Maestro Global Rules (PDF) - MasterCard

Customer Obligations
3.18 Expenses of Customers
An Affiliate and its Sponsoring Principal may make other agreements or
arrangements governing their relationships (including such matters as fees),
providing these agreements or arrangements comply with the paragraph above.
3.18 Expenses of Customers
Each Customer is responsible for all the expenses they incur to comply with
the Rules, and the regulations, policies and technical specifications of the
Corporation, including, but not limited to computer hardware and software
modifications, establishing and maintaining communication lines between a
Processor and the Interchange System, and between each POI Terminal and its
data processing facility. Nothing contained in this section limits the freedom
of each Principal and Affiliate to negotiate the terms and conditions of their
Sponsorship or License.
3.19 Fees, Expenses and Other Payment Obligations
If a Customer does not timely pay the Corporation or any other person
any amount due under the Standards, then the Corporation has the right,
immediately and without providing prior notice to the Customer, to assess
and collect from that Customer, on a current basis as the Corporation deems
necessary or appropriate, such amount, as well as the actual attorneys’ fees and
other costs incurred by the Corporation in connection with any successful effort
to collect such amount from that Customer.
The Corporation may assess and collect such amount at any time after the
applicable amount becomes due, by any means available to the Corporation,
which shall specifically include, by way of example and not limitation:
1. The taking or setoff of funds or other assets of the Customer held by the
Corporation;
2. The taking or setoff of funds from any account of the Customer upon which
the Corporation is authorized to draw;
3. The taking of funds due to the Customer from any other Customer; and
4. The taking of funds being paid by the Customer to any other Customer.
Each Customer expressly authorizes the Corporation to take the Customer’s
funds and other assets as authorized by this Rule, and to apply such funds and
other assets to any obligation of the Customer to the Corporation or any other
person under the Standards, and no Customer shall have any claim against the
Corporation or any other person in respect of such conduct by the Corporation.
Each Customer agrees upon demand to promptly execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Corporation such instruments, agreements, lien waivers, releases,
and other documents as the Corporation may, from time to time, request in
order to exercise its rights under this Rule.
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Maestro Global Rules • 9 November 2012 3-17