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Cardholder account information, and other personal information, as well as Card imprints (such as sales drafts
and credit records, auto rental agreements, and carbons) in an area limited to selected personnel and, prior to
discarding any such information, destroy it in a manner that renders the data unreadable. Merchant further
warrants and agrees that in the event of its failure, including bankruptcy, insolvency, or other suspension of
business operations, it will not sell, transfer or disclose any materials that contain Cardholder account
numbers, personal information, or Transaction information to third parties, and shall return the information to
Bank and provide acceptable proof of destruction to Bank.
22. Taxes. Each party hereto shall report its income and pay its own taxes to any applicable jurisdiction. If
either Bank or ISO is required to pay any taxes, interests, fines or penalties owed by Merchant, said amount
shall become immediately due and payable by Merchant to Bank or ISO. If excise, sale or use taxes are
imposed on Transactions, Merchant shall be responsible for the collection and payment thereof. Merchant
shall not add any tax to any Transaction unless Applicable Law expressly provides that Merchant is permitted
to impose a tax, and any such tax amount, if so allowed, shall be included in the Transaction amount and not
collected separately. Bank or ISO shall be entitled to recover from Merchant any of said taxes paid by it on
behalf of Merchant immediately after payment.
23. Limitation of Liability. In addition to all other limitations on the liability of Bank and ISO contained in this
Agreement, neither Bank nor ISO shall be liable to Merchant or Merchant’s customers or any other person for
any of the following:
(a) Any loss or liability resulting from the denial of credit to any person or Merchant’s retention of any Card or
any attempt to do so;
(b) Any loss caused by a Transaction downgrade resulting from defective or faulty Equipment, even if such
Equipment is owned by Bank or ISO;
(c) The unavailability of Services caused by the termination of contracts with computer hardware vendors,
processors or installers, whether terminated by Bank, ISO or any other
person for any reason; or
(d) Interruption or termination of any Services caused by any reason except for failure of ISO to repair or
replace Equipment at Merchant’s expense (in which case, any resulting liability shall be for the sole account of
ISO). At no time will ISO’s liability exceed the amount of fees collected or reasonably expected to be collected
from Merchant for this delay period.
NEITHER BANK NOR ISO SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES TO MERCHANT OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT
OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE SERVICES TO BE PERFORMED BY BANK OR ISO PURSUANT TO THIS
AGREEMENT. MERCHANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT BANK HAS PROVIDED NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, WRITTEN OR ORAL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF