) the amount in the currency in which we made the payment from your Altery Account;

(d) where applicable, the exchange rate used and the amount of the Transaction after the relevant currency conversion; and

(e) the debit value date or the date of receipt of the payment.

6.8 Once we have received confirmation of your payment instruction, ordinarily you cannot revoke it unless we agree or unless the payment instruction is to make a payment on a specified future date. For payments other than those specified for a future date, where we agree to attempt to reverse the payment instruction, we will use reasonable endeavors to reverse the payment instruction, but we provide no guarantee that the reversal will be effected and will not be liable for any costs, losses or liabilities that you may incur as a result of the transaction not being reversed. For payments on a specified future date, you can revoke the payment instruction up until the end of the Business Day preceding the day on which you wish us to make the payment, unless we agree to accept a later instruction to revoke. Our charges for revocation of a payment instruction are set out in the Fees List. You shall also be responsible for any charges of third-party PSPs (that we or the recipient’s PSP used to perform the payment instruction) for any payment instruction that you wish to revoke. If you initiate a Transaction through a payment initiation service provider, you may not revoke the payment instruction after giving consent to the payment initiative service provider to initiate the payment.

6.9 Depending on the nature of the Transaction, not all Approved Currencies will be available to execute a relevant Transaction. In these circumstances, we will automatically change the Approved Currency to a currency from which the relevant Transaction can be executed without reference back to you.

6.5 When you make a payment from your Altery Account, if you ask us, we will provide you with the following information:

(a) how long it will take us to make the payment (we will tell you the longest time we expect it to take us to do this);

(b) any fees you must pay to make the payment; and

6.7 As soon as reasonably practicable after we have made a payment from your Altery Account, we will supply you with:

(a) a reference to identify the payment and recipient

(b) the amount in the currency in which we made the payment from your Altery Account;

(d) where applicable, the exchange rate used and the amount of the Transaction after the relevant currency conversion; and

(e) the debit value date or the date of receipt of the payment.

6.8 Once we have received confirmation of your payment instruction, ordinarily you cannot revoke it unless we agree or unless the payment instruction is to make a payment on a specified future date. For payments other than those specified for a future date, where we agree to attempt to reverse the payment instruction, we will use reasonable endeavours to reverse the payment instruction, but we provide no guarantee that the reversal will be effected and will not be liable for any costs, losses or liabilities that you may incur as a result of the transaction not being reversed. For payments on a specified future date, you can revoke the payment instruction up until the end of the Business Day preceding the day on which you wish us to make the payment, unless we agree to accept a later instruction to revoke. Our charges for revocation of a payment instruction are set out in the Fees List. You shall also be responsible for any charges of third-party PSPs (that we or the recipient’s PSP used to perform the payment instruction) for any payment instruction that you wish to revoke. If you initiate a Transaction through a payment initiation service provider, you may not revoke the payment instruction after giving consent to the payment initiative service provider to initiate the payment.

WHEN DO WE RECEIVE AND EXECUTE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE PAYMENTS?

7.1 We will consider any instruction for a Transaction to be authorised by you once you have given us consent to carry it out. You consent to making a payment by following the on-screen prompts when accessing your Altery Account and using one of the tools we make available for you to confirm instructions. The on-screen prompts will require you to provide the type of unique Identifier relevant in each circumstance. This will depend on whether the payment is to an account held with us, or to a payment account with another PSP.

7.2 We will ordinarily receive your payment instruction at the time you confirm it. If your Altery Account includes functionality that allows you to instruct us to carry out a payment on a specific day, when you use that functionality to make a payment, we will treat the time of receipt of the instruction as being on that specified day.

7.3 If the payment instruction is to pay another Altery Account, we action it at the time we receive your instruction. If it is an instruction for a Transaction to an account operated by another PSP, a payment in euro or in sterling (provided a sterling payment is executed wholly within the UK), it will generally reach its destination, at the latest, on the Business Day after the Business Day on which we receive your instruction. Other payments may take longer, generally up to 4 Business Days following the Business Day on which we receive your instruction. The time at which we will make other international payments depends on the timeframe for doing so and the business hours of the other PSP. The timeframes set out in this clause 7.3 are provided by way of guidance only. You should always allow ample time for your Transactions to be processed. We will not be responsible for any fees, costs or liabilities that you incur by reason of a payment taking longer than specified under clause 7.3. We will also not be responsible for any fees, costs or liabilities that you incur by reason of any delay in making the payment, whether or not caused by our acts or omissions or those of third parties.

7.4 We reserve the right in our sole discretion to refuse to carry out a payment instruction. Where we do that, unless prevented from doing so by law or regulation, we will endeavour to explain to you why we have declined to make a payment.

EXCHANGE RATES

8.1 If you receive a payment, including a refund, in a currency that is not one of the Approved Currencies for your Altery Account, we will convert it into EURO or such other currency as specified on our Website for these purposes. The conversion rate will be indicated by us following receipt of the payment, and you agree that we will apply that rate (which you are responsible for checking). If you do not agree with the conversion rate, then the Transaction will be reversed, and we may deduct any resulting costs or fees incurred from your Altery Account.

8.2 To make a Transaction in a currency that differs from an Approved Currency you hold in your Altery Account, you must agree to convert the amount into that other currency before you make the Transaction. We will show you our conversion rate for the currency you have chosen, and we will ask you to consent to a conversion before the conversion is carried out. Altery's conversion rate is based on the rate received from our FX rate provider(s) at the time we instruct the conversion, plus a margin to cover market fluctuations, which may result in a rate that is less favorable than the rate published by the European Central Bank (ECB).

8.3 All currency conversions use Altery’s current exchange rate, based on commercially available rates plus a margin. Rates are updated on an ongoing basis to keep the rate closer to global financial markets without notice to you. Note, our rates may be less favorable than those used by banks and other financial institutions. The conversion rate that we use will be indicated in your Altery Account when you agree to the conversion.

8.4 We reserve the right in our sole discretion to decline to make a currency conversion, whether or not concerning an Approved Currency. If we do that, unless we are prevented from doing so by law or regulation, we will endeavour to let you know why we have declined to make a conversion.

8.2 To make a Transaction in a currency that is different from an Approved Currency you hold in your Altery Account, you must agree to convert the amount into that other currency before you make the Transaction. We will show you our conversion rate for the currency you have chosen, and we will ask you to consent to a conversion before the conversion is carried out. Altery conversion rate is based on the rate received from our FX rate provider(s) at the time we instruct the conversion, plus a margin to cover market fluctuations, which may result in a rate that is worse than the rate published by the European Central Bank (ECB).

8.3 All currency conversions use Altery’s current exchange rate, based on commercially available rates plus a margin. Rates are updated on an ongoing basis to keep the rate closer to global financial markets without notice to you. Note, our rates may be less favourable than those used by banks and other financial institutions. The conversion rate that we use will be indicated in your Altery Account when you agree to the conversion.

8.4 We reserve the right in our sole discretion to decline to make a currency conversion, whether or not in respect of an Approved Currency. If we do that, unless we are prevented from doing so by law or regulation, we will endeavour to let you know why we have declined to make a conversion.

FEES AND CHARGES

9.1 The Fees List sets out the fees you must pay to us, including but not limited to loading your Altery Account or making Transactions. The fees we charge as set out in the Fees List and, with the exception ordering any Card, maintenance, and express delivery service fees, include any applicable value added tax. You authorise us to deduct applicable charges from your Altery Account.

9.2 If you have a Card, the fees charged for the use of the Card are separate from and in addition to the fees for the use of the Services. The fees charged for the use of the Card will be set out as provided in the separate card terms and conditions.

9.3 We deduct any fees for loading funds onto your Altery Account from the amount you want to load. This means the amount we load may be less than the amount you transfer to us.

9.4 Once you have loaded funds onto your Altery Account, when you instruct us to make a Transaction, we will transfer the full amount you instruct us to transfer and deduct any fees from the balance on the Altery Account. If there are insufficient funds in the Altery Account to make the payment and pay any fees related to it, we will not make the payment and will not deduct the fee. We will tell you that we have not made the payment and why. You accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result from us taking that step.

9.5 We may change the fees we charge from time to time in accordance with clause 28.

9.6 The new fees will be shown on the Fees List from the date they are in effect. We recommend you check the Fees List each time you use the Services.

9.7 We do not have to provide any Services at the wrong (lower) price shown in error on the Fees List, if the pricing error is obvious and clear and could have reasonably been recognised as an error.

9.8 Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, we may deduct from your Altery Account all fees charged by us, any reversal amounts and any other amounts owed by you to us.

9.9 If a payment you make from or receive into your Altery Account takes place with a PSP or payer that is in the EEA, we will only accept SHA Instructions, meaning that you will pay our charges (if any) and the recipient or payer of the Transaction (where relevant) will pay its charges (if any). Where the PSP of your recipient or a payer is outside the EEA, we may require in our absolute discretion that the charges for the Transaction are to be shared (SHA instruction) or to be fully allocated to either you (OUR instruction) or the recipient (BEN instruction). An OUR instruction means that you pay all the charges involved in a transaction where you are the payer, including the charges of the recipient's PSP. We will provide you with information on the costs of an OUR instruction before you decide to carry out the relevant Transaction.

9.10 Regardless of the type of instruction, you acknowledge that if we or the PSP of your recipient or payer have to use third party PSPs, those PSPs may also deduct their own charges from the amount of the Transaction.

9.11 You are responsible for any tax that may become due in any jurisdiction.

9.12 From time to time, we may offer you a different Fees List from those published on our Website and agreed upon between you and us. This Fees List is shown to you in your Altery Account via Web Portal, Mobile App or upon your request. The Fees List shown in your Altery Account is the most accurate and up-to-date for you, rather than the list published on the Website. You acknowledge that the fees shown in your Altery Account are confidential and shall not be disclosed to any third party without our written consent.

9.13 We may make a charge for additional services we provide outside these terms and conditions. We will notify you if there are fees applicable when you ask for the specific service.

9.1 The Fees List sets out the fees you must pay to us, including but not limited to loading your Altery Account or making Transactions. The fees we charge as set out in the Fees List and, with the exception of ordering any Card, maintenance, and express delivery service fees, include any applicable value added tax. You authorise us to deduct applicable charges from your Altery Account.

9.3 We deduct any fees for loading funds onto your Altery Account from the amount you want to load. This means the amount we load may be less than the amount you transfer to us.

9.4 Once you have loaded funds onto your Altery Account, when you instruct us to make a Transaction, we will transfer the full amount you instruct us to transfer and deduct any fees from the balance on the Altery Account. If there are insufficient funds in the Altery Account to make the payment and pay any fees related to it, we will not make the payment and will not deduct the fee. We will inform you that we have not made the payment and why. You accept that in these circumstances, we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may result from us taking that step.

9.5 We may change the fees we charge from time to time in accordance with clause 28.

9.6 The new fees will be displayed on the Fees List from the date they come into effect. We recommend you check the Fees List each time you use the Services.

9.7 We do not have to provide any Services at the incorrect (lower) price shown in error on the Fees List, if the pricing error is obvious and clear and could have reasonably been recognised as an error.

9.8 Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, we may deduct from your Altery Account all fees charged by us, any reversal amounts and any other amounts owed by you to us.

9.11 You are responsible for any tax that may become due in any jurisdiction.

9.12 From time to time, we may offer you a different Fees List from those published on our Website and approved between you and us. This Fees List is shown to you in your Altery Account via Web Portal, Mobile App or upon your request. The Fees List shown in your Altery Account is the most accurate and up-to-date for you, rather than the list published on the Website. You acknowledge that the fees shown in your Altery Account are confidential and shall not be disclosed to any third party without our written consent.

9.13 We may make a charge for additional services we provide outside these terms and conditions. We will notify you if there are fees applicable when you request the specific service.

YOUR OBLIGATIONS

10.1 When using the Services, you must:

(a) comply with the Terms and any other conditions applicable to our Services, instructions for the use of the Services, including any instructions in your Altery Account, or any operational or user documentation that we may make available to you, including all such information relating to the use of our Services available on our Website;

(b) regularly check the transactions history of your Altery Account and contact us immediately if you have any questions or concerns regarding its accuracy or if you do not recognize any of the Transactions listed;

(d) only use the Services for your own purposes, and not for the purposes of any third party;

(e) check that the instructions you give us to make a Transaction are accurate and correct;

(f) not use your Altery Account in connection with any activity that is a Prohibited Activity or any related activities or industries;

(g) not use your Altery Account and/or the Services in any unlawful way including money laundering or tax evasion (unlawful in this context means unlawful in the EU, EEA and EFTA and any jurisdiction relevant to a specific Transaction or your Altery Account generally including any jurisdiction in which you are registered, operate from or reside in and any jurisdiction to which a Transaction is made);

(h) answer any question we reasonably ask in connection with your use of the Services, including without limitation any question we may ask in order to validate a Transaction, the identity of the payer or recipient or the reason for the Transaction;

(i) not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Website, Mobile App, API, our servers, computers or databases; and

(j) not introduce any viruses or harmful code to our Website, Mobile App, API, servers, computers or databases.

10.2 You agree to indemnify, defend, reimburse or compensate us and hold us, our third-party providers, our employees or agents harmless from any claim or demand (including legal fees) made or incurred by any third party due to or arising out of:

(a) any failure by you to comply with paragraph 10.1 above;

(b) your use of the Altery Account and/or the Services;

(i) any information you give us (including "Know Your Customer" information);

(ii) any instruction you give in connection with the Services; and/or

(d) your breach of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

10.3 As a Cyprus authorized electronic money institution, we have obligations to the Central Bank of Cyprus and other regulatory bodies, as well as contractual obligations to financial institutions, including but not limited to card schemes and/or credit institutions, in order to deliver our Services. As part of this and our overall compliance and risk strategy, we do not wish to provide Services to persons or entities conducting certain activities, and our business model and Fees List reflect this approach. You acknowledge that this clause is fair and reasonable in the context of the primary purpose of us providing Services to you under these Terms.

10.1 When using the Services, you must:

(a) comply with the Terms and or any other conditions applicable to our Services, instructions for use of the Services, including any instructions in your Altery Account, or any operational or user documentation that we may make available to you, including all such information relating to the use of our Services available on our Website;

(b) regularly check the transactions history of your Altery Account and contact us immediately in case you have any questions or concerns regarding its accuracy or if you do not recognise any of the Transactions listed;

(d) only use the Services for your own purposes, and not for the purposes of any third party;

(e) check that the instructions you give us to make a Transaction are accurate and correct;

(f) not use your Altery Account in connection with any activity that is a Prohibited Activity or any related activities or industries;

(g) not use your Altery Account and/or the Services in any unlawful way including money laundering or tax evasion (unlawful in this context means unlawful in the EU, EEA and EFTA and any jurisdiction relevant to a specific Transaction or your Altery Account generally including any jurisdiction in which you are registered, operate from or are resident in and any jurisdiction to which a Transaction is made);

(i) not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, Mobile App, API, our servers, computers or databases; and

(j) not introduce any viruses or harmful code to our Website, Mobile App, API, servers, computers or databases.

10.2 You agree to indemnify, defend, reimburse or compensate us and hold us, our third party providers, our employees or agents harmless from any claim or demand (including legal fees) made or incurred by any third party due to or arising out of:

(a) any failure by you to comply with paragraph 10.1 above;

(b) your use of the Altery Account and/or the Services;

(i) any information you give us (including "Know Your Customer" information);

(ii) any instruction you give in connection with the Services; and/or

(d) your breach of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

10.3 As a Cyprus authorised electronic money institution, we have obligations to the Central Bank of Cyprus and other regulatory bodies, as well as contractual obligations to financial institutions, including but not limited to card schemes and/or credit institutions, in order to deliver our Services. As part of this and our overall compliance and risk strategy, we do not wish to provide Services to persons or entities conducting certain activities, and our business model and Fees List reflect this approach. You acknowledge that this clause is fair and reasonable in the context of the primary purpose of us providing Services to you under these Terms.

KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER CHECKS

11.1 Within the timeframe set out in any request, you will give us all documents, evidence and information that we reasonably request at any stage of your use of the Services, or during your application to use the Services. You will give us this information so that we have up-to-date information and can carry out and be satisfied that we have complied with all "Know Your Customer" or other similar checks required under all applicable laws and regulations. You authorise us to obtain one or more credit checks relating to you. The documents and information we may ask you for shall include, without limitation, any documents or other evidence concerning your identity or that of third parties or documentation evidencing the validity of a Transaction.

11.2 You acknowledge and agree that we may request or obtain the necessary documents or information to validate the information you provided to us, directly or through any third parties.

11.3 If there is:

(a) (in the case of an Individual) any change to your full name, citizenship or postal address;

(b) (in the case of a Corporate Customer) any change in your status, place of incorporation, registered address, or, where applicable, in the composition of your shareholders; or

(c) any change in the information provided in the Application Form; you must notify us and send us the documents evidencing such changes as soon as possible, so our records are up-to-date. If we discover that any of your information is incorrect, we will update it.

11.4 If there is:

(a) any change to the type of industry that your business operates in; or

(b) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after we have granted you an Altery Account, which obliges us to comply with "Know Your Customer" or similar identification procedures, in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to us, you will promptly give us all documents, evidence and information that we reasonably require (for ourselves and/or for any Card issuer). You will give us this information, so we can carry out and be satisfied we have complied with all "Know Your Customer" or other similar checks required under all applicable laws and regulations.

11.5 It is important to keep your details up to date and let us know immediately if

any information you have given us has changed. This is necessary to avoid possible disruption to your account services. We cannot be responsible for any financial loss arising out of your failure to do so.

11.6 You acknowledge that, in compliance with laws and regulations, we are

obliged to store all the information about you and your Transactions for at least 5 years after your Altery Account is terminated.

11.2 You acknowledge and agree that we may request or obtain the necessary documents or information to validate the information you provided to us, directly or through any third parties.

11.3 If there is:

(a) (in the case of an Individual) any change to your full name, nationality or postal address;

(b) (in the case of a Corporate Customer) any change in your status, place of incorporation, registered address, or, where applicable, in the composition of your shareholders; or

11.4 If there is:

(a) any change to the type of industry that your business operates in; or

11.5 It is important to keep your details up to date and let us know immediately if

11.6 You acknowledge that, in compliance with laws and regulations, we are

obliged to store all the information about you and your Transactions for at least 5 years after your Altery Account is terminated.

OUR RIGHT TO REVERSE, SUSPEND AND TERMINATE

12.1 We may terminate our services under this Agreement at any time by closing or blocking your account at our own discretion in exceptional circumstances including if:

(a) we have not been provided with any information that we have requested under clause 11 or the information, evidence or documentation provided is not satisfactory in our reasonable opinion;

(b) we are unable to verify your identity or other information we have required;

(d) we reasonably believe that your activities can cause damage to our goodwill or reputation;

(e) we have reasonable suspicion of unlawful, fraudulent or criminal activity concerning the use of the Services;

(f) we have reasonable grounds relating to security or credit risk in relation to your use of the Services;

(g) we have a reasonable belief that we are required to do so by contract or law or regulation, including to meet our legal obligations;

(h) we are no longer able to provide the Services due to a change in or termination of a service from our third party suppliers, or due to a change in the policies of those suppliers;

(i) we have a reasonable belief that any of the information you provided to us in your Application Form is incorrect, false or misleading ;

(j) we have a reasonable belief that you are using the Services for a different purpose than that notified to us by you;

(k) we have a reason to believe that you use the Apps in a way that might be harmful to our systems;

(l) you refuse to repay money you owe us within a reasonable period;

(m) you have been declared bankrupt;

(n) you do not use your account for 6 months and we are unable to communicate with you during this period;

(o) we suspect that your account has been accessed without your authorization or if we are concerned about the security of your account;

(p) we are given a direction to do so by any court, regulator or other competent regulatory, tax or other authority; and/or

(q) we terminate a third-party Customer’s Services in accordance with our rights set out under paragraphs 12.1 (a) to (p) and that third-party Customer is Connected to you, we may immediately:

(i) decline your application for any or all of the Services;

(ii) suspend or terminate any or all of the Services;

(iii) reverse any relevant Transaction;

(iv) withhold funds from you or restrict your access to funds or your Altery Account;

(v) refuse to make payments from or to your Altery Account; and/or

(vi) do anything else we reasonably consider necessary.

12.2 Without prejudice to clause 12.1, if you are a Corporate Customer, your account becomes dormant:

the account has not been the subject of any transaction (except for the debiting of fees and commissions of all kinds) for six (6) consecutive months;
the customer is deceased and at the end of six (6) consecutive months from the date of death none of his heirs has informed us of his wish to assert his rights on the assets and deposits registered on the accounts of the deceased.

For your account to no longer be identified as dormant, we must witness a manifestation on your part:

you just need to log in to your account with your password and perform an operation on your account. We may ask you to re-submit information in order for us to carry out our “Know Your Customer” or other similar checks. In those circumstances, you will not be able to use the Altery Account until we have completed such checks to our satisfaction;
if you are the heir of a deceased customer, simply contact us by email, attaching the supporting documents relating to your status as heir (death certificate of the holder, certificate of inheritance, etc.).

12.3 We will inform you about any such actions we take, unless we have a reasonable belief that we are prevented from doing so by law or regulation, or we believe that doing so would compromise our anti-fraud or security measures.

12.4 When we withhold funds from you or restrict your access to funds in accordance with these Terms, the subsequent release of or access to those funds is at our sole discretion. Any termination by you of your Altery Account will not be valid as a cause of action for the release of the funds, and you waive any rights to terminate in the event of your own breach of these Terms.

12.5 We may terminate the provision of any or all of the Services at any time and close your Altery Account, for any reason, by giving you at least 2 months prior written notice. We will give you written notice of such action to the last Telegram account or email address, as the case may be, that you have provided to us, which shall be deemed sufficient notice. This right is without prejudice to our rights to terminate the Services and close your Altery Account with immediate effect without such written notice in the event that you breach the Terms or otherwise as specified in these Terms.

12.6 If we terminate the provision of the Services and close your Altery Account we will ask you to provide us details of where you would like us to transfer the balance to, provided that your chosen option is available and there is no limit or other restriction for us to do so, after deducting any fees due and payable by you. We will ordinarily transfer such funds to another account in your name only. Before making this transfer, we will deduct any remaining charges in respect of the Account.

12.7 If we terminate the provision of the Services and close your Altery Account any of your or our rights or liabilities which have accrued prior to the closure of the Altery Account shall continue until fully discharged by the relevant party, save for any rights or liabilities which are expressed to continue after the termination of your Altery Account.

12.8 If we hold Electronic Money for you for more than two years (if you are an individual) or for more than 12 consecutive months (if you are a Corporate Customer) without any activity on the account, we shall use reasonable endeavours to contact you to redeem the Electronic Money and return the corresponding funds to you. If we are unable to contact you, we may redeem the Electronic Money and send the corresponding funds, less any of our costs incurred, to the last known bank account we have on file for you.

12.9 For any alert to indicate possible suspicious activity or transactions or possible fraud within the account, Heado may hold the outstanding balance until an investigation is concluded and as instructed by a regulator or authorised body.

12.10 If we close your account due to a breach of our terms and conditions, we will contact you to request details of your bank account to return any balance remaining within your account. If you do not provide bank account details for the remaining balance to be returned, after an eight-week period the funds minus applicable charges will be returned where possible to the originator of those initial transactions.

12.1 We may terminate our services under this Agreement at any time by closing or blocking your account at our own discretion in exceptional circumstances including if:

(a) we have not been provided with any information that we have requested under clause 11 or the information, evidence or documentation provided is not satisfactory in our reasonable opinion;

(b) we are unable to verify your identity or other information we have required;

(d) we reasonably believe that your activities can cause damage to our goodwill or reputation;

(e) we have reasonable suspicion of unlawful, fraudulent or criminal activity concerning the use of the Services;

(f) we have reasonable grounds relating to security or credit risk in relation to your use of the Services;

(g) we have a reasonable belief that we are required to do so by contract or law or regulation, including to meet our legal obligations;

(h) we are no longer able to provide the Services due to a change in or termination of a service from our third-party suppliers, or due to a change in the policies of those suppliers;

(i) we have a reasonable belief that any of the information you provided to us in your Application Form is incorrect, false or misleading;

(j) we have a reasonable belief that you are using the Services for a different purpose than that notified to us by you;

(k) we have a reason to believe that you use the Apps in a way that might be harmful to our systems;

(l) you refuse to repay money you owe us within a reasonable period;

(m) you have been declared bankrupt;

(n) you do not use your account for 6 months and we are unable to communicate with you during this period;

(o) we suspect that your account has been accessed without your authorization or if we are concerned about the security of your account;

(p) we are given a direction to do so by any court, regulator or other competent regulatory, tax or other authority; and/or

(q) we terminate a third-party Customer’s Services in accordance with our rights set out under paragraphs 12.1 (a) to (p) and that third-party Customer is Connected to you, we may immediately:

(i) decline your application for any or all of the Services;

(ii) suspend or terminate any or all of the Services;

(iii) reverse any relevant Transaction;

(iv) withhold funds from you or restrict your access to funds or your Altery Account;

(v) refuse to make payments from or to your Altery Account; and/or

(vi) do anything else we reasonably consider necessary.

12.2 Without prejudice to clause 12.1, if you are a Corporate Customer, your account becomes dormant:

the account has not been the object of any transaction (except for debiting of fees and commissions of all kinds) for six (6) consecutive months;
the customer is deceased and at the end of six (6) consecutive months from the date of death none of his heirs has informed us of his wish to assert his rights on the assets and deposits registered on the accounts of the deceased.

In order for your account to no longer be identified as dormant, we must witness a manifestation on your part:

you just need to log in to your account with your password and perform an operation on your account. We may ask you to re-submit information in order for us to carry out our “Know Your Customer” or other similar checks. In those circumstances, you will not be able to use the Altery Account until we have completed such checks to our satisfaction;
if you are the heir of a deceased customer, simply contact us by email, attaching the supporting documents relating to your status as heir (death certificate of the holder, certificate of inheritance, etc.).

12.3 We will let you know about any such actions we take, unless we have a reasonable belief that we are prevented from doing so by law or regulation, or we believe that doing so would compromise our anti-fraud or security measures.

12.5 We may terminate the provision of any or all of the Services at any time and close your Altery Account, for any reason, by giving you at least 2 months prior written notice. We will give you written notice of such action to the last Telegram account or email address, as the case may be, that you have given to us, which shall be deemed sufficient notice. This right is without prejudice to our rights to terminate the Services and close your Altery Account with immediate effect without such written notice in the event that you breach the Terms or otherwise as specified in these Terms.

YOUR RIGHT TO CLOSE YOUR ALTERY ACCOUNT

13.1 You may close your Altery Account by giving us written notice as set out in clause 23 below. Please ensure that any available balances on your

Altery Account are withdrawn prior to the closure request of your account.

13.2 You may not instruct us to carry out any Services after you have instructed us to close your Altery Account. However, we will carry out any instructions in accordance with these Terms that you have given us for any Services prior to your instruction to close your Altery Account.

13.3 When you give us notice to close your Altery Account, you will not be entitled to a refund of any Transactions you have made or of any fees that you may have incurred on the Altery Account, which are then due and payable by you. We may deduct these fees from the balance on your Altery Account. We will close your Altery Account after all amounts have been paid by you or deducted by us from your Altery Account. We will ask you to provide us with details of where you would like us to transfer the balance to, provided that your chosen option is available and there is no limit or other restriction for us to do so, after deducting any fees due and payable by you. We will ordinarily transfer such funds to another account in your name only.

13.4 You must not close your Altery Account to avoid an investigation. If you attempt to do that, we may hold your money until the investigation is fully completed in order to protect our interests and meet our legal obligations.

13.5 In the event that you close your account, you agree to the following:

(a) you will not be able to avail yourself of Heado services;

(b) we shall redeem any electronic money we hold for you and send the equivalent funds to a bank account in your name, unless agreed by both parties, less the monies which are due and owing to us;

(d) any pending transactions will be cancelled and any instructions for recurring payments will be withdrawn;

(e) the balance in your account, if any, will be fully withdrawn/redeemed at the time of the account closing

(f) the terms and conditions agreement should be terminated, except to the extent and for so long as we require to deal with the closure of your account and to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

(g) Heado has the right to hold the balance in your account for a period of 180 calendar days from the day you close your account, in order to protect ourselves and any third party against any potential claims of reversals, fines, penalties and other liabilities that stem from the use of your account while it was active. After this time, you will be able to withdraw any undisputed funds we are holding.

(h) after your account is closed you will remain liable for any outstanding obligations related to your account prior to closure.

13.1 You may close your Altery Account by giving us a written notice as set out in clause 23 below. Please ensure that any available balances on your

Altery Account are withdrawn prior to the closure request of your account.

13.3 When you give us notice to close your Altery Account, you will not be entitled to a refund of any Transactions you have made or of any fees that you may have incurred on the Altery Account, which are then due and payable by you. We may deduct these fees from the balance on your Altery Account. We will close your Altery Account after all amounts have been paid by you or deducted by us from your Altery Account. We will ask you to provide us details of where you would like us to transfer the balance to, provided that your chosen option is available and there is no limit or other restriction for us to do so, after deducting any fees due and payable by you. We will ordinarily transfer such funds to another account in your name only.

13.5 In case you close your account, you agree to the following:

(a) you will not be able to avail yourself of Heado services;

(b) we shall redeem any electronic money we hold for you and send the equivalent funds to a bank account in your name, unless agreed by both parties, less the monies which are due and owing to us;

(d) any pending transactions will be cancelled and any instructions for recurring payments will be withdrawn;

(e) the balance in your account, if any, will be fully withdrawn/redeemed at the time of the account closing

(h) after your account is closed you will remain liable for any outstanding obligations related to your account prior to closure.

REFUSING A PAYMENT

14.1 We may refuse to carry out any instruction from you or refuse to accept funds into your Altery Account if:

(a) you are in breach of these Terms;

(b) we believe the relevant Transaction is or may be contrary to our policies;

(c) we believe it is or may be unlawful to carry out your instructions or to accept the funds (unlawful in this context means unlawful in the EU\EEA and any jurisdiction relevant to a specific Transaction or your Altery Account generally, including any jurisdiction in which you are registered, operate from or are resident in and any jurisdiction to which a Transaction is made);

(d) our third party payment providers have refused the relevant Transaction for whatever reason. If a third party payment provider refuses to execute the relevant Transaction, they may return the relevant funds less an amount equal to their charges for processing the Transaction, even if they reject the Transaction. You cannot recover any such amount from us;

(e) you do not have enough money in your Altery Account balance;

(f) you do not provide us with all mandatory information requested in a payment instruction;

(g) the payment exceeds your spending limit;

(h) if we have a legal or regulatory obligation that prevents us from making the payment or if we are required to perform further checks;

(i) if your account has specific restrictions;

(j) if you have been declared bankrupt, if a bankruptcy order was made against you or if you have entered an individual voluntary arrangement with your creditors;

(k) if your account is blocked for any other reason.

14.2 If we refuse to carry out an instruction, we will tell you at the time we refuse to make the payment and the reasons why, unless it is unlawful for us to do so. Where it is possible to rectify the reason for our refusal, we will tell you how to remedy the issue.

14.3 We will treat a payment instruction which we refuse as not having been received by us, and these Terms will therefore not apply to such payment instructions. We shall not be liable for any losses you suffer as a result of us refusing a payment instruction.

14.1 We may refuse to carry out any instruction from you or refuse to accept funds into your Altery Account if:

(a) you are in breach of these Terms;

(b) we believe the relevant Transaction is or may be contrary to our policies;

(e) you do not have enough money in your Altery Account balance;

(f) you do not provide us with all mandatory information requested in a payment instruction;

(g) the payment exceeds your spending limit;

(h) if we have a legal or regulatory obligation that prevents us from making the payment or if we are required to perform further checks;

(i) if your account has specific restrictions;

(j) if you have been declared bankrupt, if a bankruptcy order was made against you or if you have entered an individual voluntary arrangement with your creditors;

(k) if your account is blocked for any other reason.

14.2 If we refuse to carry out an instruction, we will inform you at the time we refuse to make the payment and the reasons why, unless it is unlawful for us to do so. Where it is possible to rectify the reason for our refusal, we will inform you how to remedy the issue.

KEEPING YOUR SECURITY DETAILS SAFE

15.1 You must (and in relation to Corporate Customers, you must ensure that your Authorised Users):

(a) treat the funds held in your Altery Account as carefully as you would treat cash in your wallet; and

(b) from the time you receive them, keep all your Account Access Details safe and secure. To avoid your Account Access Details being used by someone else, you must treat them as confidential, so you must not disclose them to anyone else, and you must not keep a written record of them that identifies them and how to use them. You must keep and use your Account Access Details in accordance with our instructions available on the Website.

We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which arises in connection with your accessing this Website or any other website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that you are not exposed to the risk of viruses or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system.

15.2 Use of the Altery Account by someone other than you (or in the case of a Corporate Customer, an Authorised User) may mean you lose some or all of the electronic money credited to your Altery Account or may result in activities on the account that are in breach of these Terms. We will treat any such breach of Terms in the same way as if you had breached the Terms.

15.3 If you (or an Authorised User in the case of a Corporate Customer) suspect any Account Access Details have been lost, stolen, misappropriated, used without authorisation or otherwise compromised, you must contact us immediately by using the internal ticket system on our Website or by email to [email protected] to change your Account Access Details. If you allow another person (other than an Authorised User in the case of a Corporate Customer) to access your Altery Account, we will treat this as if you have authorised such use, and you will be liable for all Transactions and fees incurred by such use.

15.4 We may stop you or, in relation to a Corporate Customer, any Authorised User using any Account Access Details if we have reasonable grounds to believe they are no longer confidential to you or the Authorised User as applicable or have been used fraudulently or without your authorisation. If possible, we will notify you by email, telephone or SMS using the latest contact details you have supplied to us before we stop you from using such identification or security feature, to tell you that we intend to do so and why.

15.5 If we cannot contact you before we stop the use of the Account Access Details, we will do so as soon as reasonably practicable afterwards. We will not contact you to tell you we intend or have stopped the use of the Account Access Details, if we are prevented from doing so by law or if it would adversely affect our reasonable security measures. We will either reinstate the Account Access Details as soon as practicable after the reasons for stopping its use have ceased or, at that time, issue you with replacement Account Access Details to use. When the reasons for us stopping your use of the Account Access Details cease, unless we have already issued you with replacement Account Access Details, you can contact us at any time using the internal ticket system on our Website or by email to [email protected] to request that we allow you to use the Account Access Details again. We, our agents and/or the police may ask you to assist us as part of our or their inquiries where your Altery Account has been used by someone other than you without your consent.

15.6 In some cases, we may ask you to authenticate an instruction related to your account. This is necessary to ensure that it’s you giving us the instruction. This could include your email and password in order to successfully log into your account to provide us with your instruction.

15.7 If your security credentials are stolen, lost, used without authorisation or compromised, you should immediately contact us using available contact information on our website and change your password without delay.

15.1 You must (and in relation to Corporate Customers, you must procure that your Authorised Users):

(a) treat the funds held in your Altery Account as carefully as you would treat cash in your wallet; and

(b) from the time you receive them, keep all your Account Access Details safe and secure. To avoid your Account Access Details being used by someone else you must treat them as confidential, so you must not disclose them to anyone else, and you must not keep a written record of them which identifies them and how to use them. You must keep and use your Account Access Details in accordance with our instructions available on the Website.

We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which arises in connection with your accessing of this Website or any other website. You must take your own precautions to ensure that you are not exposed to the risk of viruses or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system.

15.3 If you (or an Authorised User in the case of a Corporate Customer) suspect any Account Access Details have been lost, stolen, misappropriated, used without authorisation or otherwise compromised, you must contact us immediately by using the internal ticket system on our Website or by email to [email protected] to change your Account Access Details. If you allow another person (other than an Authorised User in the case of a Corporate Customer) to have access to your Altery Account, we will treat this as if you have authorised such use, and you will be liable for all Transactions and fees incurred by such use.

15.4 We may stop you or, in relation to a Corporate Customer, any Authorised User using any Account Access Details if we have reasonable grounds to believe they are no longer confidential to you or the Authorised User as applicable or have been used fraudulently or without your authorisation. If possible, we will notify you by email, telephone or SMS using the latest contact details you have supplied to us before we stop you using such identification or security feature, to tell you that we intend to do so and why.

15.7 If your security credentials are stolen, lost, used without authorisation or compromised, you should immediately contact using available contact information on our website and change your password without delay.

CORPORATE CLIENTS AND AUTHORIZED USERS

16.1 If you are a Corporate Customer, you can authorise others to access, use or operate your Altery Account or otherwise use our Services on behalf of a business (an “Authorised User”). You acknowledge that if you provide such access to an Authorised User, we’ll deal with such Authorised User as if they were you for the purposes of these Terms, including any conduct related to a balance held in the Altery Account or other instructions, such as withdrawing or sending money. All Authorised Users must be 18 or over, and you must assess that they are of sound mind and judgement.

16.2 You must notify us in writing immediately upon any change in the information provided regarding the Authorised User and its scope of authority to give instructions on your behalf.

16.3 You will be bound by anything done by any Authorised User, even if they do something that is outside the scope of the authority you gave them. You acknowledge that Heado will not perform any verification of the authority of your Authorised Users to act on behalf of your business. You also acknowledge that we may disclose certain information about your profile or Altery Account to any Authorised User and that we are not responsible for your Authorised User’s use of that information. Granting permission to any Authorised User does not relieve you of your responsibilities under these Terms, including notifying us if your Altery Account has been compromised or if a transaction is suspected to be incorrect or unauthorised.

16.4 You are responsible for the integrity of and all acts and omissions of all Authorised Users, and we shall not be responsible for any loss or harm which you or any other person may suffer or incur as a result of any act or omission of any Authorised User. We are not responsible to you or anyone else if any Authorised User provides us with instructions which are against your interests or outside of the scope of the Authorised User’s actual authority.

16.5 As an Authorised User (defined above), all activities under an Altery Corporate Account shall be deemed as activities carried out on behalf of the relevant entity. Unless you are an Authorised User, you agree to only use the Services to transact on your own Altery Corporate Account and not on behalf of any other person or entity.

You are responsible for ensuring that only Authorised Users access your Altery Account and/or instruct us to carry out Transactions on your behalf. If we receive instructions or a request using your or an Authorised User’s Account Access Details, we will treat the instructions as having been authorised by you, and we are under no obligation to verify the authenticity of an instruction if it comes from an Authorised User.

16.6 Disputes between you and an Authorised User relating to your Altery Corporate Account or our Services are a matter between you and the Authorised User. You recognise that Heado is not a party to any claim or dispute between you and your Authorised Users. Because you are bound by the actions of Authorised Users, it’s very important that you choose Authorised Users carefully. We suggest you regularly reassess who can be an Authorised User and regularly review the activity undertaken by Authorised Users.

16.7 You shall ensure that any and all Authorised Users are aware of these Terms and will procure that such Authorised Users comply with these Terms.

16.8 We may deny access to your account to any third party when we believe that there is a risk of fraud or other criminal activity. We may also deny such access in order to comply with anti-money laundering regulations. In this case, we will provide you with the reasons for refusing access unless this is restricted by law or for internal security reasons.

TRANSACTION DISPUTES

17.1 Please refer to the Altery Card Terms and Conditions if the dispute relates to an Altery Card transaction. All provisions in this paragraph below apply to Altery Account transactions.

17.2 If you believe that any Transaction was:

(a) not authorised by you; or

(b) incorrectly executed by us;
then you must notify us without undue delay as soon as you become aware of it, but not later than

(i) 1 month (if you are a Large Enterprise); or

(ii) 13 months (if you are a Consumer or Micro-Enterprise)

after the date of the unauthorised or incorrectly executed Transaction. For a period of 18 months following your notification, you have the right to request that we provide you with the means to confirm your notification.

17.3 You must pay for all losses resulting from an unauthorised Transaction where you have

(a) acted fraudulently; or

(b) with intent or gross negligence:

(i) failed to safeguard the Account Access Details;

(ii) failed to comply with these Terms regarding the use of the Services; and/or

(iii) did not notify us without delay in the way required in clauses 15.3 and 17.1, when you became aware the Account Access Details were lost, stolen or used without your authorisation.

17.4 If you are a Consumer or Micro-Enterprise, provided that:

(a) you have notified us as required by paragraphs 15.3 and 17.1;

(b) we cannot show that the Transaction was authorised by you, and

(c) paragraph 17.2 does not apply, then we will refund the amount of the unauthorised Transaction to your Altery Account.

Unless we have reasonable grounds to suspect fraudulent behaviour, we will make the refund as soon as practicable, and in any event no later than the end of the Business Day following the day on which we became aware of the unauthorised Transaction.

17.5 If you are a Consumer or Micro-Enterprise, you must pay up to a maximum amount of 50 EUR for any losses we suffer from an unauthorised Transaction due to the use of lost or stolen Account Access Details, unless (i) it was not possible for you to detect the use of the lost or stolen Account Access Details before the Transaction; or (ii) the losses we suffer were caused by us or our agents.

17.6 If you are a Consumer or Micro-Enterprise, unless you acted fraudulently, you are not liable for any losses resulting from an unauthorised Transaction:

(a) after you notify us as required in paragraphs 15.3 and 17.1;

(b) if you could not notify us as we failed to provide you with the means at all times to tell us about Account Access Details that have been lost, stolen, misappropriated, used without authorisation, or otherwise compromised;

(d) where you used the Altery Account to buy goods or services at a distance, unless the law says, you are liable for the loss.

17.7 If you are a Large Enterprise, you will have to prove to us that a Transaction was not authorised by you. If you do so and you have notified us in accordance with paragraphs 15.3 and 17.1 and paragraph 17.2 does not apply, we will be liable to refund the amount of the unauthorised Transaction to your Altery Account, but subject to our limit of liability set out in paragraph 18.2. We shall make the refund as soon as practicable and, in any event, no later than the end of the Business Day following the day on which we became aware of the unauthorised Transaction. You shall, on request, provide such independently verified or verifiable information as we may reasonably ask in order to determine whether you are a Large Enterprise.

17.8 Save as set out in these Terms, Transactions are non-refundable and are non-reversible. You may not charge back any Transaction for reasons for which we are not responsible, including, without limitation, disputes with third parties for non-delivery of goods and/or services. We are not liable for any claims resulting from a commercial transaction between you and a third party.

17.9 If we provide you with an Identifier and we and all the other service providers involved in making the Transaction carry out your instructions in accordance with the Identifier, then we are entitled to consider it was carried out correctly.

17.10 If you give us an incorrect Identifier or other incorrect details, then we are not responsible for failing to carry the Transaction out or for carrying it out in accordance with your instructions. If the Transaction has been misdirected because you gave us an incorrect Identifier, we will make reasonable efforts to recover the funds in the Transaction, but we provide no guarantee that the funds will be recovered. We may charge you a fee as set out in the Fees List for doing this. If we are unable to recover the funds, we will, upon your written request, provide you all available relevant information in order for you to claim repayment of the funds. If you are the recipient of a Transaction made with an incorrect Identifier, you will cooperate with us in order to return the funds where appropriate, and we will cooperate with the payer's PSP in its efforts to recover the funds, in particular by providing it with all relevant information for the collection of the funds.

17.11 Please note that even if you give us information additional to the Identifier or to the information we asked for to make the Transaction, we are only responsible for carrying out the Transaction in accordance with the Identifier.

17.12 Where you are the payer of a Transaction which has not been correctly executed by us, we shall, without undue delay, refund to you the amount of the non-executed or defective Transaction and, where applicable, restore your account to the state in which it would have been if the Transaction had not taken place. The credit value date for these purposes will be the date on which the amount was debited. Where the Transaction has been executed late, you may ask us to request the recipient’s PSP to credit value to the recipient’s account as if the Transaction had been executed correctly, using a credit value date no later than the date the Transaction would have been value dated if it had been executed on time.

17.13 If you are the recipient of a Transaction that has been executed late, and we receive a request from your payer's PSP, we will ensure that the credit value date used in your Altery Account is no later than the date the amount of the Transaction would have been value dated if the Transaction had been executed on time.

17.14 You have the right to request that we make efforts to trace any non-executed or defectively executed Transaction and notify you of the outcome.