Article Two/ DEFINITIONS:
The following definitions shall apply in this agreement and any amendment/s that may be applied upon this agreement from time to time, which literally define terminologies' meanings used under this agreement, and cannot be interpreted or construed in any other way, unless otherwise oppositely determined:
“ABK-Egypt” Means Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait - Egypt, successors, and assignees, also referred to in this agreement as “the Bank”.
“Customer” Means the Individual or Company who holds account(s) or credit card(s) with ABK-Egypt or will initiate with opening an account or a credit card with the Bank and signs the account opening form and/or credit card application form and the agreement and any other document(s) the Bank will deem necessary from time to time for accessing and using the Online Banking system.
“Party” Means any of ABK-Egypt and/or the customer separately.
“Parties” Means ABK-Egypt and customer jointly.
“User” Means the Customer and/or the Authorised User.
"Authorised User” Means the authorised person(s) by the Customer to use any of the services offered by the Online Banking system.
“Service Registration” Means the process followed by:
a) The Individual customer, to subscribe for the first time to the Online Banking system from their computer or other electronic device by use of their Debit or Credit Card and its Personal Identification Number (PIN) and other additional Security Codes as ABK-Egypt will deem appropriate from time to time. The detailed instructions for this process will be published on the Bank's website for customer to be guided accordingly.
b) ABK-Egypt, to register Individual customers and Companies to the Online Banking system, as per the Bank's internal operating procedures.
“Service Maintenance” means the maintenance activities on a registered User's Online Banking system access, including but not limited to service deactivation and reactivation, change of password, change of security questions, change of linked accounts and banking products and access rights on them, change of limits, linking of the OTP device to the User, and other as the Bank may deem appropriate from time to time, to be performed:
a) By the Individual customer, by use of their Debit or Credit card and its PIN and other additional Security Codes as ABK-Egypt deems necessary with a limited scope as the Bank allows from time to time (currently only change of password and security questions). The detailed instructions for these processes will be published on the Bank's website for customer to be guided accordingly.
b) By ABK-Egypt, for registered Individual customers and Companies with full scope, as per the Bank's internal operating procedures.
“User ID” Means the identification name-code created during the Service Registration to be used by the User together with the Password and Security Question in order to gain access to the Online Banking system and/or together with the Security Code to perform various types of additional transactions or services requiring higher level authentication through the Online Banking system. It is clarified that the same User ID may, if ABK-Egypt so determines, be used by the User for gaining access and/or enabling the customer to perform Transactions for any other services offered or to be offered in the future by ABK-Egypt through any other electronic and/or telephone and/or devices. It is further clarified that in the event that the Corporate Authorised User has or will open in the future personal account(s) or credit card(s) with the Bank, then the User ID for his personal banking relationship will be different than the User ID issued to him for the Corporate banking relationship.
“The Agreement” Means the terms and conditions mentioned in this agreement and its amendments from time to time and/or any instructions, updates of instructions, terms of usage published on the Online Banking system and/or ABK-Egypt's website.
“Accounts” Means the accounts and other banking products and debit cards and credit cards held with ABK-Egypt and/or to be held with ABK-Egypt in the name of the Customer which pursuant to an application and/or to a notification by the Customer to ABK-Egypt made from time to time, shall be connected through the international network known as “Internet” and/or ATMs and/or telephone lines and/or radio signals and/or television signals and/or through other electronic and/or other connections as shall be determined or made available to its customers by the Bank from time to time through the Online Banking system, for any account on which the Online Banking system is available.
“Internet” Means the International Information Network.
“Computer” Means the personal computer of the User which he uses to perform service registration and service maintenance (Individual customers only) and to access the Online Banking system through the Internet, or through any other means of electronic connectivity, as shall be determined by ABK from time to time.
“Devices” Means among others laptops, computer tablets, mobile phones, smart phones, wearable devices (watches, fitness trackers), connected car system devices and any other similar devices owned by the User, that may be connected to the internet or any other means of electronic connectivity and may be used by the User to perform service registration and maintenance (Individual customers only) and to access the Online Banking system through the Internet, or through any other means of electronic connectivity, as shall be determined by ABK-Egypt from time to time.
“Online Banking system” Means the services provided or which may be provided, from time to time, by ABK-Egypt to the User for the execution of financial and/or banking and other Transactions and/or orders and/or instructions, through computer and/or other devices through the Internet or through other electronic connections, through which access is or may be given to the services, as shall be determined by the Bank from time to time, which may include inter-alia and without prejudice to the generality of the above transfer of funds to and from an own/third party account within ABK-Egypt, transfer of funds to and from an account locally and/or internationally and/or electronic transfer of records/files and/or payments of bills and/or orders for chequebooks and/or deposit slips and statements of account and/or providing information for exchange rates and/or opening of Standing Orders and/or card inquiries and/or stop payment of cheques and/or information relating to services and/or facilities provided by the Bank and/or applications for opening accounts with/without limit and/or loans and/or issue of prepaid cards (non-plastic cards) and applications for obtaining facilities from ABK-Egypt.
“Password” Means the secret code that will be used by the User to be identified and gain access to the Online Banking system, which shall be deemed as User's authorized signature with the Bank. The password can be created:
a. By the customer (Individual customers only) during service registration or maintenance, as per specific security guidelines.
b. Randomly generated by the system (for Individual and Corporate customers) during the Service Registration and subsequent maintenance performed by the Bank and delivered to the User in a sealed secure envelope. In this case, the User will be forced to change the randomly system-generated password to one of his choices (as per specific security guidelines) upon his first login to the Online Banking system after password issuance.
“Site Key Image and Phrase” Means the picture and its describing word or phrase that the Individual customers will select during their service registration, which are used to further increase the security of Online Banking system as a means for customers to identify the genuine site of ABK-Egypt Online Banking.
“Security Questions and Answers” Means the mandatory questions and their answers that the Individual customers must set up during their service registration, which are used to further increase the security of Online Banking system and to further authenticate the User's identity upon login to Online Banking system.
“Security Code or One Time Password (OTP)” Means the optional, unique, time-sensitive one-time security password which may be used along with the User ID and Password, in order to gain access to the Online Banking systemand/or enable the customer to use all advanced system features requiring higher level authentication. This OTP may be generated by the User either through the OTP hardware Generator or software Application or it may be sent by the Bank as an SMS message to a designated Mobile Phone Number at the request of the User.
“OTP Generator or Token” Means the hardware device given to the User at his request or the software mobile application downloaded by the User as per agreement with the Bank, and subject to remuneration as determined by the Bank from time to time, through which the User may obtain a OTP in order to gain access to the Online Banking system and/or to use all advanced system features requiring higher level authentication.
“Designated Mobile Phone Number” Means the number of the mobile phone designated by the User and notified to ABK-Egypt and set as the receiver for an SMS message carrying the OTP.
“SMS” Means short message service.
“Instruction” Means any request and/or order to ABK from the customer managed though usage of the Online Banking system.
"Transactions" Means any financial and/or banking and/or other transactions whether Online and/or Offline which the customer may carry out through the Online Banking system.
“Funds Transfer through file” Means funds transfer through an electronic file of predetermined format containing multiple instructions for funds transfer that the Authorized User who has so been authorized may send to ABK-Egypt via the Online Banking system.
“Working Day” Means official working days that banks operate in Egypt, which begins from Sunday till Thursday of every week except official vacation(s).