Easy Cash Card Limited, a company incorporated in England with registered number 10623187 whose registered address is at Lava House 1st Floor 57 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, England, M4 4FS is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) under the Payment Services Regulations 2009 (SI 2009 No. 209) (the “Regulations”) for the provision of payment services with FCA register number 932703 and trades under the name ‘Lava E-Remit’ (hereinafter “we”, “our” or “us”).
These terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”) are applicable to and are available on our website lavae-remit.co.uk (“Our Website”). They explain many of your responsibilities to us and our responsibilities to you, how and when our agreement with you can be terminated and the extent of our liability to you. In addition, further information is available under the ‘FAQ’ section of Our Website.
YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO CLAUSE 15 OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WHICH SETS OUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH WE MAY TERMINATE OUR AGREEMENT WITH YOU PRIOR TO COMPLETION OF A PAYMENT TRANSACTION.
WHEN YOU REGISTER ON OUR WEBSITE AND BY USING ANY OF OUR SERVICES DESCRIBED IN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF OUR SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU TAKE THE TIME TO READ THEM CAREFULLY.
Our obligations under these Terms and Conditions are conditional upon our acceptance of you as a user, which is at our sole discretion and we reserve the right to decline to provide Our Services to you without specifying a reason. You must promptly supply us with all information and documentation which we may ask you for at any time to enable us to comply with any legal requirements on us relating to Our Services, including as required by anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulation, and you consent to us contacting you for these purposes.
The following terms used throughout these Terms and Conditions shall have the meaning and scope indicated below:
“Business Day” means 9am to 4.30pm GMT Monday to Friday excluding Bank Holidays and Public Holidays in England.
“Our Group” is defined in clause 20 below.
“Our Services” means our money transfer services.
“Our Website” is defined in the paragraph headed ‘Introduction’ above.
“Paying Agent” means a natural person or a legal entity acting as a third-party provider of payment services or an agent acting on our behalf or on behalf of an affiliate in Our Group (for the avoidance of doubt such affiliates include Continental Exchange Solutions, Inc.) who pays out a Payment Transaction initiated by you in the destination country identified by you.
“Payment Order” means all instructions submitted by you to us requesting the execution of a Payment Transaction.
“Payment Transaction” means the transfer of money to a Recipient.
“Recipient” means the individual designated by you as the receiver of the Payment Transaction, who is a natural person and acceptable to us, and who receives the money transfer via a designated Paying Agent.
“Regulations” is defined in the paragraph headed ‘Introduction’ above.
The terms “you”, “yours”, and “user” means you the person who is contracting with us for the provision of Our Services.
Each Payment Transaction which we perform for you is a separate contract which incorporates these Terms and Conditions.
We may amend these Terms and Conditions from time to time, for example in order to comply with changes in the law or regulatory requirements or due to changes in market conditions.
If we make any change to these Terms and Conditions, we will do so by email and/or by post and/or by placing the revised version of these Terms and Conditions on Our Website. We will also inform you of the date from which any change is to take effect (the “Effective Date”). If you wish to receive a written copy of these Terms and Conditions by post, we will send to the postal address we hold for you upon request.
Changes that we make to these Terms and Conditions will normally only apply to Payment Orders entered into after the Effective Date but will also apply to Payment Orders entered into before the Effective Date where we are required to make them do so by law or regulatory requirements. In any event, and for the avoidance of doubt, the updated version of these Terms and Conditions shall supersede the previous version.
We do not guarantee that Our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of Our Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice (for example by posting a message on Our Website) of any scheduled suspension or withdrawal.
By using Our Website, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years or older and of legal age to enter into a binding contract with us. If it comes to our attention through reliable means that a user is under 18 years of age, we will cancel that user’s account and will delete all information regarding such user from our system and records.
Upon our acceptance of you as a user and completion of our new client registration form we will provide you with access codes to Our Website which consist of a user name and a password which you can change by following the instructions set out on Our Website (the “Access Codes”). You will be able to access Our Services via Our Website by correctly entering your Access Codes but in no other circumstances. Your Access Codes are strictly confidential, personal and non-transferable. It is your responsibility to ensure that Our Website is only accessed by you and that you keep your Access Codes and any other security features associated with your access to Our Website safe and secure. Subject to the Regulations you shall be responsible for damages caused to us as a consequence of unauthorised use of such Access Codes by third parties. If you become aware or have any suspicion that your Access Codes are no longer confidential or have been compromised in any way then you must contact us immediately. Any undue delay in contacting us may affect the security of Our Services and / or result in you being liable for any losses as a result.
You agree to ensure that you log-out from Our Website at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when using your Access Codes to access Our Website from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your Access Codes. We reserve the right to disable any user name and/or password, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have failed to comply with any provision of these Terms and Conditions.
You must provide and / or obtain any equipment or telecommunications lines including a computer or device and an operating system and a printer to print out and retain records on paper, in electronic storage or on other durable medium, as may be necessary for you to use Our Services. You acknowledge that certain software and equipment used by you may not be capable of supporting certain features of Our Services. You should print out and retain a copy of all of the notices, disclosures and statements we send to you electronically.
By “current version,” we mean a version of the software that is being supported and is compatible with Our Website at any given time.
We reserve the right to discontinue support of a current version of software if, in our opinion, it suffers from a security or other flaw that makes it unsuitable for use with Our Services.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to communicate with you via the post.
We are not responsible for the content, policies, goods or services of any other persons or websites linked to or accessible via Our Website. The existence of any link to any other website does not constitute an endorsement of or association with any such website or any person operating any such website. Any reliance on any content, policies or services of any other persons or websites is at your sole risk. Any queries, concerns or complaints concerning such websites should be directed to the persons responsible for their operation.
You may bookmark Our Website or add it to your favourites, but you must not create a link to any part of Our Website or in any way suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
Subject to these Terms and Conditions you will be able to use Our Services by logging into Our Website and giving us your Payment Orders, which are available for Payment Transactions to a wide choice of destination countries and in a wide choice of currencies as set out from time to time on Our Website.
Payment Orders must include such information as we from time to time determine that we require in order to provide Our Services to you including the following information:
Name and other details identifying the Recipient.
Destination country of the Payment Transaction.
Amount and currency of the Payment Transaction.
In case of a Payment Transaction to a Recipient’s bank account, the IBAN code (International Bank Account Number) when such bank account has an IBAN code, or the bank account code as corresponds in each case.
We will only accept a Payment Order which is given to us through Our Website. Your instruction to perform a Payment Transaction will be treated by us as your consent to us to go ahead with and our authorisation to perform that Payment Transaction.
Further information and explanation about the steps you need to take to ask us to perform a Payment Transaction for you will be given to you when you ask us to do this and can be found under the “FAQ” sections of Our Website.
Before we execute any Payment Order, you must ensure that we have received the amount of funds which we tell you are required for the Payment Transaction to proceed in cleared funds immediately available to us by payment made by either debit or credit card. Please note we do not provide credit and are not able to advance any amount to cover any amount of a Payment Transaction.
We accept the following designated method of payment to us for the execution of Payment Transactions pursuant to Payment Orders (initiated by you through Our Website):
You are responsible for ensuring that your designated payment method has sufficient funds or credit available to ensure that the funds required for the Payment Transaction to proceed are received by us and received by us on time.
You acknowledge and agree that all Payment Transactions authorised by you are subject to all applicable UK and foreign laws and regulation.
Your card issuer and/or your bank or credit institution will also have terms and conditions that apply to your use of your card or bank account and you must refer to such agreement(s) when making the funds required for the Payment Transaction to proceed available to us as such terms and conditions which may include the application of fees and charges and other terms and conditions imposed by your card issuer and/or your bank or credit institution.
If you ask us to execute a Payment Order for a Payment Transaction in favour of a Recipient in a currency other than pounds sterling then we will apply an exchange rate in addition to any service charge and we will tell you what this exchange rate is.
For further information about the price calculator (setting out available currencies and countries and exchange rates), payout locations and customer fee and exchange rates, please consult Our Website.
If we receive a Payment Order by 3.00pm (GMT) on a Business Day, the Payment Order will be deemed to have been received by us on that Business Day. If a Payment Order is received by us after 3.00pm (GMT) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the Payment Order will be deemed to have been received on the next Business Day.
Once a Payment Order is received by us it shall be irrevocable except to the extent that it may be withdrawn by you as provided for in the Regulations and as set out in clause 17.
If we proceed to execute a Payment Order based on incorrect details received by us from you then we will not be liable for any losses incurred, although we will attempt to assist in the recovery of the payment amount and we reserve the right to charge you a fee to cover our reasonable costs for doing this.
Subject to the Regulations we may, in our sole discretion, refuse to proceed with a Payment Transaction. Examples of when we may refuse to proceed with a Payment Transaction are set out in clause 14 and also include:
Where the intended Recipient is anyone other than a natural person.
Where we are required to do so under applicable anti-money laundering or terrorist financing legislation and /or where we know or suspect the Payment Transaction may be unlawful (including for instances of fraud).
You have failed to provide us with sufficient, satisfactory and reliable evidence of your identity or any other information we require in relation to a Payment Transaction.
Where we know or suspect that the Payment Order requested by you contains errors or is not authorised by you.
Receipt of a Payment Order by us in circumstances where there is insufficient time for us to ensure the execution of the requested Payment Transaction by the requested time.
You have failed to provide us the amount of the funds which we tell you are required for the Payment Transaction to proceed in cleared funds immediately available to us.
You are in breach of an obligation under these Terms and Conditions including an obligation to pay our fees.
We reserve the right not to accept or allow payments from or to, either directly or indirectly, certain countries which we have determined, acting in our sole discretion, are high risk to our business or involve a higher level of complexity for us in carrying out our anti-money laundering or anti-terrorist financing legislation transaction monitoring process.
We further reserve the right to request additional information from you, including information on the Recipient, where payments are to be made to certain countries acting in our sole discretion.
If we refuse to proceed with the execution of a Payment Order in accordance with these Terms and Conditions we will prior to the end of the Business Day following receipt of the Payment Order tell you and where it is possible and lawful for us to do this we will tell you the reasons for this and how to rectify the situation in the case of incorrect information you have provided to us or failed to provide to us.
Once a Payment Order has been accepted by us in accordance with these Terms and Conditions then we shall provide you with the following information, without any undue delay, in electronic format.
Where a Payment Order is governed by the Regulations we shall proceed with the execution of the Payment Order within a maximum execution time of the end of the second Business Day after the date we have received your Payment Order or the date on which you have made the required cleared funds immediately available to us (whichever is the later date).
Once the Payment Transaction has been confirmed you will automatically receive an e-mail notification at the address provided by you to us confirming submission of the Payment Transaction. Once the Payment Transaction has been executed by us you will also receive e-mail notifications at the address provided by you to us confirming (i) when the funds have arrived at the Paying Agent and (ii) when the funds have been collected by the Recipient. If a Payment Transaction is not paid to a Recipient within 21 or 30 days (depending on the relevant Paying Agent involved in the Payment Transaction), we will automatically cancel the Payment Transaction and notify you accordingly. Thereafter, the funds comprising the Payment Transaction will not be available for collection by the Recipient and will be held by us on trust until reimbursement (which shall be via the same payment method you used to fund the Payment Transaction).
Where you believe we may have performed a Payment Transaction you did not authorise us to perform, you should let us know as soon as possible via the contact details set out at clause 25 below. We will then investigate the matter.
Subject to the paragraphs below, where we have performed such a Payment Transaction, we will immediately refund to you in full the amount of that Payment Transaction.
You will not be entitled to any such refund:
You will be liable to us for all losses which we suffer or incur relating to any fraud or fraudulent activity by you at any time.
Where you believe we may have failed to perform or incorrectly performed such a Payment Transaction, you should let us know as soon as possible and, if you request, we will make immediate efforts to investigate the matter and let you know the outcome of our investigation.
Subject to the paragraphs below, where we have failed to perform or incorrectly performed such a Payment Transaction, we will without undue delay make good and correct the error and deliver the amount of the unperformed or incorrectly performed Payment Transaction as originally instructed.
You will not be entitled to the remedy mentioned above:
We will have no liability to you for failure to perform or incorrect performance of a Payment Transaction where the reason for this was our refusal to proceed with that Payment Transaction or any part of it.
In accordance with the Regulations and before execution of a Payment Order we shall provide information to you regarding the fees and costs and any applicable exchange rates by means of a communication provided through Our Website.
In addition to any fees charged by us a Payment Transaction may be subject to other fees and costs and exchange rates payable to other parties for example banks and other payment institutions involved in the Payment Transaction as well as deductions that may apply (for example for tax reasons) as required by the authorities of the destination country of the Payment Transaction. The amount that we deduct will be no more than the amount of our legal liability.
If you use your mobile phone in connection with a Payment Transaction you are also responsible for any fees that your phone service provider charges, such as fees for SMS, data services, and any other fees that your phone service provider may charge.
Our Services are offered only for your personal Payment Transaction needs and you agree not to use or attempt to use or allow any third party to use Our Services for any other purpose including commercial purposes or promotion of products and services whether directly or indirectly. You further agree not to use Our Services on behalf of any other party.
Our Services are subject to such transactional restrictions as we may from time to time in our sole discretion impose including as to the maximum amount of Payment Transactions and destination countries and available currencies.
The provisions of this clause 15 (Termination) and clauses 18 (Changes beyond our Control), 21 (Personal Data Protection), 27 (Applicable Law and Jurisdiction), 22 (Limitation of Liability) 28 (Third Party Rights) and 33 (Entire Agreement) shall survive the termination or expiry of these Terms and Conditions for any reason.
We will report any suspicious activity to the relevant law enforcement agency.
If any Payment Transaction is conducted or attempted to be conducted in breach of the acceptable purpose prohibitions applicable from time to time we reserve the right to reverse the Payment Transaction, and/or close or suspend your use of Our Services and / or report the transaction to the relevant law enforcement agency and/or claim damages from you.
(each a “Cancellation”)
Notwithstanding the above, if you provide us with clear instructions that you no longer wish to proceed with a Payment Transaction other than in the circumstances described above, we will attempt to cancel the Payment Transaction prior to the Payment Transaction being paid out to the Recipient. We will not however be liable for any losses incurred and we reserve the right to charge you a fee to cover our reasonable costs for doing this.
In the event of a Cancellation and where you do not give us clear instructions in writing to carry out an alternative Payment Transaction for you within 10 (ten) days of the date of the Cancellation we reserve the right to treat these Terms and Conditions as terminated by you and the provisions of clause 15 will apply.
As part of your relationship with us, you may receive electronic notifications and communications in writing related to Our Services. In the light of our commitment to protecting the environment and to facilitate the use of Our Services, please be informed that such electronic notifications and communications will be carried out in electronic form. To this end, and to the extent permitted by applicable law at any given time, you agree to receive in electronic format all information that we would otherwise be required to provide to you in paper form, including, but not limited to: email confirmation of pick-up of a Payment Transaction, these Terms and Conditions, any updates or changes in these Terms and Conditions, and other informational mailings regarding the same.
In order to ensure that we are able to provide notices, disclosures and statements to you electronically, you must notify us of any change in your e-mail or other electronic address. You may update the e-mail address we have on record for you through Our Website.
You are permitted to use Our Website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly show, publicly display, republish, download, store or transmit any of the material on our site, except to: (a) save copies of such materials temporarily in “Random Access Memory”; (b) store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes; and (c) print a reasonable number of pages of Our Website for a permitted use.
You must not: (a) modify copies of any materials from Our Website; or (b) delete or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this site. You must not use any images, graphics, video or audio separately from any accompanying text.
You must not reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes any part of Our Website, access to Our Website or use of Our Website or any services or materials available through Our Website.
If you print, copy, modify, download or otherwise use any part of Our Website in breach of the Terms and Conditions, your right to use Our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title or interest in Our Website or any content on the site is transferred to you, and we, our licensors, along with any of the companies that form part of Our Group and their licensors, all reserve all rights not expressly granted. Any use of Our Website not expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions is a breach of these Terms and Conditions and may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.
If we contravene any requirements imposed on us under Part 6 of the Regulations (which sets out certain obligations on us as a payment service provider, including relating to unauthorised, unperformed and incorrectly performed Payment Transactions), we will not be liable to you where this is due to abnormal and unforeseeable consequences beyond our control, the consequences of which would have been unavoidable despite all efforts by us to the contrary or where this is due to other obligations imposed on us under other provisions of European Community or national law.
We will accept all liability if something we do causes death or injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees or agent. We will also accept all liability for fraudulent misrepresentation and any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.
Your use of Our Website, its content and Our Services obtained through Our Website is at your own risk. Insofar as is permitted in law: (a) Our Website, its content and Our Services obtained through Our Website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without any representations, warranties or guarantees of any kind, either expressed or implied; and (b) neither we nor any person associated with us makes any warranty or representation with respect to the completeness, security, reliability, quality, accuracy, timeliness or availability of Our Website. Without prejudice to the foregoing, except to the extent required by law, neither we nor anyone associated with us represents or warrants that Our Website, it’s content or any services or items obtained through Our Website will be accurate, reliable, error-free or uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, that Our Website or the server(s) that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components or that Our Website or any services or items obtained through Our Website will otherwise meet your needs or expectations. By means of this clause 24, we hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement and fitness for particular purpose. The foregoing does not affect any warranties which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law including under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
If you would like further details of our complaints policy refer to the Complaints Policy on Our Website. If you are still dissatisfied following our response to any complaint, you have a right to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service, Exchange Tower, London E14 9SR. Further information about making a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service can be accessed at www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
We may assign, transfer, charge or dispose of these Terms and Conditions in whole or in part or any of our obligations, rights or privileges to any other person at any time (including to any affiliates in Our Group), but we will take appropriate steps to try to ensure that doing so will not harm any of your rights under these Terms and Conditions.
Lava e-remit is a trading style of Easy Cash Card Limited (Company Reg No: 10623187) Registered office: Lava House 1st Floor 57 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, England, M4 4FS is licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA no: 932703) as a payment institution to conduct money services and licensed by HMRC as a Money Service Business (MSB) Registration number XDML00000156710.
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