Electonic Funds Transfers - Your Rights and Responsibilities

Indicated below are types of Electronic Fund Transfers we are capable of handling, some of which may not apply to your account. Please read this disclosure carefully because it tells you your rights and obligations for the transactions listed. You should keep this notice for future reference.

Electronic Funds Transfers Initiated By Third Parties. You may authorize a third party to initiate electronic fund transfers between your account and the third party's account. These transfers to make or receive payment may be one-time occurrences or may recur as directed by you. These transfers may use the Automated Clearing House (ACH) or other payments network. Your authorization to the third party to make these transfers can occur in a number of ways. For example, your authorization to convert a check or draft to an electronic fund transfer or to electronically pay a returned check or draft charge can occur when a merchant provides you with notice and you go forward with the transaction (typically, at the point of purchase, a merchant will post a sign and print the notice on a receipt). In all cases, these third party transfers will require you to provide the third party with your account number and credit union information. This information can be found on your check or draft as well as on a deposit or withdrawal slip. Thus, you should only provide your credit union and account information (whether over the phone, the Internet, or via some other method) to trusted third parties whom you have authorized to initiate these electronic fund transfers. Examples of these transfers include, but are not limited to:

  • Preauthorized credits. You may make arrangements for certain direct deposits to be accepted into your checking, share savings, or money market account(s).
  • Preauthorized payments. You may make arrangements to pay certain recurring bills from your checking or share savings account(s).
  • Electronic check or draft conversion. You may authorize a merchant or other payee to make a one-time electronic payment from your checking or share draft account using information from your check or draft to pay for purchases or pay bills.
  • Electronic returned check or draft charge. You may authorize a merchant or other payee to initiate an electronic funds transfer to collect a charge in the event a check or draft is returned for insufficient funds.

Please also see Limitations on frequency of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to savings accounts.

Call 24 Telephone Transfers - types of transfers - You may access your account by telephone 24 hours a day at (617) 496-2002 using your personal identification number, a touch tone phone, and your account numbers, to:

  • transfer funds from checking or share savings to checking or share savings
  • transfer funds from line of credit to checking or share savings
  • make payments from checking or share savings to loan accounts with us
  • get information about:
    • the account balance of checking or share savings accounts
    • the last ten deposits to checking or share savings accounts
    • the last ten withdrawals from checking or share savings accounts

Please also see Limitations on frequency of transfers section regarding limitations that apply to telephone transfers.

Your Option to Limit Cash Withdrawals - In addition to dollar amount limitations for withdrawals using your ATM card or Debit MastercardTM and/or code that we may establish, you have the option to limit the amount of cash that can be withdrawn by your ATM card or Debit MastercardTM and/or code to .00 per day or some other amount acceptable to us.

ATM Transfers - types of transfers and dollar limitations - You may access your account(s) by ATM using your ATM card and personal identification number or Debit MastercardTM and personal