YODLEE FASTLINK TERMS OF USE
Updated June 15, 2023
These terms apply to FastLink users located in the United States. Please refer to https://solutions.yodlee.com/fastlink-terms/ukeu.html for our terms and conditions applicable to users located in the EU and UK.
Yodlee, Inc. (“Yodlee,” “we,” or “our”), an Envestnet company, provides access to this FastLink platform (“FastLink”) to users of applications provided by our clients. In particular, Yodlee has been engaged by the provider of the application that directed you to FastLink in this instance (the “ Application”) to retrieve data regarding certain financial accounts over which you have authority (your “Data ”) that you would like to be used by the Application. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern our access and processing of your Data and certain undertakings that you make and rights that you waive in connection with such access and processing of your Data.
These Terms provide that disputes arising between you and Yodlee will be resolved by binding arbitration, although you have a right to opt-out of that requirement. If you do not opt-out of that requirement as provided below, then to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AND YODLEE ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, AND YOU AGREE TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT to assert or defend your rights under this contract (except for matters that may be taken to small claims court). Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury. Please review Section V for more detail regarding your agreement to arbitrate any disputes with Yodlee arising under these Terms.
I. TERMS AND SCOPE
A. Acceptance of Terms. By completing the FastLink authorization process and clicking the Submit button, you acknowledge and agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to all of these Terms, do not use FastLink or click the Submit button. If you do not accept these Terms, you will not be entitled to use FastLink.
B. Our Relationship to You. FastLink is a service provided by Yodlee to the Application provider. The Application provider is our client, and while FastLink facilitates the Application provider’s provision of services to you, FastLink is not provided as a standalone service to you directly. The Application is not under our control, and we are not responsible for the Application’s use of your Data. When using or accessing the Application, you will be subject to terms and privacy policies posted by the Application provider.
C. Our Relationship to the Application Provider. Yodlee is a service provider to your Application provider. As such, we operate per the Application provider’s instructions governed by our contract with them. These instructions include requirements over the use and protection of the information about you that you or they provide to us or that we collect on their behalf per the terms and privacy notice posted by the Application provider.
D. Yodlee’s Use of Data. Yodlee does not sell your personal information, however such information is defined under applicable law. Unless stated otherwise in your Application provider’s privacy notice, as part of your accounts being linked Yodlee may use for commercial purposes as permitted by law, information derived or excerpted from your Data that does not contain your personal information or other information that can reasonably be used to determine your identity.
E. Service Limitations. Since FastLink is a service provided by Yodlee to the Application provider and not to you directly, Yodlee undertakes no obligation to you regarding the scope, quality, uptime, or functionality of FastLink (or the Application).
F. Termination. If we cease providing services to the Application provider or if the relationship between you and the Application provider is terminated, these Terms of Use also end. The effects of termination include:
1. You may no longer use Fastlink.
2. Neither you nor Application provider may access any Data in our possession. To find out what Data we may still hold after Termination, contact [email protected].
II. ACCOUNT CREDENTIALS AND ACCESSING YOUR DATA
A. Authorization to Access Your Data. By using FastLink, you authorize Yodlee to access and retrieve your Data from one or more third parties designated by you or by the Application provider on your behalf (“Financial Institutions”).
1. Using Financial Institution Portals to Access Data. Certain Financial Institutions require you to enable Data access for third-party applications through a portal controlled by the Financial Institution. For those Financial Institutions, we will direct you to the Financial Institution’s portal from FastLink and you must enable access to all Data you would like Yodlee to retrieve for the Application.
2. Using Credentials to Access Data. For other Financial Institutions, Yodlee will use information submitted by you through FastLink such as account user names, passwords, answers to security questions, and multi-factor authentication codes (collectively, “Credentials”) to access and retrieve your Data from the Financial Institution.
3. Appointment as Agent. For either of the foregoing purposes, you hereby grant Yodlee a limited power of attorney, and you hereby appoint Yodlee as your true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for you and in your name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to access third party sites (using your Credentials, when applicable), retrieve Data, provide your Data to the Application provider, and use your Data, all as described herein, with the full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection with such activities, as fully to all intents and purposes as you might or could do in person. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WHEN YODLEE IS ACCESSING AND RETRIEVING YOUR DATA FROM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, YODLEE IS ACTING AS YOUR AGENT, AND NOT AS A SERVICE PROVIDER OR OTHERWISE ON BEHALF OF THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION. You agree that: Financial Institutions shall be entitled to rely on the foregoing authorization, agency and power of attorney granted by you.
B. Your Authority. By using FastLink to enable the transfer of any Data to or from any financial account, you represent, warrant, and agree that:(i) such transfers are permitted under applicable law;(ii) that you are of legal age and have the authority to transfer that Data to or from the applicable financial account and to authorize the use and transmission of that Data in accordance with these Terms; and (iii) that the Application Provider has provided to you reasonable access to Application Provider’s privacy notice and has made disclosures to you regarding the Application’s use of your personal information, and that such disclosures are satisfactory and adequate for you to provide your informed consent regarding the same.
C. Role of Financial Institutions. FastLink is not endorsed or sponsored by any Financial Institutions. You agree that Yodlee assumes no responsibility and shall incur no liability with respect to the acts, omissions, or determinations of any Financial Institutions. You acknowledge and agree that Yodlee may maintain your Data and Credentials on separate systems than those of Financial Institutions.
III. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
A. DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT YODLEE, THE APPLICATION PROVIDER, THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, AND THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS OF ALL OF THE FOREGOING (COLLECTIVELY, “PROTECTED PARTIES”) WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY HARMS (WHICH LAWYERS AND COURTS OFTEN CALL DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, OPPORTUNITY, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES) RESULTING FROM: (I) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE FASTLINK; (II) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR DATA OR CREDENTIALS; (III) THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, UNAUTHORIZED USE, PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE APPLICATION; (IV) ANY FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS ALLEGEDLY RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM YOUR USE OF FASTLINK OR YODLEE’S RECEIPT OR USE OF YOUR CREDENTIALS OR ACCESS OR RETRIEVAL OF YOUR DATA; OR (V) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO FASTLINK. THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY APPLIES EVEN IF THE PROTECTED PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH HARMS.
B. LIABILITY CAP. WITHOUT LIMITING THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH, THE PROTECTED PARTIES’ LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO FASTLINK OR YODLEE’S RECEIPT OR USE OF YOUR CREDENTIALS OR PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA WILL NOT IN ANY EVENT EXCEED $1,000.00, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT SET FORTH IN SECTION V BELOW.
C. EXCLUSIONS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
IV. DISCLAIMER
A. NO Warranties. YODLEE, THE APPLICATION PROVIDER, AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND-WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE-TO YOU REGRADING FASTLINK, THE DATA OBTAINED THROUGH FASTLINK, THE APPLICATION, OR THE RESULTS OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH YOUR USE OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING.
B. EXCLUSIONS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTIES TO BE DISCLAIMED. ACCORDINGLY, THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN ALL RESPECTS.
V. DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND ARBITRATION
A. Generally. In the interest of resolving disputes between you and Yodlee in the most expedient and cost effective manner, you and Yodlee agree that every dispute arising in connection with these Terms will be resolved by binding arbitration, except as otherwise provided in this Section V. Arbitration is less formal than a lawsuit in court. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, may allow for more limited discovery than in court, and can be subject to very limited review by courts. Arbitrators can award the same damages and relief that a court can award. This agreement to arbitrate disputes includes all claims arising out of or relating to any aspect of these Terms, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether a claim arises during or after the termination of these Terms. The arbitrator shall decide all issues regarding the arbitrability of a dispute relating to Agreement, including but not limited to the scope of matters to be arbitrated and the waiver or unconscionability of arbitration. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND YODLEE ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
B. Exceptions. Despite the provisions of Section V.A, nothing in these Terms will be deemed to waive, preclude, or otherwise limit the right of either party to: (a) bring an individual action in small claims court; (b) pursue an enforcement action through the applicable federal, state, or local agency if that action is available; (c) seek injunctive relief in a court of law; or (d) to file suit in a court of law to address an intellectual property infringement claim.
C. Arbitrator. Any arbitration between you and Yodlee will be settled under the Federal Arbitration Act, and governed by the Consumer Arbitration Rules (collectively, “AAA Rules”) of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), as modified by these Terms, and will be administered by the AAA. The AAA Rules and filing forms are available online at www.adr.org, by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879, or by contacting Yodlee.
D. Notice; Process. A party who intends to seek arbitration must first send a written notice of the dispute to the other party by certified U.S. Mail or by Federal Express (signature required) or, only if such other party has not provided a current physical address, then by electronic mail (“Notice”). Yodlee’s address for Notice is: Yodlee, Inc., 621 Hillsborough Street, 10th Floor, Raleigh, NC 27603. The Notice must: (a) describe the nature and basis of the claim or dispute; and (b) set forth the specific relief sought (“Demand”). The parties will make good faith efforts to resolve the claim directly, but if the parties do not reach an agreement to do so within 30 days after the Notice is received, you or Yodlee may commence an arbitration proceeding. During the arbitration, the amount of any settlement offer made by you or Yodlee must not be disclosed to the arbitrator until after the arbitrator makes a final decision and award, if any. If the dispute is finally resolved through arbitration in your favor, Yodlee will pay you the highest of the following: (i) the amount awarded by the arbitrator, if any; (ii) the last written settlement amount offered by Yodlee in settlement of the dispute prior to the arbitrator’s award; or (iii) $1,000.
E. Fees. If you commence arbitration in accordance with these Terms, Yodlee will reimburse you for your payment of the filing fee, unless your claim is for more than $10,000, in which case the payment of any fees will be decided by the AAA Rules. Any arbitration hearing will take place at a location to be agreed upon in the Northern District of, California, but if the claim is for $10,000 or less, you may choose whether the arbitration will be conducted: (a) solely on the basis of documents submitted to the arbitrator; (b) through a non-appearance based telephone hearing; or (c) by an in-person hearing as established by the AAA Rules in the county (or parish) of your billing address. If the arbitrator finds that either the substance of your claim or the relief sought in the Demand is frivolous or brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)), then the payment of all fees will be governed by the AAA Rules. In that case, you agree to reimburse Yodlee for all monies previously disbursed by it that are otherwise your obligation to pay under the AAA Rules. Regardless of the manner in which the arbitration is conducted, the arbitrator must issue a reasoned written decision sufficient to explain the essential findings and conclusions on which the decision and award, if any, are based. The arbitrator may make rulings and resolve disputes as to the payment and reimbursement of fees or expenses at any time during the proceeding and upon request from either party made within 14 days of the arbitrator’s ruling on the merits.
F. No Class Actions. YOU AND YODLEE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, unless both you and Yodlee agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.
G. Modifications to this Arbitration Provision. If Yodlee makes any future change to this arbitration provision, other than a change to Yodlee’s address for Notice, you may reject the change by sending us written notice within 30 days of the change to Yodlee’s address for Notice. In that case, Yodlee may immediately terminate these Terms and this arbitration provision, as in effect immediately prior to the changes you rejected, will survive.
H. Enforceability. If one or more provisions in this Section V are found to be invalid or unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Section V and this Agreement generally will not be impaired thereby.