Terms of Service- Digital Current Account


These terms and conditions, along with any agreements, annexures, exhibits, or any additionalservice terms applicable to the Digital Current Account services opened through Digital Portal (asdefined below) (“Digital CA Terms”), apply when you ("you" or "Customer") opt to avail DigitalCurrent Account services (“Digital CA Services") provided or made available by slice Small FinanceBank Limited (the "Bank", "we", "us" or "our”) either through any digital platform operated by theBank including but not limited to slice business application or by any authorised third-party ("DigitalPortal").

In addition to the Mobile Banking Terms, the Digital CA Terms along with any other agreements ordocuments executed / accepted by you, apply to you for availing the Digital CA Services. Digital CATerms

By registering for using Digital CA Services, you signify that you have read, understood and agree toyour agreement to be bound by these Digital CA Terms without any limitation. If you do not agree withthese Digital CA Terms, please do not register or avail Digital CA Services.

The headings contained in these Digital CA Terms are for reference purposes only.

These Digital CA Terms incorporate the Privacy Policy of the Bank (including any updates andamendments), available here by reference.

Definitions

In these Terms, the following words and phrases will have the meaning stated hereunder unlessindicated otherwise:

“Applicant" refers to an individual or sole proprietor who submits a formal request to the Bank forthe opening of the Digital Current Account, subject to the eligibility criteria provided in these DigitalCA Terms and Banks' policies and procedures, on the Digital Portal Digital CA Services.

“Chargeback” refers to the reversal of a payment transaction initiated by the Customer’s bank inresponse to a dispute or claim that the transaction was unauthorized, fraudulent, or not inaccordance with the terms agreed upon.

“Debit Card” is a physical and/or virtual payment instrument linked to a Digital Current Accountwhich can be used by the Customer to withdraw cash, make domestic online payments, point of sale(PoS) terminal or quick response (QR) code transactions, cash withdrawal through domestic PoS and contactless payments subject to applicable laws.

“Digital Current Account” means a form of non-interest bearing demand deposit where fromwithdrawals are allowed any number of times depending upon the balance in the account or up to aparticular agreed amount and shall also be deemed to include other deposit accounts which areneither savings deposit nor term deposit.

“Customer” means any individual or sole proprietorship concern, who is/are permitted by RBI toopen/maintain Digital Current Account with Bank.

"IMPS Facility" means the Immediate Payment service Funds Transfer Facility through NPCIsystem.

"IMPS Regulations" means the circulars, guidelines, or regulations issued by the NPCI and anypractices and/or policies followed by the Bank from time to time.

"KYC Framework" means and includes Master Direction - Know your Customer (KYC) Directions,2016 issued by the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI"), read with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act,2002

"KYC Policy" means the board approved know your customer policy of the Bank.

"User” or “you” or “Merchant” refers to an individual or business entity (represented by anauthorized representative) that sells goods or services to customers and accepts payments inexchange for those goods or services inclusive of a marketplace

"NPCI" means National Payment Corporation of India.

"Regulations" means circulars, guidelines, or regulations and/or guidelines issued by the RBI, NPCIor any other regulators for the subject matter contained under these terms.

"RBI" means Reserve Bank of India.

"MPIN" shall mean the mobile banking PIN and/or password or other similar form factors generatedat the time of registration of the Merchant on the Digital Portal.

"Politically Exposed Person" or “PEP” refers to individuals who are or have been entrusted withprominent public functions by a foreign country, including the Heads of States/Governments, seniorpoliticians, senior government or judicial or military officers, senior executives of state-ownedcorporations and important political party officials.

"QR Code" refers to a quick response code which is a two-dimensional barcode that encodespayment information or transaction details and is issued to the User by the Bank for acceptingpayments from Customers.

"QR ID" refers to a unique seven (7) digit code related to a QR code that is issued to the User by theBank.

Eligibility criteria to avail the Digital CA Services:

The Bank may, in its sole discretion, impose any other qualification or eligibility criteria.

FATCA-CRS Declaration

Digital CA Services

In relation to Digital CA Services, the Bank will provide the following functionalities and services toyou on the Digital Portal.

During your registration, for the purpose of creating and enabling the use of Digital CA Services byyou, Bank may collect, process and share Information about you with third parties in accordancewith its KYC policy and Privacy Policy, for undertaking customer identification procedures andcustomer due diligence and verification, in accordance with KYC Framework ("KYC Process").

Digital Current Account will be opened in a single holding capacity (cannot be a joint account).

Customer Consents and Representations

The Customer consents to and provides the following representations and warranties:

Operational Conditions for Digital Current Account

Closure of Customer Account

Inoperative Account

Digital Current Accounts which have not been operated for over a period of 2 years will be categorisedas ‘inoperative’ account. However, Digital Current Account which are not operated for 10 years will be categorised as ‘unclaimed deposit Account’ as provided under RBI circular “InoperativeAccounts /Unclaimed Deposits in Banks- Revised Instructions dated Jan 01,2024”. A request foractivation of such inoperative Account has to be made by the Customer through the Digital Portalsubject to Bank’s internal policies and applicable laws.

Nomination

Banker's Lien and Set-Off

The Bank shall have the paramount right of set-off and lien, irrespective of any other lien orcharge, present as well as future, on all the deposits held by the Customer, whether in singlename or joint name(s), to the extent of all amounts payable by the Customer arising as aresult of any of Bank's services extended to and/or used by the Customer or as a result of anyother facilities that may be granted by the Bank to the Customer.

The above-mentioned rights of the Bank are without prejudice to the obligations of the Customer topay to the Bank when due all its indebtedness and without prejudice to any other rights that the Bankmay have against the Customer for recovery of outstanding from Customer to the Bank.

Auto Debit facility

You hereby agree and acknowledge that any mandate/standing instruction/auto debit/UPI autopayregistered by you on your Digital Current Account will be executed by the Bank as per applicable law.

The Bank will provide you with an online facility to withdraw any auto debit instruction at any point oftime in accordance with applicable laws following which no further recurring transactions shall beallowed for the withdrawn auto debit. The Bank will clearly communicate to you about the facility towithdraw auto debit at any point of time at the time of registration and later on whenever feltnecessary.

Customers shall be given an option to select the maximum amount allowed for auto debit facility asper applicable laws. Appropriate factor of authentication will be taken from the Customers whilesetting up the auto debit facility. Customers can pause, modify or cancel the auto debit facilityanytime and these would also entail undertaking appropriate factor of authentication.

Adding Beneficiary

Bank provides you with a facility of adding beneficiaries in your Digital Current Account inaccordance with applicable laws whereby you can register the beneficiaries by providing their bankaccount details. This would enable you to transfer money from your Digital Current Account to thebeneficiaries’ bank account.

Customers may manage beneficiaries for fund transfers, including adding, modifying, or deletingbeneficiary details, cooling off period through the Digital Portal, subject to applicable securityprotocols and verification procedures by the Bank.

Rewards

“Rewards” refer to the slice coins or any other incentive as a part of the slice reward programcredited to a customer’s account for completing eligible transactions, which may be redeemed orreversed according to the program rules and Bank’s discretion.

Eligibility and Reward Structure

Redemption of slice Coins

Disqualification and Suspension of Rewards

Reversal and Fortification Rights

Bank reserves the right to reverse or cancel any slice coins credited to a Customer’s Digtial CurrentAccount that remain unused, in whole or in part, at its sole discretion.

General Provisions

Debit Card Facility

The Customer may request the issuance of a debit card linked to the Digital Current Account bycontacting the Bank through the Digital Portal or by emailing [email protected].

The Most Important Terms and Conditions (MITC) for Debit Card can be found Here

Terms for IMPS and RTGS Facility

Cheque Book Facility

Governing law and disputes resolution

These Digital CA Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with Indian laws. If a disputearises between you and Bank, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost-effective means ofresolving the dispute quickly. In the event of a dispute, we encourage you to first contact the Bank at+91-8048329999 or [email protected] to try resolving your problem directly with us. If the parties areunable to resolve any dispute amicably within 30 days of the notice of such dispute, the dispute willbe subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Guwahati, Assam, India.

Auto Debit facility

The Bank shall not be liable if any transaction does not fructify or may not be completed or for anyfailure on part of the Bank to perform any of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions or thoseapplicable specifically to its services/facilities if performance is prevented, hindered or delayed by aForce Majeure event (defined below) and in such case its obligations shall be suspended for so longas the Force Majeure event continues.

"Force Majeure Event" means any event due to any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Bank,including without limitations, unavailability of any communication systems, breach, or virus in theprocesses or payment or delivery mechanism, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of god, civilcommotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government,computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage devices, computer crashes,malfunctioning in the computer terminal or the systems getting affected by any malicious,destructive or corrupting code or program, mechanical or technical errors/failures or power shutdown, faults or failures in telecommunication etc.

Indemnity and Limitation of Liability

Grievance Redressal

Miscellaneous