Effective 12/17/24
This Business Debit Card Disclosure and Card Agreement, together with all other account agreements and disclosures governing your linked account(s) maintained with the Bank for business, personal, family or household use (“Account”) constitute the agreement (“Agreement”) under which First Mid (“Bank”, “Us”, “We”) will provide Debit Card Services to the customer named in the Signature Card (“You”, ”Your”). If any provisions of this Agreement conflicts with a provision of such other agreements, the provisions of this Agreement shall control with regard to the use of the Card or PIN. You agree to the terms and conditions provided herein. The initial use, signing, or other acceptance of the Card by you, or by any other person you authorize or permit to use the card constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions stated in the Agreement, you must immediately return all Cards to the Bank and cease using your card number for any use or transactions.
Debit Card Services
If you have requested or obtained a First Mid Visa® Debit Card (“Debit Card”) (also referred to hereafter as “Card”) from the Bank, this Agreement will apply to all EFT activity occurring as a result of the use of that card. You assume responsibility for all transactions arising from authorized use of the Card by any User, whether such use is with an ATM, Banking terminal, electronic funds transfer device, any debit program or any other means of access. If you have authorized another person to use the Card in any manner, that authorization shall be deemed to include the authorization to make withdrawals or transfers of funds to or from the Account, and such authorization shall be deemed to continue until you have taken all steps necessary to revoke it by preventing such use by that person, including, without limitation, notifying the User and contacting us to inform us that the User is no longer authorized. Use of the Card via PIN with an ATM allows the User access to all associated accounts, including savings accounts.
Your card is issued with an expiration date. To keep your Card in an “active” status, at least one transaction using your Card (for example, a balance inquiry) must be performed prior to the expiration date on the card. If a transaction using your card has not been recorded prior to the expiration date, the Card will not be reissued.
With a First Mid business debit card, all ATM, purchase, and point-of-sale (POS) transactions with the card, will be deducted from the Account(s) linked to the Card.
The First Mid business debit card is NOT a credit card, which means you may not defer payment of transactions.
Your Agreement to Pay
You agree to pay us on demand for all purchases made and, services rendered by or to any User of the Card. Cancellation of a card or termination of the Account shall not excuse your obligation to pay for all purchases or other transactions incurred against or in connection with the Account through the effective time of the cancellation or termination. This liability will be joint and several.
Card Activation
When you receive a new or a replacement card, follow the activation instructions accompanying it. You have the option of choosing your own PIN. Once your Card has been activated, you may begin to use your Card. Do not write the PIN on your Card or otherwise share or disclose your PIN with any person.
Card Valet
If your card is lost or stolen, you may turn your card OFF using the Card Valet mobile app. Turning your card OFF will prevent unauthorized card transactions on your account. The app also allows you to turn your card back ON when you want. With the app, you can receive real-time alerts when your card is used, set controls for merchant codes, locations, transaction types and thresholds to ensure employee spending adheres to your company policies.
Cancellation and Termination
Your card is our property. We may cancel your Card at any time without notice to you. You may cancel your Card at any time by writing to us at the address provided in the ‘Contact Us” section. If the Account is closed or the Card is cancelled, you will immediately destroy the Card and, upon request, tell us in writing that the Card has been destroyed. If requested, you must immediately return the Card to us. If your Card is cancelled, you must pay for any Card transactions made before the Card is cancelled. If you have enrolled your Card for recurring payments at any merchants, you need to contact those merchants and remove your enrolled Card number for future payments.
Digital Wallet
If you make Card transactions through a Mobile Device, these Terms and Conditions apply. Digital Wallet refers to an electronic device that allows an individual to make electronic payment transactions. This can include purchasing items with a computer or using a mobile phone to purchase something at a physical or online store. You may register your Card with compatible programs that allow Card transactions through Digital Wallet. Once registered, the Digital Wallet allows you to store virtual representations of credit and debit cards on your supported Mobile Device or computer to make payments at select merchants utilizing the merchant’s terminal, in-app or other digital commerce payments. The digital wallet may not be accepted at all places or merchants where your Card is currently accepted. We do not charge you additional fees for adding your Card to Digital wallet or using a Digital Wallet to pay for a transaction using your Card.
- Mobile carriers may charge you message and data rates or other fees.
- You should secure the Mobile Device the same as you would your cash, checks, credit cards, and other valuable information. We encourage you to password protect or lock your Mobile Device to help prevent an unauthorized person from using it.
- Please notify us promptly if your Mobile Device containing your Digital Card Number is lost or stolen. See “Contact Us” section.
We are not the provider of the Digital Wallet and we are not responsible for providing the Digital Service to you. Use of a Digital Wallet involves electronic transmission of personal information through third party connections. Because we do not operator or control these connections, we cannot guaranteed the privacy or security of these data transmissions. You should consider whether there is risk of loss or other problems that may result from wireless transmission or loss of the mobile device. Check with the Digital wallet provider and your wireless carrier for information about their privacy and security practices. *Please refer to our separate Digital Wallet Terms and Conditions for more information.
Authorizations for Card Transactions
You authorize the Bank to accept all Card and EFT transactions initiated through the use of the Card by you or anyone you authorize to use the Card. When we approve a transaction or purchase, we call that an “authorization.” We may limit the number of authorizations we allow during a period of time (e.g., if we notice out-of-pattern use of your Card, suspected fraudulent or unlawful activity, or internet gambling). For security reasons, we cannot explain the details of the authorization system. If we do not authorize the payment, we may notify the person who attempted the payment that has been refused. We will not be responsible for failing to give an authorization.
Available Balance
Your “Available Balance” is the most current record we have about funds that are available for withdrawal from the Account. You may use your Card as long as you stay within your daily ATM limit and daily purchase limit, and you have sufficient Available Balance in any of your Accounts used for withdrawal. However, your Available Balance does not include your outstanding checks and your scheduled bill payments, or other transactions that have not yet been paid from the Account. Your Available balance may include deposits still subject to verification or collection by us. If the ATM transaction or purchase would create an overdraft on the Account, we may take actions described in the section of this brochure titled “Creating an Overdraft Using Your Card.”
- You can monitor your Card transactions
- Keep track of your transactions with online or mobile banking.
- Sign up for email or text alerts
- Review your account statements regularly to verify transactions.
CREATING AN OVERDRAFT USING YOUR CARD
An “overdraft” is a negative balance in your Account. An overdraft occurs when you do not have enough available balance in your Account to cover the amount of a transaction and we pay the amount of the transaction instead of declining it or returning it unpaid. However, if you overdraw your Account, you must deposit the amount of any overdrafts. You also may have to pay a fee. For preauthorized recurring payments using a debit card, we have the right to 1) authorize and pay for overdrafts, or 2) decline overdrafts. You must repay immediately any overdrafts.
For additional information about overdrafts, including how you can prevent overdrafts arising from ATM and every day (one-time) debit card transactions, please see your Consumer Account Agreement or other applicable account agreement.
UNAUTHORIZED TRANSFERS
Business Liability
If you give your Card to another person, you are authorizing that person to use your Card and you assume all risks associated thereto. You are liable for and agree to reimburse Bank for all purchases, business liabilities, including attorney’s fees, court costs and other expenses that you or we may incur because of another person’s use of your Card. First Mid Bank & Trust shall not be liable for unauthorized card transactions except for unauthorized transactions that do not require the use of your PIN provided you meet the conditions stated below for the Visa Zero Liability and Provisional Credit Policy.
Visa Zero Liability Card Protection Policy
These terms apply only to Signature Based transactions conducted via the VISA network. VISA’s zero liability Policy protects you against unauthorized transactions that may be made with an access device if the transactions are processed as a signature based transaction (does not include pin-based transactions) through the VISA network. Visa’s Zero Liability Policy covers US issued Cards only and does not apply to commercial transactions not processed directly via the VISA Network.
Your Card comes with Zero Liability Card Protection for unauthorized transactions that you report promptly. With Zero Liability Card Protection, if your card or card number is ever lost or stolen and used without your permission, you must tell us immediately. If you do, you will not be responsible for unauthorized transactions made using your Card or Card Number.
- If you notify us about the unauthorized transaction within 60 days of when the first Account statement showing the unauthorized transaction was delivered, you will be protected for your losses on the Account.
- If you notify us about the unauthorized transaction after 60 days, we may not reimburse you for the unauthorized transactions. You may be required to provide documentation to support your claim, including an affidavit of unauthorized use and a police report. In addition, we will consider whether any negligence on the part of the cardholder has contributed to the transaction in question.
The Following are not considered to be unauthorized transactions under Zero Liability protection, which means you are liable for any transaction:
- By a cardholder or person authorized by a cardholder, or other person with an interest in or authority to transact business on the Account:
- By a person you have authorized to use your Card, even if that person has exceeded the authority you gave;
- A merchant has processed in error, or you are unhappy with goods or services you purchased. In these cases, first contact the merchant to resolve the situation.
- That resulted from inadequate internal controls in your organization.
If you suspect that your Card has been lost or stolen, or that an unauthorized transaction has been made with the Card or the Card number issued to you, notify us as soon as possible. The sooner you notify us, the sooner we can protect the linked Accounts. A delay in reporting the unauthorized transaction may affect your Zero Liability protection, as defined above.
Business Days
For purpose of this agreement, our business days are Monday through Friday. Saturdays, Sundays and federal holidays are not included.
ATM Deposit Cut-Off Times
All First Mid Bank & Trust ATMs have a 5:00 p.m. cutoff time. If you make a deposit at a First Mid Bank & Trust ATM before the cutoff time on a business day that we are open, we will consider that day to be the day of your deposit. However, if you make a deposit at an ATM after the posted cutoff time, or on a day we are not open, we will consider the next business day that we are open to be the day of your deposit. Please use our Locations Page on our website (www.firstmid.com) to identify where our ATMs are located.
Dollar Limitations
Your available account balance must be sufficient to cover all withdrawal(s) and other transactions. Different dollar limitations may apply to different Cards or Services; dollar limitations may vary across nonproprietary network ATMs, POS terminals, or merchant locations (if applicable). We provide you your daily ATM withdrawal and purchase limits when you receive your Card. You can confirm your Card’s daily limits by calling us at the number listed on the back of your card or the number listed in the “Contact Us” section.
Changes to your Card limits
We may, without telling you, increase your daily purchase or ATM withdrawal limit based on account history, activity, and other factors. We will notify you if we decrease the daily limits for your Card.
For purposes of the daily limits only, a “day” is defined as the 24-hour period from midnight to midnight. If a transaction is made in another time zone, it will be processed when we receive it.
Daily Limits and Available Balance
You may use your card subject to 1) your daily ATM withdrawal limit and daily purchase limit, and 2) your Available Balance in your Account. The following rules apply:
Limits on dollar amounts:
- Daily ATM withdrawal limit is the maximum amount of cash you can withdraw from any combination of accessible Accounts using your card.
- Daily purchase limit is the maximum U.S. dollar amount of purchases (including cash back, if any) that can be debited from your account.
In certain circumstances, we may allow debit card transactions that exceed your daily purchase limit (except for certain accounts such as savings accounts).
Limitations for Savings Accounts
Purchase transactions are not permitted from a savings account.
ATM Deposit Transactions Subject to Verification and Collection
All deposit transactions initiated through an ATM are subject to the bank’s verification and actual collection of any non-cash item. Deposits made at an ATM may not be available for withdrawal at an ATM or otherwise, until verification and collections, with the exception of cash deposits. The availability of your deposit may be delayed if you are a new customer to the Bank, and you have a new Account. An Account is considered new a new Account for 30 calendar days after the first deposit is made.
UNDERSTANDING AUTHORIZATION HOLDS FOR CARD TRANSACTIONS
“Authorization Hold” means a temporary hold placed against some or all of your funds in your Account and occurs when we authorize a Card transaction from a merchant. The funds on hold will be subtracted from your Available Balance.
We can place an Authorization Hold on your account for up to 3 business days from the time of the authorization. However, if the merchant does not submit the transaction for payment with in the time allowed, we will release the Authorization Hold. This means your Available Balance will increase until the transaction is submitted for payment by the merchant and posted to your Account. If this happens, we must honor the prior authorization, and we will pay the transaction from your Account. In some situations, the amount of the hold may differ from the actual transaction amount since the merchant may not know the total amount you will spend. For example, a restaurant submits the authorization request for your meal before you add a tip.
Note: You might end up overdrawing the Account even though the Available Balance appears to show there are sufficient funds to cover your transaction. For example, if a merchant does not submit a one-time debit card transaction for payment within 3 business days of authorization, we must release the Authorizations Hold on the transaction even though we will have to honor the transaction. The transaction will be paid from the funds in the Account when we receive it for payment.
You should record and tract all of your transactions closely to confirm that your Available Balance accurately reflects the use of funds from your Account.
Fees
The bank reserves the right to modify its fees in connection with the Services contemplated under this Agreement, upon notice when required by law. You agree to pay for all such fees or charges as they may change from time to time.
Service Fees
Generally, EFT transactions are subject to the same fees and charges as are applicable to other transactions on your account. In addition, the following fees may apply:
- Balance inquiry at an ATM other than an ATM maintained by First Mid
- Surcharges or convenience fees for each transaction at an ATM other than one maintained by First Mid.
- Per transaction fee for purchases at a merchant
ATM and Merchant Terminal Malfunctions
We are not responsible for damages resulting from an ATM or merchant terminal malfunction. You will promptly notify us if a First Mid ATM fails to dispense the correct amount of cash or provide a receipt, by calling or writing us at the telephone number or address provided on your Account statement.
USING VISA ACCOUNT UPDATER (VAU) SERVICE
If you give your debit card number to a merchant with authorization to bill it for recurring payments, or to keep it on file for future purchases or payments, and your debit card number or expiration date changes, you should notify the merchant with your new debit card information. We subscribe to the Visa Account Updater Service (VAU Service) and provide updated debit card information to the VAU service. If a merchant participates in the VAU service, that merchant will receive the updated debit card information. If your card is closed for any reason your card information will not be provided to the VAU service. Because not all merchants subscribe to the VAU service, we recommend you notify each merchant of your new debit card number and/or expiration date to ensure your payments continue uninterrupted.
DOCUMENTATION
Receipts at ATMs. You can get a receipt at the time you make a transfer to or from your account using an ATM, online or terminal unless you designate otherwise. The receipt you receive is evidence of the transaction as recorded by the ATM or terminal. All transactions are subject to posting, final payment or verification as applicable. You can use the receipt to reconcile your Account statement.
FIRST MID BANK & TRUST
CUSTOMER ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR
P.O. BOX 499, 1515 CHARLESTON AVENUE
MATTOON, ILLINOIS 61938-0499
www.firstmid.com
Business Days: Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays
Phone: 877-888-5629
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