Order In Which Checks and Other Items. Are Paid. In general, we pay checks and other transactions in the order in which they are presented to us for payment, regardless of when you issued or authorized them. Insufficient balances on your account may result from 1) checks, 2) automated clearing house (ACH) debits such as online xxxx payment transactions, 3) payments authorized by an owner or other withdrawal requests, 4) items deposited and returned unpaid by the paying institution, and 5) imposition of service charges. Checks and ACH debits may be presented to us in batches or data files, and are paid when we process the data file. Checks in the same data file may be processed in any order we deem appropriate. Checks presented for payment at one of our branches are processed at the time of payment. Debit card transactions are processed when they are transmitted to us, which may occur at the time of the transaction or up to several days later. The merchant or its processor determines when the transaction will be transmitted to us. When a merchant obtains authorization for a debit card transaction, we place a temporary hold against the funds in the account for the amount of the authorized transaction. In some cases, such as restaurants, gas stations, or car rental transactions, there may be a hold for an initially authorized amount, but the transaction is submitted at a different amount. You should be certain there are enough funds in your account at all times to pay checks or other transactions you authorize, or those checks or transactions will be handled according to the overdraft and insufficient funds terms of this Agreement, or paid under one of our check overdraft services if applicable. You agree that we may change these practices at any time without prior notice to you to address data processing constraints, changes in law, regulation, clearing house rules or business concerns.
