Please read these terms carefully. They will be available in the ‘More’ section of your application for future reference.
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If you have any queries, please contact us on 0808 168 2960 (open 08:00 to 21:00 Monday to Friday and 08:00 to 20:00 at weekends) or visit www.ulsterbank.co.uk/mobile.
If you wish to cancel the Mobile Banking service at any time, just text ‘STOP’ to 87898 and delete the application from your device.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE FOR THE MOBILE
BANKING SERVICE
The Mobile Banking Service is provided by Ulster Bank Limited to you.
A For personal customers, it is important that you read these mobile banking terms and conditions (the “Terms”) along with our ‘Personal Banking – Terms and Conditions’ and the fees which apply to your account in ‘A Guide to Personal Accounts Fees and Interest’. Collectively these set out our general terms for using our banking services including our privacy policy which contains details of how we and others will use your information. They are available at www.ulsterbank.co.uk. If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us on 0808 168 2960. If there is any inconsistency between the Terms and our general terms, the Terms will prevail.
B For business customers, it is important that you read all of the following, these mobile banking terms and conditions (the “Terms”), our, ‘Business Banking – Terms and Conditions’, ‘Anytime Terms and Conditions for Business Customers’, the Anytime for Business Customers application form and the fees which apply to your account in ‘A Guide to Business Current Account Fees’ . If you are also a personal customer you should also read section A overleaf. Collectively these set out our general terms for using our banking services including our privacy policy which contains details of how we and others will use your information. They are available at www.ulsterbank.co.uk. If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us on 0808 168 2960. If there is any inconsistency between the Terms and our core terms, the Terms will prevail.
1. OUR DETAILS
We are Ulster Bank Limited (“us”, “we” or “Ulster Bank”) part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group of companies (the “RBS Group”). We are a public company incorporated in Northern Ireland (Company number R733) and have our registered office at 11-16 Donegall Square East, Belfast BT1 5UB.
2. THE SERVICE
2.1 Unless otherwise permitted by us, you may only access the Mobile Banking Service if you are aged 11 years or over and are resident in the United Kingdom. Further details on how to register and use the Mobile Phone Banking Service can be found at www.ulsterbank.co.uk/mobile.
2.2 The Mobile Banking Service offers you access to a range of content and transaction services. Details of our range of services can be found on our website at www.ulsterbank.co.uk/mobile. The services offered to you via the Mobile Phone Banking Service may vary depending on the type of device you are using and/or the type of account you hold with us.
3. AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE
3.1 While we will make reasonable efforts to provide the Mobile Banking Service, we will not be liable for any failure to provide the Mobile Banking Service, in part or full, for any cause that is beyond our reasonable control. This includes, in particular, any suspension of the Mobile Banking Service resulting from maintenance and upgrades to our systems or the systems of any party used to provide the Mobile Banking Service, outages on any phone network or in the case of mobile networks where you are not in an area of mobile coverage.
3.2 The Mobile Banking Service application (the “Application”) is provided “as is” with no representation, guarantee or warranty of any kind as to its functionality.
4. SECURITY PROCEDURE
4.1 You must keep your security details secret and take all reasonable precautions to prevent unauthorised or fraudulent use of them.
4.2 You must not disclose your security details to any other person or record your security details in any way that may result in them becoming known to another person.
4.3 Please note that after initial registration we will never contact you (or ask anyone to do so on our behalf), with a request to disclose your security details in full. If you receive any such request from anyone (even if they are using our name and logo and appear to be genuine) then it is likely to be fraudulent and you must not supply your security details to them in any circumstances. Additionally, you should report any such requests to us immediately.
4 4 If transactions using the Mobile Banking Service are permitted, now or in the future, and are carried out using your security details, but you subsequently show that a transaction was not authorised by you, you will not be liable for that transaction provided you have kept your security details secret, not acted fraudulently, acted with reasonable care and acted in accordance with these Terms.
4.5 If your device is lost or stolen or if you suspect that anyone knows your security details you must contact us immediately.
4.6 There your security details are lost or stolen, or you do not keep them safe as you are obliged to do under these Terms, you may be responsible for unauthorised transactions, up to a maximum of £50. You may be liable for the full amount where you have failed intentionally, or with gross negligence, to keep your security details secret. Unless you have acted fraudulently, you will not be liable for any unauthorised payment which is made after you told us that your security details are no longer safe.
4.7 You will be responsible for all instructions given by you or anyone acting with your authority between the time you pass the security procedure until you exit from the Mobile Banking Service. Please note that this includes any input errors or instructions sent by someone other than yourself so please do not leave your device unattended while you are still logged onto the Mobile Banking Service.
4.8 You are responsible for making sure information either shown or stored on your device is kept secure.
4.9 You must delete the Application from your device if you change your device or dispose of it.
4.10 You must advise us of any change to your mobile phone number or email address.
5. TRANSACTIONS
5.1 Unless Term 5.5 applies, when you instruct us to make a payment through the Mobile Banking Service, we will make the payment using the Faster Payments Service if possible. If we cannot use the Faster Payments Service, we will advise you of alternative methods of making the payment.
5.2 You acknowledge that you are responsible for all transactions carried out using the Mobile Banking Service and for the repayment of any debt that arises from use of the Mobile Banking Service.
5.3 Pay Your Contacts
5.3.1 You can only register to use Pay your contacts if your account is held in Northern Ireland.
5.3.2 If you are registered to use Pay your contacts you can ask us to make a payment by using the Application to give us the United Kingdom mobile phone number of the person you would like to make the payment to (the “payee”) together with the amount of the payment in Sterling. When you give us a mobile phone number you consent to us debiting your account for the amount specified.
5.3.3 When you ask us to make a payment using Pay your contacts, the mobile phone number that you give us identifies the payee. You are responsible for ensuring that you provide us with the correct mobile phone number and amount.
5.3.4 We will inform you within the Application if we are unable to send a payment.
5.3.5 Once you have asked us to make a payment using Pay your contacts you will not be able to cancel that payment. If you realise that you have given us an incorrect mobile phone number, you must inform us as soon as possible by contacting our telephone banking service. Where circumstances permit, we will try to stop the payment, but may not be able to do so. We will not be liable to you if we are unable to stop a payment in these circumstances.
5.3.6 For your and our security, we will place a daily limit on transactions using Pay your contacts and a limit on the amount of any one Pay your contacts transaction. Details of these limits can be found on our website at www.ulsterbank.co.uk/mobile.
5.4 Paying Registered Customers
5.4.1 You may ask us to make a payment to other customers who are registered to use the Application (“Registered Customers”). When you give us the payee’s mobile phone number and the amount of the payment this will be your payment instruction to us. The payment will normally be processed immediately but may sometimes take up to two hours. Payments using Pay your contacts will be identified in the payee’s account by your mobile phone number.
5.4.2 Payments to Registered Customers will be paid into the account linked to the debit card which the payee used to register for the Mobile Banking Service.
5.5 Paying Non-Registered Customers
5.5.1 You may ask us to make a payment to someone who is not a Registered Customer (a “Non-Registered payee”) provided they have a Visa debit card, Visa credit card, or a Visa pre-paid card which is eligible to receive third party payments.
5.5.2 When you instruct us to pay a Non-Registered payee by giving us their mobile phone number and the payment amount, we will work in partnership with Visa Europe Limited (“Visa”) to process your instruction.
5.5.3 Some Non-Registered payees will already have their mobile phone number and Visa card details registered with Visa. These Non-Registered payees will be treated by Visa as “Registered Visa recipients”.
5.5.4 When you instruct us to pay a Non-Registered payee who is a Registered Visa recipient, you initiate the payment transaction and Visa will process the payment on our behalf.
5.5.5 When you instruct us to pay a Non-Registered payee who is not a Registered Visa recipient.
a) Visa will send a text message to the Non-Registered payee on our behalf informing them that you wish to make a payment to them. For security reasons Visa will not state the amount of the payment in this text message. It is your responsibility to provide the Non-Registered payee with this information.
b) The Non-Registered payee will have up to seven days from the day Visa send the text message to collect the payment. After the collection period has expired the payment request will no longer be valid and you will have to make a fresh payment request if you still wish to make the payment.
c) To collect the payment, the Non-Registered payee must visit the Visa Europe collections website referred to in the text message and provide their eligible Visa card details as well as the amount of the payment. When the Non-Registered payee provides this information they initiate the payment transaction and Visa will process the payment on our behalf.
5.5.6 For all Non-Registered payees, if the payment is successful it will be credited to the Non-Registered payee’s account by the end of the business day following initiation of the payment transaction. If the payment is unsuccessful you will be sent a text message to let you know, and you will have to make a fresh payment request if you still wish to make the payment.
6. CHARGES
We reserve the right to charge you and you agree to pay the charges which apply when you use our services or any part of them. We do not currently charge you for the Mobile Banking Service. However, your mobile network operator may charge you when using the Mobile Banking Service and these charges may vary if you use your mobile phone to access the Mobile Banking Service when abroad.
7. OUR LIABILITY
We will not be liable to you for any breach of (or failure to perform) our obligations where that breach (or failure) is due to abnormal and unforeseeable circumstances beyond our control, the consequences of which would have been unavoidable despite all efforts to the contrary.
8. VARIATION /TER MINATION OF SERVICE
8.1 There is no minimum contract period and you are free to cancel the Mobile Banking Service at any time. Details on how to cancel the Mobile Banking Service can be found on our website at www.ulsterbank.co.uk/mobile.
8.2 If you have not used the Mobile Banking Service for 12 months your account will be deactivated automatically and you would have to re-register in order to use the Mobile Banking Service again.
8.3 We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the use of the Mobile Banking Service or any part of the Mobile Banking Service where:
(a) we have reasonable grounds to suspect that your Security Details have not been kept safe; or
(b) we have reasonable grounds to suspect unauthorised or fraudulent use of your Security Details; or
(c) as a result of a change in the way you operate your account or in your financial circumstances, we have reasonable grounds to believe that you may have difficulty in meeting your commitments; or
(d) we consider it appropriate for your protection. Unless we are unable to contact you or there is a legal reason or other circumstances beyond our control preventing us from doing so, we will notify you personally before taking this action to suspend, withdraw or restrict your use of the Mobile Banking Service and provide our reasons for doing so. If we are unable to contact you beforehand, where possible we will notify you and give our reasons afterwards.
8.4 If we have a valid reason for doing so, we may change the terms of our agreement with you by notifying you personally not less than 60 days before the change comes into effect.
8.5 We may introduce new charges on your account or change the amount of any charges which already apply to your account by notifying you personally not less than 60 days before the change comes into effect.
9. LICENCE FOR ULSTER BANK MOBILE BANKING APPLICATION (the “Licence”)
9.1 We hereby grant to you a non-assignable, non‑transferable, non-exclusive Licence to use the mobile phone banking application (the “Application”) (which shall include future updates made available to you from time to time provided you understand such updates may be subject to additional terms notified to you at the time such update is made available) subject to the following obligations and/or restrictions:
9.1.1 you may only use the Application on one single registered mobile phone belonging to you or under your control. You will need to register separately each additional or replacement mobile phone;
9.1.2 you may only use the Application for the purpose of receiving the Service and for no other purpose whatsoever;
9.1.3 the Application is licenced only to you and you shall not assign, sub-licence or grant any rights of use or any other rights in respect of the Application to any other person;
9.1.4 you shall not copy or reproduce in any way the whole or any part of the Application;
9.1.5 you shall not alter, modify or adapt the whole or any part of the Application;
9.1.6 you shall not remove or tamper with any copyright notice attached to or contained within the Application and you acknowledge and agree that as between us and you all ownership in the Application remains with us;
9.1.7 on any termination of the Service all rights granted to you in respect of the Application shall immediately cease.
9.2 TERMINATION OF LICENCE
9.2.1 The Licence shall commence upon your acceptance of the Licence or when you install the Application (whichever is first) and shall continue until terminated in accordance with the following clause or otherwise in accordance with the Licence.
9.2.2 The Licence will terminate automatically if you cancel the Service and/or uninstall the Application, or fail to comply with any term or condition of the Licence. Upon termination of the Licence for any reason whatsoever you must uninstall the Application and destroy all copies of the Application including all components of it in your possession.
9.3 ACCEPTANCE OF LICENCE
9.3.1 You will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Licence by installing the Application on any device.
10 LAW AND JURISDICTION
Our relations with you and the formation, existence, construction, performance, validity and all aspects whatsoever of these Terms and this Licence will be governed by Northern Irish law, if your address is in Northern Irelandor English law if you live elsewhere and the English courts shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of this Licence (unless your address is in Northern Ireland, in which case the courts of Northern Ireland shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction).