SECTION B: MASTERCARD CARD SERVICE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Card Service
1.1. These Card Service Terms and Conditions (Terms and Conditions), apply to such individuals approved by Bolt (Cardholder). Bolt is issuing the card services as the holder of an Australian Financial Services Licence (No. 536984) issued by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and a principal member of MasterCard or UnionPay (as applicable).
1.2. Activation of Your Card on the Bolt Application constitutes Your acceptance and agreement to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
2. Eligibility
2.1 You must be an approved holder of a Bolt Account in order to obtain the Card.
2.2. You must meet all eligibility criteria stipulated by Bolt and satisfy any due diligence checks conducted by Bolt to be eligible for the Card.
2.3. Notwithstanding clause 2.2, Bolt may, in its sole discretion and without having to assign any reason, refuse to make available the Card to any Cardholder or to recall, suspend or terminate a Card that made available to any Cardholder.
2.4. The Card shall be valid for the period stated on the Card (Validity Period). Renewal or replacement of the Card will be at Bolt's sole discretion.
2.5 You shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Bolt such information as Bolt may reasonably request for the purpose of the Card and the Terms and Conditions including but not limited to documents and/or information regarding Your financial affairs and/ or identity. You represent and warrant that all information provided by You or any third party on Your behalf is accurate in all material respects and You will not omit or withhold any information which would make such information inaccurate in any material respect.
3. Scope Of Use
3.1. No one else but the Cardholder whose name is printed on the Card may use the Card during the Validity Period in accordance with applicable laws, the Mastercard rules and these Terms and Conditions.
3.2. The Cardholder may use the Card to make payments for goods and services at merchants who accept Mastercard prepaid or debit cards (as applicable) for payments.
3.3. You are fully responsible for the use of the Card and only making payments to persons or entities in connection with commercial transactions in compliance with any Mastercard rules, applicable laws and regulations. At no time and under no circumstances shall you use the Card in contravention of any laws relating to Sanctions, money-laundering, fraud and the funding of terrorist organisations.
4. Cash Withdrawal
4.1. You may use the Card to make cash withdrawal via (a) any ATM that accepts MasterCard or UnionPay (as applicable) branded cards or (b) any service provider as notified by Bolt from time to time in jurisdictions where such cash withdrawal would not contravene local laws (Cash Withdrawal).
5. Bolt Account Balance
5.1. You are solely responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient Available Balance in Your Account
5.2. Bolt shall not be liable to make up for any shortfall in the Available Balance.
6. Fees
6.1. The use of the Card is subject to You paying the fees as set out on the Bolt Website from time to time.
6.2. All Fees and any other amounts due and owing under the Card shall be deducted from any Available Balance.
6.3. If the outstanding Fees and any other amounts due under these Terms and Conditions exceed the Available Balance, such shortfall represents a debt immediately due and payable under the Cards Program on demand (Demand Date).
6.4. A late interest of 0.5% each month shall be charged on any unpaid amounts owed under the Cards Program for the period beginning on the Demand Date and ending on the date such outstanding amounts are paid in full.
7. Security of the Card
7.1. You shall at all times be solely responsible for the security of the Card and for all transactions and charges incurred under the Card.
7.2. You must take all steps to safeguard the Card and any security related details (Access Details).
7.3. You must not disclose the Access Details to a third party. If you disclose any Access Details to a third party, You will be liable for all losses incurred in connection with the Card.
7.4. You undertake to provide, and update Bolt from time to time with complete and accurate contact details.
7.5. If You become aware that your Access Details have been stolen, misappropriated, used without authorisation or otherwise compromised, You must notify Bolt immediately. Any delay in or failure to notify Bolt promptly may result in You being liable for all transactions and losses incurred in connection with the affected Card.
7.6. You authorise Bolt to accept, rely and act upon any instruction received, or purported to be received from You. Where Bolt receives any instruction from a person using the Access Details, Bolt shall be entitled to treat such instruction as having been received from the Cardholder. Bolt is under no obligation to check the authenticity or accuracy of any instruction received from the Cardholder and shall not be liable for any losses incurred or suffered by You for complying with such instruction.
7.7. Bolt may in its sole discretion screen all instructions given by You in relation to the Card before carrying out such instructions.
7.8. Bolt, at its sole discretion, without providing any explanation or liability, refuse to act upon any instruction received from You.
7.9. You are fully responsible for regularly checking Your transaction history available via Bolt App and for reconciling the entries against Your own records. You should contact Bolt immediately and in no event no later seven (7) days after any unauthorised, incorrect, disputed entry (Entry) is reflected in Your transaction history. Following the expiry of this period, You are deemed to have agreed to such any such Entry.
8. The Card Transactions
8.1. The Card has a single transaction limit of AUD10,000 (Single Transaction Limit).
8.2. Bolt shall authorise a transaction only if there is sufficient Available Balance in Your Bolt account to cover such transaction and the Single Transaction Limit has not been exceeded. If a transaction has been processed despite there being insufficient Available Balance, You shall be liable to Bolt to fully make up for the shortfall plus any applicable fees, along with any costs incurred by Bolt and any other third party on recovering or attempting to recover such shortfall from You.
8.3. Notwithstanding clause 8.2, Bolt may, in Bolt's sole discretion and without assigning any reason and without any liability to You refuse to authorise any transaction.
8.4. You are deemed to have consented to all transactions made through the Card. You may not cancel any transaction after it has been authorised by Bolt.
8.5. Payments will be processed without conversion where transactions are processed in one of the Settlement Currencies where there is Available Balance of that Settlement Currency. When you have the full amount payable available in the applicable Settlement Currency those funds will be used and your Available Balance will be debited accordingly. If the full amount payable is not available in the applicable Settlement Currency, Bolt may convert such foreign currency into AUD (theSupported Currency) at the applicable exchange rates as determined by Bolt on the date such transaction is processed by Bolt, AUD funds will be used, and your AUD Available Balance will be updated accordingly.
If the AUD Available Balance is insufficient, Bolt will debit an equivalent amount of the Available Balance of other Settlement Currencies, starting with the highest Available Balance Settlement Currency and cascading down each Settlement Currency to satisfy the Payment.
8.6. If Bolt receives a Payment for processing in a currency other than in a Settlement Currency, Bolt may convert such foreign currency into AUD (the Supported Currency) at the applicable exchange rates as determined by Bolt on the date such transaction is processed by Bolt, AUD funds will be used, and your AUD Available Balance will be updated accordingly.
8.7. Where you use the Card to make a Cash Withdrawal, the amount deducted from the Available Balance may include such amount withdrawn and any other associated fees including but not limited to fees imposed by ATM operator or a service provider and if the Cash Withdrawal is not made in a Settlement Currency, the Available Balance will be debited with an equivalent amount of the Supported Currency calculated at an exchange rate determined by Bolt or service provider at the time of the Cash Withdrawal in together with any foreign currency exchange administrative costs on the day of the Cash Withdrawal was made. If there is insufficient Available Balance in the Supported Currency, Bolt will debit an equivalent amount of the Available Balance of another Settlement Currency, starting with the highest Available Balance Settlement Currency and cascading down each Settlement Currency to satisfy the withdrawal, calculated at an exchange rate determined by Bolt or service provider at the time of the Cash Withdrawal in together with any foreign currency exchange administrative costs on the day of the Cash Withdrawal was made.
8.7. Any Cash Withdrawal is also subject to any limit imposed by the local ATM operator or a service provider.
9. Unauthorised Use and Loss or Theft of the Card
9.1. You must suspend the Card via Bolt App and notify Bolt immediately if any of the following events has occurred (each anUnauthorised Transaction):
- the security of the Card has been compromised;
- the Card is lost or stolen;
- the Card is damaged or not working properly;
- the Card has been retained by an ATM; or
- any unauthorised transactions.
9.2. You must provide the following information when requested by Bolt:
- details of the Card;
- the relevant identification information;
- the type of authentication device, access code and device used to perform the Unauthorised Transaction;
- whether the Card, authentication device, or Access Details was lost, stolen or misused;
- the date and time of the loss or misuse and the date, time and method that the loss or misuse, was reported to the police;
- how you safeguard the Access Details and whether you had disclosed the Access Details to a third party; and
- any other information about the Unauthorised Transaction known to you.
9.3. You must make a police report upon request by Bolt and provide a copy of such report to Bolt.
9.4. If you are not able to notify Bolt of an Unauthorised Transaction as soon as you became aware of such incident, You must ensure that you provide Bolt with the reasons for the delayed report for example, it would be unreasonable for you to monitor a transaction notification during certain time or circumstances.
9.5. Bolt shall suspend the Card upon receipt of notification from You of a failure to do so in accordance with Clause 9.1 above until appropriate measures are taken to replace the Card and/or restore security to the Card. Bolt may charge a fee to replace the Card or may refuse to replace the Card without liability to You or having to assign any reason.
9.6. You shall be liable for all transactions made via the Card prior to the notification. Any delay in or failure to notify Bolt immediately may result in You being liable for all transactions and losses incurred in connection with the Card.
9.7. All communications and notifications to Bolt in connection an Unauthorised Transaction shall be in accordance with Clause 19.2.
10. Investigation Of Claims of Unauthorised Transactions
10.1. Where Bolt receives any report of an Unauthorised Transaction from the Cardholder (Relevant Claim), Bolt shall commence investigation and shall provide You with an electronic written report on the outcome and Bolt's assessment of the Unauthorised Transaction (Investigation Outcome) within a reasonable period of time provided that sufficient information of the Relevant Claim (including any police report) has been received by Bolt from the Cardholder.
10.2. Where the Investigation outcome is decided in Your favour, Bolt shall credit the Card with the amount charged on the Card due to the Unauthorised Transaction (Unauthorised Loss). You acknowledge and agree that the Unauthorised Loss credited to the Card may be different to the amount originally processed on the Card due to exchange rates fluctuations or the Unauthorised Loss received may only be a partial refund of the original amount.
11. Liability for Unauthorised Transactions
11.1. You are solely liable for all losses arising from any Unauthorised Transaction that occurs under the Card unless Clause 11.2 or any of circumstances described in clause 12.2 applies.
11.2. You shall not be liable for losses arising from any Unauthorised Transaction if such losses are directly due to any act or omission of Bolt or any of Bolt employees, agents, outsourcing service provider (Representatives) to provide the services in connection with the Card.
12. Refunds and Chargebacks
12.1. If You wish to receive a refund after You have conducted a transaction with a merchant via the Card (Refunds), you should approach the merchant directly. If the merchant in its discretion decides to process the your request for Refunds, Bolt shall credit the Card with the Refunds after Bolt has received the Refunds amount from the relevant merchant.
12.2. If You wish to receive a refund from a merchant in respect of a disputed transaction (Chargebacks), Bolt may, in its sole discretion, file a formal dispute with such merchant on Your behalf provided You comply with Bolt's request for information and assistance (including providing Bolt with all relevant documents and in such format as requested by Bolt). If the dispute is resolved in Your favour by Mastercard, Bolt shall credit the Card with the Chargebacks amount upon Bolt's receipt of such amount from Mastercard. You acknowledge and agree that the decision of Mastercard regarding the validity and value of any Chargebacks is valid and binding. Bolt shall not be obliged to investigate or defend the validity and/or value of any Chargeback.
12.3. You acknowledge and agree that:
- any claim with respect to a Chargeback shall be extinguished unless it is raised to Bolt within 90 days from the date of Transaction; and
- any Refund or Chargebacks may be different to the amount originally processed on the Card due to exchange rates fluctuations or the amount received with respect to any Refunds or Chargebacks may only be a partial refund of the original amount.
13. Suspension and Termination of the Card
13.1. You may request Bolt to cancel, suspend or terminate the Card by notifying Bolt via the Bolt App.
13.2. Bolt may suspend or terminate any Cardholder's ability to use the Card at any time without assigning any reason upon notice to the affected Cardholder.
13.3. Upon suspension or termination of a Card, the affected Cardholder's access to the Card shall be disabled and they shall promptly return the Card to Bolt.
13.4. The Card is valid until the expiry date shown on it unless it is cancelled before then.
14. Suspension And Termination of the Cards Program
14.1. You may terminate Your subscription to the Card Program upon expiry of the Minimum Term by giving 60 days prior written notice to Bolt. “Minimum Term” means a period of 2 years from the date of You activating an account on the Bolt App.
14.2. You may at any time immediately terminate Your subscription to the Card service, in whole or in part, by written notice to Bolt if:
- Bolt commits a material breach of these Terms and Conditions, which is not capable of remedy, or if capable of remedy, is not remedied to Your reasonable satisfaction within thirty (30) days of service of a notice requiring such remedy;
- Bolt becomes insolvent; or
- there is a withdrawal or termination of any licence, permission or authorisation required by Bolt to act as a principal and to operate all its business in connection with the Card service.
14.3. Bolt may at any time immediately suspend or terminate the Card service in whole or in part, by written notice to You if:
- You commit a material breach of these Terms and Conditions which is not capable of remedy, or if capable of remedy, is not remedied to Bolt's reasonable satisfaction within thirty (30) days of service of a notice requiring such remedy;
- You become Insolvent;
- Bolt is (i) required to do so pursuant to an order from regulatory authorities, or applicable laws or (ii) reasonably believe that the Card service is used for any purpose contrary to applicable laws or any unauthorised or fraudulent use; or (iii) the security of any of the Card Program has been compromised;
- the results of any “know your customer” or other similar checks or screenings under applicable laws or regulations conducted on You are unsatisfactory or if Bolt determines in its reasonable discretion, continuing the Card service could cause reputational, regulatory, financial or operational harm to Bolt;
- there is a withdrawal or termination of any licence, permission or authorisation required to operate Your business.
14.4. Upon termination of the Card service and subject to clause 14.5, Bolt shall initiate a refund of any unused Available Balance (less applicable taxes, charges and fees payable by you under the Cards Program) (Remaining Balance) to a bank account as instructed by You (Customer Bank Account) within sixty (60) Business Days of Bolt's receipt of Your written request. Any initiation of refund of such Remaining Balance to the Customer Bank Account shall constitute a good discharge of Bolt's obligation under this clause.
14.5. Bolt's obligation to refund the Remaining Balance is subject to satisfactory due diligence checks. In the event Bolt is not able to refund the Remaining Balance to the Customer, Bolt shall to the extent permissible by applicable laws and practicable, notify the Customer of the reasons.
14.6. The rights conferred on Bolt under these Terms and Conditions shall survive termination.
15. Personal Data and Consent to Disclosure
15.1. You represent and warrant that You have the legal right to disclose or provide any information disclosed or provided by You to Bolt or otherwise collected during the duration of your use of the Card (Personal Information) and any data derived from Personal Information may be disclosed to: (i) Bolt Representatives; (ii) companies within the Bolt group of companies, and Representatives; (iii) third parties who process transactions submitted by merchants on the applicable Card network; (iv) processors and suppliers Bolt or the applicable Card network may engage; (v) the providers of services and benefits associated with the Card; (vi) consumer credit bureaus, collection agencies and lawyers; (vii) parties who accept the Card in payment for goods and/or services purchased by You; (viii) parties who distribute the Card; (ix) the Card network, the co-branded partner for the Card; (x) banks, financial institutions, government agencies, statutory boards or authorities in Australia, Singapore or elsewhere; (xi) anyone to whom Bolt may transfer contractual rights; and (xii) any other party approved by You or to whom Bolt consider it in necessary to make such disclosure for the purpose of performing our obligations or exploiting our rights under the Terms and Conditions.
16. Intellectual Property
16.1. You agree that the Bolt web-pages (including service marks, logos and trademarks), applications, process and systems, and deliverables produced by Bolt for purposes in connection with these Terms and Conditions (including without limitation, reports, compilations and databases in any and all media) and the Card (collectively, Bolt IP) are and shall remain the exclusive property of Bolt and are protected by copyright law or other intellectual property laws.
16.2. You agree that no copyright or other intellectual property rights, title or interest, whether express or implied, in any of Bolt IP shall be acquired by You, except to the extent expressly contemplated in these Terms and Conditions.
16.3. You shall not distribute, disclose, sell Bolt IP or permit use of Bolt IP by, any third party whether in whole or in part without the express written consent of Bolt. You shall not, directly or indirectly, copy, modify, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive or discern the source code or internal workings of Bolt IP.
16.4. You may not: (i) reproduce any part(s) of Bolt IP in any form; (ii) create any derivative work based thereon; (iii) incorporate the site into other websites, electronic retrieval systems, publications or otherwise.
17. Indemnity
17.1. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Bolt and its respective Representatives from and against any and all losses whatsoever and howsoever arising which Bolt may sustain, incur, suffer or pay in connection with these Terms and Conditions, any Cardholder's use of the Card and any other services provided in related thereto except as contributed to by our gross negligence, criminal conduct, fraud or wilful misconduct.
18. Exclusion and Limitation of Liability
18.1. Bolt make no representations or warranties, express or implied, as to:
- the satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, no infringement and performance or otherwise of the Card and any other services provided in related thereto; and
- any products and services provided by a Service Provider or any other third party and shall not be liable for (i) the delivery, quality, safety, legality or any other aspect of goods or services that You purchase from third party merchants using the Card; if certain merchants refuse to accept payments made via the Card.
18.2. To the extent permitted under Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (ACL) and any other applicable laws, Bolt shall not be liable to You for any damages or losses of any kind whatsoever (however arising, regardless of the nature of the claim or the form of cause of action) in connection with these Terms and Conditions, the Card and any other services provided in related thereto except as contributed to by our gross negligence, criminal conduct, fraud or wilful misconduct. You acknowledge and agree that the exclusion and limitation of liability in this section are reasonable having regard to all relevant factors, including the nature of the services provided and the allocation of risk and liability between the parties.
19. Notices
19.1. Notices may be provided to You in the English language by Bolt via (i) electronic mail, (ii) short message service (SMS), (iii) personal delivery or ordinary post to Your address last known to Bolt or the Customer, (iv) through Bolt's website, the statement of account or any electronic medium determined by Bolt; or (v) Bolt App (Communication Mode) and You consent and agree to receive notices via any of such Communication Mode. All notices in electronic format shall be considered to be “in writing,” and shall be deemed to have been received by You no later than one (1) Business Day after posting or dissemination, whether or not You have actually received or retrieved such communication. Bolt reserve the right to provide notices in paper format. Your consent to receive notices electronically is valid until you revoke Your consent by notifying Bolt. If You revoke your consent to receive notices electronically, Bolt may terminate your right to use the Card, and You accept sole liability for any consequence resulting from such revocation of consent.
19.2. You may contact Bolt at any time via the following contact details. Any notice given to Bolt shall be in the English language:
1st Point of Contact
20. Variations To Card Service Terms and Conditions
20.1. Bolt may vary the Terms and Conditions from time to time. Any amendments or variations shall come into effect upon Bolt publishing a revised version on the Bolt App or Bolt publishing a revised version on Bolt website. Your continued use of the Card shall constitute acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions.
21. Assignment
21.1. Your use of the Card is personal to You and You may not assign any rights under these Terms and Conditions or the Card to any third party.
21.2. Bolt may assign and transfer any of its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
22. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
22.1. The Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the state of New South Wales, Australia and You hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of the state of New South Wales, Australia for all disputes arising from, as a result of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions (Proceedings) and waive any objections to Proceedings in any court on the grounds that the Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum. Such submission shall however not affect the right of Bolt to take Proceedings in any other jurisdiction and Bolt shall be at liberty to initiate and take actions or Proceedings or otherwise against You in Australia and/or elsewhere as Bolt may deem fit, whether concurrently or not.
23. Force Majeure
23.1. Non-performance of Bolt shall be excused to the extent that performance is rendered impossible by strike, fire, flood, other natural disasters, governmental acts, acts of terror or orders or restrictions, failure of suppliers, market disturbance, or act of God, or any other reason where failure to perform is beyond the control and not caused by the negligence of the non-performing Party (Force Majeure Event).
24. Miscellaneous
24.1. Except by a person who is Bolt's assignee pursuant to clause 21.2 above, a person who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions shall not have any rights to enforce any provision of these Terms and Conditions.
24.2. In the event any provision or part of the Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid or unenforceable, only that particular provision or part so found, and not the entire Terms and Conditions, will be inoperative.
24.3. Any delay in enforcing Bolt's rights under these Terms and Conditions or any waiver as to a particular default or other matter shall not constitute a waiver of Bolt's rights to the future enforcement of its rights under the Terms and Conditions, except with respect to an express written and signed waiver relating to a particular matter for a particular period of time.
24.4. Bolt is an independent contractor for all purposes and is in no way your agent or trustee nor the agent or trustee of any person from which payments are received through the Card.
24. Definitions
In this Section C:
Available Balance
means the total balance of funds received by Bolt in a currency supported by Bolt and held in a Payment Wallet in respect of the Cards which are no longer subject to a right of recall initiated by the licensed financial institution from which the funds are sent.
Card
means a valid financial transaction card issued by a member or affiliate of MasterCard, or UnionPay on which their respective logos appear.
Card Program
means the MasterCard or UnionPay (as applicable) card program through which Cardholders are issued Cards
Cardholder
means you
Sanctions
means any economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced from time to time by: (i) the Australian Investment Securities Commission; (ii) the European Union; (iii) the United Nations; or (v) any other relevant sanctions authorities.
Settlement Currency
means each currency approved by Bolt from time to time that can be used in a Payment Transaction.
Supported Currency
means AUD or another currency approved by Bolt from time to time that can be used as the home currency for Card transactions.
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