
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF YOUR ACCOUNT
Procedures for Opening A New Account | Agreement | Liability | Deposits
Withdrawals | Ownership of Account and Beneficiary Designation
Stop Payments | Telephone Transfers | Amendments and Termination
Statements | Account Transfer | Deposit Re-Classification
Direct Deposits | Temporary Account Agreement | Setoff
Agency (Power of Attorney) Designation | Restrictive Legends
Payment Order of Items | ACH and Wire Transfers | Approved Forms
Bounce Protection™ Customer Overdraft Policy | Check 21
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Electronic Fund Transfers Initiated By Third Parties
VoiceLine 24 Telephone Transfers | ATM transfers
Types of First Money VISA Check Card Point-of-Sale Transactions
Point-of-Sale Transactions | Advisory Against Illegal Use
Currency Conversion | Verified by VISA | IntelliPIN
Online Banking Computer Transfers | Limitations on frequency of transfers
Fees | Documentation | Preauthorized Payments
Financial Institution's Liability | Confidentiality
Unauthorized Transfers | Error Resolution Notice
Notice of ATM/Night Deposit Facility User Precautions
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Advantage Checking Account | Totally Free Checking Account
VIP Free Interest Checking Account | 50+ Free Interest Checking Account
Premium Checking Account | Platinum Money Market Account
Statement Savings Account | Chester's Investor Account
Christmas Club Account | Common Features
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT - To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.
What this means for you: When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your driver's license or other identifying documents.
AGREEMENT - This document, along with any other documents we give you pertaining to your account(s), is a contract that establishes rules which control your account(s) with us. Please read this carefully. If you sign the signature card or open or continue to have your account with us, you agree to these rules. You will receive a separate schedule of rates, qualifying balances, and fees if they are not included in this document. If you have any questions, please call us.
This agreement is subject to applicable federal laws and the laws of the state of Arkansas (except to the extent that this agreement can and does vary such rules or laws). The body of state and federal law that governs our relationship with you, however, is too large and complex to be reproduced here. The purpose of this document is to:
- summarize some laws that apply to common transactions;
- establish rules to cover transactions or events which the law does not regulate;
- establish rules for certain transactions or events which the law regulates but permits variation by agreement; and
- give you disclosures of some of our policies to which you may be entitled or in which you may be interested.
If any provision of this document is found to be unenforceable according to its terms, all remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. We may permit some variations from our standard agreement, but we must agree to any variation in writing either on the signature card for your account or in some other document.
As used in this document the words "we," "our," and "us" mean the financial institution and the words "you" and "your" mean the account holder(s) and anyone else with the authority to deposit, withdraw, or exercise control over the funds in the account. The headings in this document are for convenience or reference only and will not govern the interpretation of the provisions. Unless it would be inconsistent to do so, words and phrases used in this document should be construed so the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
LIABILITY - You agree, for yourself (and the person or entity you represent if you sign as a representative of another) to the terms of this account and the schedule of charges. You authorize us to deduct these charges directly from the account balance as accrued. You will pay any additional reasonable charges for services you request which are not covered by this agreement.
Each of you also agrees to be jointly
and severally (individually) liable for any account shortage resulting from charges
or overdrafts, whether caused by you or another with access to this account. This
liability is due immediately, and can be deducted directly from the account balance
whenever sufficient funds are available. You have no right to defer payment of this
liability, and you are liable regardless of whether you signed the item or benefited
from the charge or overdraft. This includes liability for our costs to collect the
deficit including, to the extent permitted by law, our reasonable attorneys' fees.
DEPOSITS - We will give only provisional credit until collection is final for any items, other than cash, we accept for deposit (including items drawn "on us"). Actual credit for deposits of, or payable in, foreign currency will be at the exchange rate in effect on final collection in U.S. dollars. We are not responsible for transactions by mail or outside depository until we actually record them. We will treat and record all transactions received after our "daily cutoff time" on a business day we are open, or received on a day we are not open for business, as if initiated on the next following business day that we are open.
WITHDRAWALS - Unless clearly indicated otherwise on the account records, any of you, acting alone, who signs in the space designated for signatures on the signature card may withdraw or transfer all or any part of the account balance at any time. Each of you (until we receive written notice to the contrary) authorizes each other person signing the signature card to indorse any item payable to you or your order for deposit to this account or any other transaction with us. We may charge your account for a check even though payment was made before the date of the check, unless we have received written notice of the postdating in time to have a reasonable opportunity to act. We may refuse any withdrawal or transfer request which you attempt on forms not approved by us, by any method we do not specifically permit, which is greater in number than the frequency permitted, or which is for an amount greater or less than any withdrawal limitations. Even if we honor a nonconforming request, we may treat continued abuse of the stated limitations (if any) as your act of closing the account. We will use the date the transaction is completed by us (as opposed to the date you initiate it) to apply the frequency limitations. The fact that we may honor withdrawal requests that overdraw the available account balance does not obligate us to do so later. See the funds availability policy disclosure for information about when you can withdraw funds you deposit. For those accounts for which our funds availability policy disclosure does not apply, you can ask us when you make a deposit when those funds will be available for withdrawal.
We may require not less than 7 days' notice in writing before each withdrawal from an interest-bearing account other than a time deposit, or from any other savings account as defined by Regulation D. Withdrawals from a time account prior to maturity or prior to any notice period may be restricted and may be subject to penalty. See your notice of penalty for early withdrawal.
OWNERSHIP OF ACCOUNT AND BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION - These rules apply to this account depending on the form of ownership and beneficiary designation, if any, specified on the account records. We make no representations as to the appropriateness or effect of the ownership and beneficiary designations, except as they determine to whom we pay the account funds.
Individual Account - is an account in the name of one person.
Joint Account - With Survivorship (And Not As Tenants In Common) - is an account in the name of two or more persons. Each of you intend that when you die the balance in the account (subject to any previous pledge to which we have agreed) will belong to the survivor(s). If two or more of you survive, you will own the balance in the account as joint tenants with survivorship and not as tenants in common.
Joint Account - No Survivorship (As Tenants In Common) - is owned by two or more persons, but none of you intend (merely by opening this account) to create any right of survivorship in any other person. We encourage you to agree and tell us in writing of the percentage of the deposit contributed by each of you. This information will not, however, affect the "number of signatures" necessary for withdrawal.
Pay-On-Death Account - If two or more of you create such an account, you own the account jointly with survivorship. Beneficiaries cannot withdraw unless: (1) all persons creating the account die, and (2) the beneficiary is then living. If two or more beneficiaries are named and survive the death of all persons creating the account, such beneficiaries will own this account in equal shares, with right of survivorship. The person(s) creating this account type reserves the right to: (1) change beneficiaries, (2) change account types, and (3) withdraw all or part of the account funds at any time.
STOP PAYMENTS - You must make any stop-payment order in the manner required by law and we must receive it in time to give us a reasonable opportunity to act on it before our stop-payment cutoff time. To be effective, your stop-payment order must precisely identify the number, date and amount of the item, and the payee.
You may stop payment on any item drawn on your account whether you sign the item or not, if you have an equal or greater right to withdraw from this account than the person who signed the item. A release of the stop-payment request may be made only by the person who initiated the stop-payment order.
Our stop-payment cutoff time is one hour after the opening of the next banking day after the banking day on which we receive the item. Additional limitations on our obligation to stop payment are provided by law (e.g., we paid the item in cash or we certified the item).
TELEPHONE TRANSFERS - A telephone transfer of funds from this account to another account with us, if otherwise arranged for or permitted, may be made by the same persons and under the same conditions generally applicable to withdrawals made in writing. Unless a different limitation is disclosed in writing, we restrict the number of transfers from a savings account to another account or to third parties, to a maximum of six per month (less the number of "preauthorized transfers" during the month). Other account transfer restrictions may be described elsewhere.
AMENDMENTS AND TERMINATION - We may change any term of this agreement. Rules governing changes in interest rates are provided separately. For other changes, we will give you reasonable notice in writing or by any other method permitted by law. We may also close this account at any time upon reasonable notice to you and tender of the account balance personally or by mail. Notice from us to any one of you is notice to all of you. Zero balance accounts will be closed if zero for a period greater than 60 days.
STATEMENTS - You must examine your statement of account with "reasonable promptness." If you discover (or reasonably should have discovered) any unauthorized signatures or alterations, you must promptly notify us of the relevant facts. As between you and us, if you fail to do either of these duties, you will have to either share the loss with us, or bear the loss entirely yourself (depending on whether we used ordinary care and, if not, whether we substantially contributed to the loss). The loss could be not only with respect to items on the statement but other items with unauthorized signatures or alterations by the same wrongdoer.
You agree that the time you have to examine your statement and report to us will depend on the circumstances, but will not, in any circumstance, exceed a total of 30 days from when the statement is first sent or made available to you.
You further agree that if you fail
to report any unauthorized signatures, alterations, forgeries, or any other errors
in your account within 60 days of when we first send or make the statement available,
you cannot assert a claim against us on any items in that statement, and as between
you and us the loss will be entirely yours. This 60-day limitation is without regard
to whether we used ordinary care. The limitation in this paragraph is in addition
to that contained in the first paragraph of this section.
ACCOUNT TRANSFER - This account may not be transferred or assigned without our prior written consent.
DEPOSIT RE-CLASSIFICATION - Interest or non-interest bearing checking accounts consist of a checking sub-account and a savings sub-account. The Bank may periodically transfer funds between these two sub-accounts. If your account is a plan on which interest is paid, your interest calculation will remain the same. Otherwise, the savings sub-account will be non-interest bearing. The savings sub-account will be governed by the rules governing our other savings accounts. This process will not affect your available balance, the interest you may earn, FDIC insurance protection, or your monthly statement.
DIRECT DEPOSITS - If, in connection with a direct deposit plan, we deposit any amount in an account which should have been returned to the Federal Government for any reason, you authorize us to deduct the amount of our liability to the Federal Government from the account or from any other account you have with us, without prior notice and at any time, except as prohibited by law. We may also use any other legal remedy to recover the amount of our liability.
TEMPORARY ACCOUNT AGREEMENT - If this option is selected, this is a temporary account agreement. Each person who signs in the space designated for signatures on the signature card (except as indicated to the contrary) may transact business on this account. However, we may at some time in the future restrict or prohibit further use of this account if you fail to comply with the requirements we have imposed within a reasonable time.
SETOFF - We may (without prior notice and when permitted by law) set off the funds in this account against any due and payable debt you owe us now or in the future, by any of you having the right of withdrawal, to the extent of such persons' or legal entity's right to withdraw. If the debt arises from a note, "any due and payable debt" includes the total amount of which we are entitled to demand payment under the terms of the note at the time we set off, including any balance the due date for which we properly accelerate under the note.
This right of setoff does not apply
to this account if: (a) it is an IRA or other tax-deferred retirement account, or
(b) the debt is created by a consumer credit transaction under a credit card plan
(but this does not affect our rights under any consensual security interest), or
(c) the debtor's right of withdrawal only arises in a representative capacity. We
will not be liable for the dishonor of any check when the dishonor occurs because
we set off a debt against this account. You agree to hold us harmless from any claim
arising as a result of our exercise of our right of setoff.
AGENCY (POWER OF ATTORNEY) DESIGNATION - Agents may make account transactions on behalf of the parties, but have no ownership or rights at death unless named as Pay-on-Death beneficiaries.
RESTRICTIVE LEGENDS - We are not required to honor any restrictive legend on checks you write unless we have agreed in writing to the restriction. Examples of restrictive legends are "must be presented within 90 days" or "not valid for more than $1,000.00."
PAYMENT ORDER OF ITEMS - The law permits us to pay items (such as checks or drafts) drawn on your account in any order. To assist you in handling your account with us, we are providing you with the following information regarding how we process the items that you write. When processing items drawn on your account, our policy is to pay them in the order that they are received. The order in which items are paid is important if there is not enough money in your account to pay all of the items that are presented. There is no policy that is favorable in every instance. If the smallest items are paid first, you may have fewer NSF or overdraft fees, but the largest, and perhaps more important items (such as rent or mortgage payments) might not be paid. If an item is presented without sufficient funds in your account to pay it, we may, at our discretion, pay the item (creating an overdraft) or return the item (NSF). The amounts of the overdraft and NSF fees are disclosed elsewhere. By paying items in the order that we receive them, we think our policy attains a reasonable balance between minimizing additional cost to you and paying your more important items. We encourage you to make careful records and practice good account management. This will help you to avoid writing checks or drafts without sufficient funds and incurring the resulting fees.
ACH AND WIRE TRANSFERS - This agreement is subject to Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code - Fund Transfers as adopted in the state in which you have your account with us. If you originate a fund transfer for which Fedwire is used, and you identify by name and number a beneficiary financial institution, an intermediary financial institution or a beneficiary, we and every receiving or beneficiary financial institution may rely on the identifying number to make payment. We may rely on the number even if it identifies a financial institution, person or account other than the one named. You agree to be bound by automated clearing house association rules. These rules provide, among other things, that payments made to you, or originated by you, are provisional until final settlement is made through a Federal Reserve Bank or payment is otherwise made as provided in Article 4A-403(a) of the Uniform Commercial Code. If we do not receive such payment, we are entitled to a refund from you in the amount credited to your account and the party originating such payment will not be considered to have paid the amount so credited. If we receive a credit to an account you have with us by wire or ACH, we are not required to give you any notice of the payment order or credit.
However, we will continue to notify you of the receipt of payments in the periodic statements we provide to you.
APPROVED FORMS - If you use a form that is not approved by First Federal Bank, you may be subject to a charge upon 30 day notification.BOUNCE PROTECTION™ CUSTOMER OVERDRAFT POLICY - An insufficient balance could result in several ways, such as (1) the payment of checks, electronic funds transfers or other withdrawal requests; (2) payments authorized by you; (3) the return of unpaid items deposited by you; (4) the imposition of bank service charges; or (5) the deposit of items which, according to the bank's Funds Availability Policy, are treated as not yet available or finally paid. We are not obligated to pay any item presented for payment if your account does not contain sufficient funds. However, if you maintain your account in good standing (defined as making regular deposits and bringing your account to a positive balance at least once every 30 days) and there are no legal orders outstanding, we may approve your reasonable overdrafts as a non-contractual courtesy. You may opt out of the privilege at any time, but you are responsible for any overdrawn balances at the time of opting out. Normally, we will not approve an overdraft for you in excess of the predetermined amount assigned to your account type. So as not to exceed your limit, you should note that the amount of the overdraft plus the bank's standard NSF fee (per item) will be deducted from the overdraft limit. We may refuse to pay an overdraft for you at the time, even though we may have previously paid overdrafts for you. You will be notified by mail of any non-sufficient funds items paid or returned that you may have; however, we have no obligation to notify you before we pay or return any item. The amount of the overdraft plus our non-sufficient funds handling fee charge(s) that you owe us shall be due and payable upon demand. If there is an overdraft paid by us on an account with more than one (1) owner on the signature card, each owner and agent, if applicable, drawing/presenting the item creating the overdraft, shall be jointly and severally liable for such overdraft plus our non-sufficient funds handling fee charge(s).
Bounce Protection™ is available to all checking accounts in good standing with our institution. First Federal Bank reserves the right to limit participation and to discontinue this service without prior notice.
CHECK 21 - The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act provides for a new negotiable instrument referred to as a substitute check. This substitute check is the legal equivalent of an original check for all persons and for all purposes. The Act further provides for expedited recredit if a substitute check was incorrectly charged to your account. First Federal uses images of checks in its posting and processing activities and only in special circumstances will the substitute check apply.Indicated below are types of Electronic Fund Transfers First Federal Bank is capable of handling, some of which may not apply to your account. Please read this disclosure carefully because it tells you your rights and obligations for the transactions listed. You should keep this notice for future reference.
Electronic Fund Transfers Initiated By Third Parties. You may authorize a third party to initiate electronic fund transfers between your account and the third party's account. These transfers to make or receive payment may be one-time occurrences or may recur as directed by you. These transfers may use the Automated Clearing House (ACH) or other payments network. Your authorization to the third party to make these transfers can occur in a number of ways. For example, your authorization to convert a check to an electronic fund transfer or to electronically pay a returned check charge can occur when a merchant provides you with notice and you go forward with the transaction (typically, at the point of purchase, a merchant will post a sign and print the notice on a receipt). In all cases, these third party transfers will require you to provide the third party with your account number and bank information. This information can be found on your check. Thus, you should only provide your bank and account information (whether over the phone, the Internet, or via some other method) to trusted third parties whom you have authorized to initiate these electronic fund transfers. Examples of these transfers include, but are not limited to:
- Preauthorized credits. You may make arrangements for certain direct deposits (such as social security, other government payments, wages, and salaries) to be accepted into your checking or savings account(s).
- Preauthorized payments. You may make arrangements to pay certain recurring bills from your checking, savings, or money market account(s).
- Electronic check conversion. You may authorize a merchant or other payee to make a one-time electronic payment from your checking account using information from your check to pay for purchases or pay bills.
- Electronic returned check charge. You may authorize a merchant or other payee to initiate an electronic funds transfer to collect a charge in the event a check is returned for insufficient funds.
Please also see Limitations on frequency
of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to savings accounts.
VoiceLine 24 Telephone Transfers - types of transfers - You may access your account by telephone 24 hours a day using a security code, to:
- transfer funds between checking and savings
- make payments from checking or savings to loan accounts with us
- get
information about:
- the account balance of checking or savings
accounts
- the last deposit to checking or savings accounts
- the last withdrawal from checking or savings accounts
- the account balance of checking or savings
accounts
Please also see Limitations on frequency of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to telephone transfers.
ATM transfers - types of transfers, dollar limitations, and charges - You may access your account(s) by ATM using your ATM card and personal identification number (PIN), to:
- make deposits to checking or
savings account(s)
- at ATMs owned or operated by us
- get cash withdrawals from checking
or savings account(s)
- you may withdraw no more than $500.00 per day
- there is a charge of $2.00 at ATMs we do not own or operate
- there is no charge for using your card at any ATM owned by us
- transfer funds from checking
to savings account(s)
- there is a charge of $1.00 at ATMs we do not own or operate
- there is no charge for using your card at any ATM owned by us
- get information about:
- the account balance of your checking
or savings account(s)
- there is a charge of $1.00 at ATMs we do not own or operate
- there is no charge for using your card at any ATM owned by us
- the account balance of your checking
or savings account(s)
Some of these services may not be available at all terminals.
Please also see Limitations on frequency
of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to ATM transfers.
Types of First Money VISA Check Card Point-of-Sale ("P.O.S.") Transactions - You may access your checking account(s) to purchase goods (in person or by phone), pay for services (in person or by phone), get cash from a merchant, if the merchant permits, or from a participating financial institution, and do anything that a participating merchant will accept.
Point-of-Sale Transactions - dollar limitations and charges - Using your card:
- you may not exceed $500.00 cash, $2,000.00 P.O.S. in transactions per day
- An annual fee will not be charged for your VISA card with P.O.S. feature.
Any card(s) that do not have activity within six months may be purged from the system. If this occurs you must order a new card.
Please also see Limitations on frequency of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to debit card transactions.
Advisory Against Illegal Use. You agree not to use your card(s) for illegal gambling or other illegal purpose. Display of a payment card logo by, for example, an online merchant does not necessarily mean that transactions are lawful in all jurisdictions in which the cardholder may be located.Currency Conversion and International Transactions. When you use your First Money VISA Check Card at a merchant that settles in currency other than US dollars, the charge will be converted into the US dollar amount. The currency conversion rate used to determine the transaction amount in US dollars is either a rate selected by Visa from the range of rates available in wholesale currency markets for the applicable central processing date, which rate may vary from the rate Visa itself receives, or the government-mandated rate in effect for the applicable central processing date. The conversion rate in effect on the processing date may differ from the rate in effect on the transaction date or posting date.
Visa USA charges us a .8% International Service Assessment on all international transactions, regardless of whether there is a currency conversion. If there is a currency conversion, the International Service Assessment is 1% of the transaction. In either case, we pass this international transaction fee on to you. An international transaction is a transaction where the country of the merchant is outside the USA.
Verified by VISA. When using your First Money VISA Check Card to purchase goods or services over the Internet, you may come across merchants that use the Verified by VISA program. Verified by VISA is a system designed to reduce disputes and fraudulent activity by ensuring that the person using your First Money VISA Check Card to purchase goods and service online is in fact you. The objective of the program is to improve the security of Internet transactions as well as cardholder and merchant confidence in Internet purchases.
We participate in the Verified by VISA program and are proud to offer you this service. Prior to using the Verified by VISA program you must register for the program. You may sign up for Verified by VISA by going to www.ffbh.com and following the simple online instructions.
IntelliPIN - We have a service that allows a customer to change their personal identification number (PIN) for their ATM/VISA Check Card(s). The service to select PIN numbers is the IntellPIN located at each branch.Online Banking Computer Transfers - types of transfers - You may access your account(s) by computer through the internet by logging onto our website at www.ffbh.com and using your user ID and password, to:
- transfer funds between checking and savings
- make payments from checking or savings to loan account(s) with us
- make payments from checking to third parties using the Bill Pay service
- get information about:
- the account balance of checking or savings account(s)
- deposits to checking or savings accounts
- withdrawals from checking or savings accounts
Please also see Limitations on frequency of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to computer transfers.
Limitations on frequency of transfers - In addition to those limitations on transfers elsewhere described, if any, the following limitations apply:
- Transfers from a Platinum Money Market account to another account or to third parties by preauthorized, automatic, telephone, or computer transfer are limited to six per statement cycle with no more than three by check, debit card, or similar order to third parties.
- Transfers from a savings account to another account or to third parties by preauthorized, automatic, telephone, or computer transfer are limited to six per month with no more than three by drafts to third parties.
- We do not charge for direct deposits to any type of account.
- We do not charge for preauthorized payments from any type of account.
- We do not charge for VoiceLine 24 transfers.
- We will charge $5.00 to replace a lost or damaged ATM or debit card.
Except as indicated elsewhere, we do not charge for these electronic fund transfers.
ATM Operator/Network Fees. When you use an ATM not owned by us, you may be charged a fee by the ATM operator or any network used (and you may be charged a fee for a balance inquiry even if you do not complete a fund transfer).
- Terminal transfers. You can get a receipt at the time you make a transfer to or from your account using an automated teller machine or point-of-sale terminal. However, you may not get a receipt if the amount of the transfer is $15 or less.
- Preauthorized credits. If you have arranged to have direct deposits made to your account at least once every 60 days from the same person or company, you can call us toll free at the Account Information Center, or call your nearest branch office at the phone numbers listed on the back of this disclosure to find out whether or not the deposit has been made.
- Periodic statements.
You will get a monthly account statement from us for your checking accounts.
You will get a monthly account statement from us for your statement savings accounts, unless there are no transfers in a particular month. In any case, you will get a statement at least quarterly.
- Right to stop payment and procedure
for doing so. If you have told us in advance to make regular payments out of
your account, you can stop any of these payments. Here is how:
Call or write us at the telephone number or address listed in this brochure in time for us to receive your request 3 business days or more before the payment is scheduled to be made. If you call, we may also require you to put your request in writing and get it to us within 14 days after you call.
We will charge you $15.00 for each stop-payment order you give. - Notice of varying amounts. If these regular payments may vary in amount, the person you are going to pay will tell you, 10 days before each payment, when it will be made and how much it will be. (You may choose instead to get this notice only when the payment would differ by more than a certain amount from the previous payment, or when the amount would fall outside certain limits that you set.)
- Liability for failure to
stop payment of preauthorized transfer. If you order us to stop one of these
payments 3 business days or more before the transfer is scheduled, and we do not
do so, we will be liable for your losses or damages.
Liability for failure to make transfers. If we do not complete a transfer to or from your account on time or in the correct amount according to our agreement with you, we will be liable for your losses or damages. However, there are some exceptions. We will not be liable, for instance:
- If, through no fault of ours, you do not have enough money in your account to make the transfer.
- If you have an overdraft line and the transfer would go over the credit limit.
- If the automated teller machine where you are making the transfer does not have enough cash.
- If the terminal or system was not working properly and you knew about the breakdown when you started the transfer.
- If circumstances beyond our control (such as fire or flood) prevent the transfer, despite reasonable precautions that we have taken.
- There may be other exceptions stated in our agreement with you.
We will disclose information to third parties about your account or the transfers you make:
- where it is necessary for completing transfers; or
- in order to verify the existence and condition of your account for a third party, such as a credit bureau or merchant; or
- in order to comply with government agency or court orders; or
- as explained in the separate Privacy Disclosure.
(a) Consumer liability.
Generally. Tell us AT ONCE if you believe your card and/or code has been lost or stolen, or if you believe that an electronic fund transfer has been made without your permission using information from your check. Telephoning is the best way of keeping your possible losses down. You could lose all the money in your account (plus your maximum overdraft line of credit). If you tell us within 2 business days after you learn of the loss or theft of your card and/or code, you can lose no more than $50 if someone used your card and/or code without your permission.
If you do NOT tell us within 2 business days after you learn of the loss or theft of your card and/or code, and we can prove we could have stopped someone from using your card and/or code without your permission if you had told us, you could lose as much as $500.
Also, if your statement shows transfers that you did not make, including those made by card, code or other means, tell us at once. If you do not tell us within 60 days after the statement was mailed to you, you may not get back any money you lost after the 60 days if we can prove that we could have stopped someone from taking the money if you had told us in time.
If a good reason (such as a long trip or a hospital stay) kept you from telling us, we will extend the time periods.
Additional Limit on Liability for Visa® check card. Unless you have been grossly negligent or have engaged in fraud, you will not be liable for any unauthorized transactions using your lost or stolen Visa® check card. This additional limit on liability does not apply to ATM transactions or to transactions using your Personal Identification Number which are not processed by VISA®.
(b) Contact in event of unauthorized
transfer. If you believe your card and/or code has been lost or stolen, call
or write us at the telephone number or address listed in this brochure. You should
also call the number or write to the address listed in this brochure if you believe
a transfer has been made using the information from your check without your permission.
In Case of Errors or Questions About Your Electronic Transfers, Call or Write us at the telephone number or address listed in this brochure, as soon as you can, if you think your statement or receipt is wrong or if you need more information about a transfer listed on the statement or receipt. We must hear from you no later than 60 days after we sent the FIRST statement on which the problem or error appeared.
- Tell us your name and account number (if any).
- Describe the error or the transfer you are unsure about, and explain as clearly as you can why you believe it is an error or why you need more information.
- Tell us the dollar amount of the suspected error.
If you tell us orally, we may require that you send us your complaint or question in writing within 10 business days.
We will determine whether an error occurred within 10 business days (5 business days for Visa® check card point-of-sale transactions and 20 business days if the transfer involved a new account) after we hear from you and will correct any error promptly. If we need more time, however, we may take up to 45 days (90 days if the transfer involved a new account, a point-of-sale transaction, or a foreign-initiated transfer) to investigate your complaint or question. If we decide to do this, we will credit your account within 10 business days (5 business days for Visa® check card point-of-sale transactions and 20 business days if the transfer involved a new account) for the amount you think is in error, so that you will have the use of the money during the time it takes us to complete our investigation. If we ask you to put your complaint or question in writing and we do not receive it within 10 business days, we may not credit your account. Your account is considered a new account for the first 30 days after the first deposit is made, unless each of you already has an established account with us before this account is opened.
We will tell you the results within three business days after completing our investigation. If we decide that there was no error, we will send you a written explanation.
You may ask for copies of the documents that we used in our investigation.
FIRST FEDERAL BANK
P.O. BOX 550
HARRISON, ARKANSAS 72602-0550
Business Days: Monday through Friday
Excluding Federal Holidays
Phone: 870.741.7641
MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE
ON REQUEST
As with all financial transactions, please exercise discretion when using an automated teller machine (ATM) or night deposit facility. For your own safety, be careful. The following suggestions may be helpful.
- Prepare for your transactions at home (for instance, by filling out a deposit slip) to minimize your time at the ATM or night deposit facility.
- Mark each transaction in your account record, but not while at the ATM or night deposit facility. Always save your ATM receipts. Don't leave them at the ATM or night deposit facility because they may contain important account information.
- Compare your records with the account statements you receive.
- Don't lend your ATM card to anyone.
- Remember, do not leave your card at the ATM. Do not leave any documents at a night deposit facility.
- Protect the secrecy of your Personal Identification Number (PIN). Protect your ATM card as though it were cash. Don't tell anyone your PIN. Don't give anyone information regarding your ATM card or PIN over the telephone. Never enter your PIN in any ATM that does not look genuine, has been modified, has a suspicious device attached, or is operating in a suspicious manner. Don't write your PIN where it can be discovered. For example, don't keep a note of your PIN in your wallet or purse.
- Prevent others from seeing you enter your PIN by using your body to shield their view.
- If you lose your ATM card or if it is stolen, promptly notify us. You should consult the other disclosures you have received about electronic fund transfers for additional information about what to do if your card is lost or stolen.
- When you make a transaction, be aware of your surroundings. Look out for suspicious activity near the ATM or night deposit facility, particularly if it is after sunset. At night, be sure that the facility (including the parking area and walkways) is well lighted. Consider having someone accompany you when you use the facility, especially after sunset. If you observe any problem, go to another ATM or night deposit facility.
- Don't accept assistance from anyone you don't know when using an ATM or night deposit facility.
- If you notice anything suspicious or if any other problem arises after you have begun an ATM transaction, you may want to cancel the transaction, pocket your card and leave. You might consider using another ATM or coming back later.
- Don't display your cash; pocket it as soon as the ATM transaction is completed and count the cash later when you are in the safety of your own car, home, or other secure surrounding.
- At a drive-up facility, make sure all the car doors are locked and all of the windows are rolled up, except the driver's window. Keep the engine running and remain alert to your surroundings.
- We want the ATM and night deposit facility to be safe and convenient for you. Therefore, please tell us if you know of any problem with a facility. For instance, let us know if a light is not working or there is any damage to a facility. Please report any suspicious activity or crimes to both the operator of the facility and the local law enforcement officials immediately.
This policy statement applies to "transaction" accounts and savings accounts. Transaction accounts, in general, are accounts which permit an unlimited number of payments to third persons and an unlimited number of telephone and preauthorized transfers to other accounts of yours with us. Checking accounts are the most common transaction accounts. Feel free to ask us whether any of your other accounts might also be under this policy.
Our policy is to make funds from your check deposits available to you on the first business day after the day we receive your deposit. Deposits of cash, wire transfers, and electronic direct deposits will be available on the day we receive the deposit. Once the funds are available, you can withdraw them in cash and we will use the funds to pay checks that you have written.
Please remember that even after we have made funds available to you, and you have withdrawn the funds, you are still responsible for checks you deposit that are returned to us unpaid and for any other problems involving your deposit.
For determining the availability of your deposits, every day is a business day, except Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays. If you make a deposit before closing 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 after closing or on a day we are not open, we will consider that the deposit was made on the next business day we are open.
If you make a deposit at an ATM before 3:00 P.M. 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 3:00 P.M. or on a day we are not open, we will consider that the deposit was made on the next business day we are open.
If we cash a check for you that is drawn on another bank, we may withhold the availability of a corresponding amount of funds that are already in your account. Those funds will be available at the time funds from the check we cashed would have been available if you had deposited it.
If we accept for deposit a check that is drawn on another bank, we may make funds from the deposit available for withdrawal immediately but delay your availability to withdraw a corresponding amount of funds that you have on deposit in another account with us. The funds in the other account would then not be available for withdrawal until the time periods that are described elsewhere in this disclosure for the type of check that you deposited.
Funds you deposit by check may be delayed for a longer period under the following circumstances:
- We believe a check you deposit will not be paid.
- You deposit checks totaling more than $5,000 on any one day.
- You redeposit a check that has been returned unpaid.
- You have overdrawn your account repeatedly in the last six months.
- There is an emergency, such as failure of computer or communications equipment.
We will notify you if we delay your ability to withdraw funds for any of these reasons, and we will tell you when the funds will be available. They will generally be available no later than the ninth business day after the day of your deposit.
If you are a new customer, the following special rules will apply during the first 15 days your account is open.
Funds from deposits of cash, wire transfers, and electronic direct deposits into your account will be available on the day we receive the deposit. Funds from the first $5,000 of a day's total deposits of cashier's, certified, teller's, traveler's, and federal, state and local government checks will be available on the first business day after the day of your deposit if the deposit meets certain conditions. For example, the checks must be payable to you (and you may have to use a special deposit slip). The excess over $5,000 will be available on the fifth business day after the day of your deposit. If your deposit of these checks (other than a U.S. Treasury check) is not made in person to one of our employees, the first $5,000 will not be available until the second business day after the day of your deposit.
Funds from all other check deposits
will be available on the fifth business day after the day of your deposit.
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
When the ADVANTAGE Checking requirements are met:
- If your daily balance is $49,999.99 or less, the advantage rate is paid on the entire balance*
- If your daily balance is $50,000.00 or more, the advantage rate will be paid on the balance up to $49,999.99 and another rate will be paid on the balance of $50,000.00 and greater*
When the ADVANTAGE Checking requirements are not met, the base rate will be paid on the entire balance*
*See current Rate Sheet for applicable rates for each tier.Frequency and determination of rate changes - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate and annual percentage yield on your account every day.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to your account every month.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $50.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to avoid imposition of fees - No minimum balance is required.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Eligibility Requirements - To qualify for ADVANTAGE Checking rates and ATM fee refunds, you must:
- Make 12 debit card point of sale transactions each qualification cycle**
- Set up one direct deposit or one auto debit each qualification cycle**
- Enroll and receive your
monthly statement electronically
- **Qualification cycle means a period beginning one day prior to the first day of the current statement cycle through one business day prior to the close of the current statement cycle.
If monthly requirements are not met, we will pay not less than the base rate on your account.
Additional Information - If
you have met your eligibility requirements for the qualification cycle, we will
refund domestic ATM fees up to $25.00 per cycle.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $50.00 to open this account.
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change. Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to your account every month.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $50.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to avoid imposition of fees - No minimum balance is required. This account is for automatic draft of mortgage loan, installment loan or direct deposit customers.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - A minimum balance does not have to be maintained to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits
- Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day
you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change. Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to your account every month.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $50.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to avoid imposition of fees - No minimum balance is required. No service charge will be assessed.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - A minimum balance does not have to be maintained to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change. Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to your account every month.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $50.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to avoid imposition of fees - You must maintain $1,500.00 to obtain the highest interest offered. If the balance is under $1,500.00 the account will receive the same interest rate as other checking accounts. A service charge of $8.00 will be imposed every statement cycle if the balance in the account falls below $1,500.00 any day of the cycle.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - A minimum balance does not have to be maintained to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Account tiers:
- If your daily balance is $75,000.00 or more, the interest rate is paid on the entire balance *.
- If your daily balance is $50,000.00 to $74,999.99, the interest rate is paid on the entire balance *.
- If your daily balance is $25,000.00 to $49,999.99, the interest rate is paid on the entire balance *.
- If your daily balance is $10,000.00 to $24,999.99, the interest rate is paid on the entire balance *.
- If your daily balance is $0.00 to $9,999.99, the interest rate is paid on the entire balance *.
* See current Rate Sheet for applicable rates for each tier.
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change. Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to your account every month.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $1,000.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to avoid imposition of fees - A service charge fee of $10.00 will be imposed every statement cycle if the balance in the account falls below $1,000.00 any day of the cycle.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - No minimum balance required to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Transaction limitations: Transfers from a Platinum Money Market account to another account or to third parties by preauthorized, automatic, telephone, or computer transfer are limited to six per statement cycle with no more than three by check, draft, or similar order to third parties.
Fees: A $10.00 fee will be imposed on every transaction that exceeds the limitations during the period.
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change. Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every quarter. Interest will be credited to your account every quarter.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $100.00 to open this account. If the minimum daily balance falls below $10.00 this account may be closed.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - You must maintain a minimum balance of $200.00 in the account each day to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Transaction limitations: Transfers from a Statement Savings account to another account or to third parties by preauthorized, automatic, telephone, or computer transfer are limited to six per calendar month with no more than three drafts to third parties.
Fees: A $2.00 fee will be imposed on every transaction that exceeds the limitations during the period.
For children 12 years of age and younger. Account will convert to Statement Savings at age 13.
Rate Information - Your interest
rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every quarter. Interest will be credited to your account every quarter.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $10.00 to open this account. If the minimum daily balance falls below $10.00 this account may be closed.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - You must maintain a minimum balance of $100.00 ($200.00 after reaching age 13) in the account each day to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Transaction limitations: Transfers from a Chester Investor account to another account or to third parties by preauthorized, automatic, telephone, or computer transfer are limited to six per calendar month with no more than three drafts to third parties.
Fees: A $2.00 fee will be imposed on every transaction that exceeds the limitations during the period.
Rate Information - Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your account every day.
Determination of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Compounding and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded every quarter. Interest will be credited to your account every quarter.
Minimum balance to open the account - You must deposit $10.00 to open this account. If the minimum daily balance falls below $10.00 this account may be closed.
Minimum balance to obtain the annual percentage yield disclosed - You must maintain a minimum balance of $200.00 in the account each day to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield.
Daily balance computation method - We use the daily balance method to calculate the interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to accrue on the first business day after the business day you deposit noncash items (for example, checks).
Transaction limitations: Transfers from a Christmas Club account to another account or to third parties by preauthorized, automatic, telephone, or computer transfer are limited to six per calendar month with no more than three drafts to third parties.
Fees: A $2.00 fee will be imposed on every transaction that exceeds the limitations during the period.
During the first week of November, a Christmas Club check will be mailed for the balance of the account. If a deposit is made by May 31st of the following year, the account will remain open.
The following fees may be assessed against your account and the following transaction limitations, if any, apply to your account.
- ATM transactions
- First Federal locations - Free
- ATMs not owned by First Federal
- Withdrawals - $2.00
- Inquiries/transfers - $1.00
- Replace lost ATM card/debit card - $5.00
- Incoming wire transfers - $5.00
- Domestic wire transfers (Outgoing) - $15.00
- Foreign wire transfers (Outgoing) - $50.00
- Overdraft protection transfer fee - $10.00 per day
- Redirect check/draft - $5.00 per item
- Check/form printing - (fee depends on style and quantity of check/form ordered)
- Counter checks (encoded) - $1.00 per page
- Cashier's checks/Bank checks - $5.00 per check
- Traveler's checks (American Express) - 1% of amount purchased
- Gift Card - $4.95 per card
- Money order - $2.00 per order
- Rolled coin - $.05 per roll
- Collection items - outgoing or incoming - $8.00
- Garnishments - $45.00
- Levies - $25.00
- Inactive/Dormant checking account fee - $4.00
- This fee is charged monthly and will apply to interest and non-interest bearing checking, and MMDA accounts that have no activity for six months and have an account balance of less than $100.00.
- Dormant savings account fee - $3.00
- This fee is charged each quarter and will apply to Savings accounts that have no deposits or withdrawals for three years and have a balance of $100.00 or less.
- Nonsufficient funds (NSF) - paid or returned - $27.00
- Stop payments - each - $15.00
- Stop payment - NSF - $27.00
- If the balance in the account would not pay stopped item.
- Non Readable Checks Rejected - $5.00 per check
- Premature Closing Fee (if closed within 90 days) - $15.00
- Account history - $1.00
- Duplicate Statement - $3.00 per month
- Statement No Mail - $5.00 per month
- Returned Mail Fee - $5.00
- Account research - $20.00 per hour plus $.25 per page
- with a minimum of $10.00 per request
- Account balancing assistance - $20.00 per hour
- Photocopies - $.25 per item
- Notary service
- Customer - Free
- Non-Customer - $5.00 per item
- Signature guarantee
- Customer - Free
- Safe Deposit Box
- 3 x 5 - $18.00 per year
- 5 x 5 (not available in all offices) - $25.00 per year
- 3 x 10 - $30.00 per year
- 5 x 10 (not available in all offices) - $45.00 per year
- 10 x 10 (not available in all offices) - $62.50 per year
- (20% discount per box with auto-debit from an account at First Federal)
- Late Payment Fee (30 days) - $5.00
- Lost key - $10.00
- Drilling box - $125.00
We may require not less than 7 days' notice in writing before each withdrawal from an interest-bearing account other than a time deposit, or from any other savings account as defined by Regulation D. Withdrawals from a time account prior to maturity or prior to any notice period may be restricted and may be subject to penalty. See your notice of penalty for early withdrawal.
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