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Liabilities and Indemnification
13.1 Warrant Compliance by Sponsored Customers
13.1 Warrant Compliance by Sponsored Customers
1. Every Principal warrants that each Customer it Sponsors will perform and
discharge all its responsibilities, duties, obligations and liabilities arising
in connection with the Rules, its License agreement, other applicable
agreements, and the regulations, policies and technical specifications of
the Corporation.
Principals are liable to the Corporation and other Customers for the actions,
or failures to act, of their Sponsored Customers to the same extent that such
Principals would be liable if such actions, or failures to act, were their own.
2. All Customers make the same warranties and assume these same liabilities
with regard to entities whose ATMs they connect, directly or indirectly, to
the Interchange System, as they do with regard to Sponsored Customers,
including, without limitation, those warranties and liabilities described in
13.1 (1) of this rulebook.
13.2 Liability of Affiliates
Each Affiliate is responsible for the liabilities and obligations arising out of, or in
connection with, its Card programs or acquiring Activities which includes, but is
not limited to, the obligation of a Customer to pay its Merchants, as required in
Chapter 7, “Acquiring,” Rule 7.2 (9) of this rulebook except to the extent any
such liability or obligation has been previously satisfied by its Principal.
In accordance with the Standards and in compliance with applicable law, each
Principal will have access to and may use or otherwise process its Sponsored
Affiliates’ confidential information and Confidential Transaction Data (as defined
in Rule 3.7.2 of this rulebook) in connection with authorization, settlement,
clearing, fraud reporting, chargebacks, billing, and other related activities.
13.3 Liability for Owned or Controlled Entities
For the purposes of this section, the term “customer” means a Customer (as
such term is defined in the MasterCard Rules and Customer (as such term is
defined in the Maestro Global Rules and the Cirrus Worldwide Operating Rules).
Each customer (a “Responsible Customer”) shall irrevocably and unconditionally
guarantee, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, to the Corporation
and all other customers, the prompt payment and performance of the
obligations (the “Guaranteed Obligations”) of each of the Responsible
Customer’s affiliated entities arising under the Standards (as such term is
defined in the MasterCard Rules, the Maestro Global Rules, and the Cirrus
Worldwide Operating Rules, respectively), and from such affiliated entity’s
MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus Activities and use of the Marks (as defined in
the MasterCard Rules) and the Marks (as such term is defined in the Maestro
Global Rules and the Cirrus Worldwide Operating Rules).
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