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Customer Obligations
3.3 Indemnity and Limitation of Liability
1. Impose special terms upon the Customer as the Corporation deems
necessary or appropriate until each condition or discrepancy is resolved to
the Corporation’s satisfaction so as to enable the Customer to be and to
remain in full compliance with Rule 3.2, or
2. Require the Customer to withdraw from Participation.
3.2.6 Nondiscrimination—Europe Region Only
NOTE
A Rule on this topic appears in Section 12b, “SEPA Rules.”
3.2.7 Acquirers
NOTE
A Rule on this topic appears in Chapter 10, “Asia/Pacific Region Rules,” Chapter
13, “Latin America and the Caribbean Region Rules,” and Chapter 15, “United
States Region Rules.”
3.3 Indemnity and Limitation of Liability
Each Customer (each, for the purposes of this Rule, an “Indemnifying
Customer”) must protect, indemnify, and hold harmless the Corporation and
the Corporation’s parent and subsidiaries and affiliated entities, and each of
the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Corporation and the
Corporation’s parent and subsidiaries and affiliated entities from any actual
or threatened claim, demand, obligation, loss, cost, liability and/or expense
(including, without limitation, actual attorneys’ fees, costs of investigation,
and disbursements) resulting from and/or arising in connection with, any act
or omission of the Indemnifying Customer, its subsidiaries, or any person
associated with the Indemnifying Customer or its subsidiaries (including,
without limitation, such Indemnifying Customer’s directors, officers, employees
and agents, all direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates of
the Indemnifying Customer, the Indemnifying Customer’s customers in
connection with issuing and/or acquiring Activity and/or other business, and
the Indemnifying Customer’s suppliers, including, without limitation, any
Service Providers, and other persons acting for, or in connection with the
Indemnifying Customer or a Merchant for which the Indemnifying Customer
acquires Transactions, and/or any such Merchant’s employees, representatives,
agents suppliers, customers, including any Data Storage Entity (DSE) with
respect to, or relating to:
1. Any programs and/or Activities of the Indemnifying Customer;
2. Any programs and/or activities of any person associated with the
Indemnifying Customer and/or its subsidiaries;
3. The compliance or non-compliance with the Standards by the Indemnifying
Customer;
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MasterCard Rules • 12 December 2012 3-7