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Privacy Policy
This website https://www.FlexiLoans.com (“Website”) and Flexiloans Mobile App (Android) is available on Google playstore. “FlexiLoans” is owned and operated by Epimoney Private Limited (“FlexiLoans/ We/ Us” which expression shall mean and include its affiliates, successors and permitted assigns), having its registered office at No.119, 2nd Floor, Greenways Towers, St. Mary's Road, Abhiramapuram, Chennai – 600 018 and its Corporate address at One World Center, Indiabulls Financial Center Tower-2, 7th Floor, South Annexe, 841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Saidham Nagar, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013. The Website is an online lending platform for users to avail financial services. FlexiLoans is committed in protecting and respecting your privacy.
SCOPE
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder. This Privacy Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature. This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and FlexiLoans. The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the same, by clicking on the “I Accept” checkbox available at https://loans.flexiloans.com/ and will govern the relationship between you and FlexiLoans for your use of the Website. By clicking on the “I Accept” checkbox, you also authorize us to contact you if you are registered with DND/NDNC registry. This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect from you, how We collect this information (directly or through third parties or which is automatically generated, when you interact with our Website and our mobile application (Mobile App)) and what We do with it after We collect it.
GENERAL DEFINITIONS
Reference to “you” or “your” in this Privacy Policy refers to any natural person (including the employees of FlexiLoans) who provides to FlexiLoans any information referred in Schedule 1 of this document or any user(s) of FlexiLoans Website or business applications whether or not, you avail the Services offered by FlexiLoans. “Act” shall mean the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules thereunder as amended from time to time. “Information” shall mean and include Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Data or Information as may be collected by FlexiLoans. “Personal Information” shall have the same meaning as under Rule 2 (i) of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time. For ease of reference Rule 2 (i) of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 is re-produced under Schedule 1. “Rules” shall mean the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time. “Registered User” shall mean such user whose registration is accepted by FlexiLoans. “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” shall mean and include information under Rule 3 of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time. For ease of reference Rule 3 of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 is re-produced under Schedule 1. “Services” for the purpose of this Privacy Policy shall mean any person who by way of registration has sought or in any manner has requested the services of FlexiLoans. All words and expressions used and not defined in this document but defined in the Act or the Rules shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act or the Rules. FlexiLoans is fully committed to respecting your privacy and shall ensure that your Information is safe. This Privacy Policy sets out the practices adopted in respect of Information, including the types of Information that is collected, how the Information is collected, how the Information is used, how long the Information is retained and with whom it is shared. This Privacy Policy is published in compliance with the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder that require publishing the Privacy Policy on FlexiLoans Website. FlexiLoans urges you to read this Privacy Policy carefully before you use or opt to access any services of FlexiLoans or decide to part with any Personal Information including the information listed under Schedule
USER CONSENT
By clicking on the “I Accept” checkbox, you expressly consent and confirm to FlexiLoans collecting, maintaining, using, processing and disclosing your Sensitive Personal Data or Information and other Information in accordance with the terms set out in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy in its entirety, you must not use this Website or products and/or services provided on it. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us atconnect@flexiloans.in
PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
At FlexiLoans, we may ask for and use your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information and are committed to keeping this Information secure. In order to maintain the confidentiality of your Information, we maintain the following privacy principles including but not limited to the following: We only collect Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information that is relevant and is required to gauge your financial abilities and to conduct our business. We use your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information to provide you with better customer services and products. We may pass your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information to our affiliates or any agent or third-party service provider unless prohibited by laws and regulations. We will not disclose your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information to any external organization unless we have your consent or are required by laws and regulations. We may disclose your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information required by any regulatory agencies, but we will only do so under proper authority. We maintain strict security systems designed to prevent unauthorized access to your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information by anyone, including our staff. This Privacy Policy talks about why we ask for Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information and how we keep it secure. We request you to review our Privacy Policy from time to time because your use of our products and services implies your acceptance of the prevailing Privacy Policy, including any amendments thereto.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
During your use of the Website and Mobile App, we will collect such Information from you when you provide to us including but not limited to the below mentioned: Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information that you provide to us while interacting with us such as your name, gender, date of birth, mobile number, password, email address, mailing address, telephone number, aadhar card details, pan number ,tan no., sales tax details, service tax details, bank account details, business financials, passport number, driving license number, purpose of loan, sources of your income and family income, demographic information like residential address and office address, pay slips, your family details, information relating to income and expenses obtained through bank SMS scraping and through integration with such service providers, credit related information that is collected from other sources like the credit bureau, information collected through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media accounts of the Users which have been linked to the account on the Website, information that you provide when you write directly to us (including by e-mail) or provide us over telephone, any other information that FlexiLoans is required to collect as per specific mandate from any bank or as a requirement under applicable law and other relevant financial information. You will at all times have the option of not providing Flexiloans with Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information that Flexiloans seeks to collect. Even after you have provided Flexiloans with any Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information, you will have the option to withdraw the consent given earlier by writing Us at myaccount@flexiloans.com. Further, you have the right to request for access to your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information and to review and amend such Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information. In such cases, Flexiloans will have the right to not provide or discontinue the provision of any service that is linked with such Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information. We also collect Non-Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information from you, such as your browser type, the URL of the previous website you visited, information about the pages viewed on website, how you navigate through the website and interact with webpages etc., your ISP, operating system types, clickstream patterns, and your Internet protocol (IP) Address (“Non-Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information”). Non-Sensitive Personal Data or Information cannot be easily used to personally identify you. We also contract with several online partners to help manage, monitor and optimize our Website and services and to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising, communications and how visitors use the Website. To do this, we may use web beacons and cookies. In addition to collecting information via our Website and Mobile App, we may also conduct a site visit to collect Information and obtain Information and external data used by lenders to process applications and complete and manage transactions, e.g., from credit reporting agencies and other vendors, as well as from social media.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY
There is certain Information that we collect automatically as the result of your use of the Website, or through the use of web analytics services. This Information includes but is not limited to: The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the device from which you access the Website (this can sometimes be used to derive the country or city from which you are accessing the Website). The specific actions that you take on the Website, including the pages that you visit, connecting your Facebook or Google+ account. The time, frequency and duration of your visits to the Website. Your browser type and operating system. The nature of the device from which you are accessing the Website, for example, whether you are accessing the Website from a personal computer or from a mobile device. A one-time access may be taken for camera, microphone, location or such other information as may be necessary for the purpose of onboarding with Us or as may be required pursuant to any regulatory or statutory requirement.
INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
FlexiLoans allows you to sign up and log in using your Facebook account. If you sign up using Facebook, Facebook will ask your permission to share certain information from your Facebook account with FlexiLoans. This includes your first name, last name, email address in order for us to verify your identity and gender, general location, a link to your Facebook profile, your time zone, birthday, home town, education history, work history, tagged places, profile picture, relationship status, your “likes” and your list of friends. This Information is collected by Facebook and is provided to us under the terms of Facebook’s privacy policy. You can control the Information that we receive from Facebook using the privacy settings in your Facebook account.
HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION
Any Information shared by you is used by us and/or our authorized third parties/service partners/lending partners (https://flexiloans.com/loan/partners) of FlexiLoans to support your interaction with us, to offer you services in the best possible manner and to contact you again about other services and products that we offer and/or the services and products offered by our authorised third parties/ service partners/ lending partners. After submitting your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information to FlexiLoans, by clicking on the ‘I Accept’ checkbox, you expressly acknowledge and consent to FlexiLoans to use such information and to process the same in a manner deemed fit by FlexiLoans. We may use this Information provided by you in the following ways but not limited to:
(a) To capture, save, compile and analyse the Information required to perform credit and risk scoring models and establish identity and assess applications.
(b)To design and improve the products and services, customer relationship management processes to operate the business.
(c) To monitor metrics such as total number of views, visitors, traffic and demographic patterns.
(d) To carry out contractual obligations entered into between FlexiLoans and you.
(e) To conform to the legal requirements, compliance/reporting to administrative and judicial authorities, as may be required and to comply with regulatory guidelines.
(f) To protect and defend the rights or property of the website owners of FlexiLoans, or your rights. To communicate with you to send order confirmations, respond to customer service requests, send marketing communications, and send account update notifications.
(g) To share the Information with multiple financial institutions/ lending partners of FlexiLoans/ authorised third parties/ service partners and other lenders for customization of offers and provision of services by FlexiLoans and/or services and products offered by authorised third parties/ service partners/ its lending partners. To undertake research, troubleshooting, fraud and risk management and prevention of other criminal activity. To post and review your comments on our blog.
(h) To manage your employment and related compliances, process payroll and other compensations, managing employee benefits, tracking attendance, etc. We may also collect and use this Information in other ways permitted by law. We will take utmost care to ensure that your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information is not shared with the public and that your transactions on the Website are confidential. If we use any third parties for any of these transactions, we will also make sure that confidentiality is maintained. We may also provide Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information about our customers to other organizations. We will take reasonable care that any Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information we disclose to them is only used for the specific task we ask them to perform.
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND ONLINE PARTNERS
We may contract with various third parties who help us provide, maintain and improve the website and the FlexiLoans services. We do not sell your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information to third parties. FlexiLoans guarantees that it is going to keep all Information confidential except in the following cases:
To any agent or third-party service provider who provides administrative, analytics, telecommunications, computer, payment or other services to FlexiLoans in connection with the operation of its business. To any other person under a duty of confidentiality to FlexiLoans including an affiliate or group company of FlexiLoans which has undertaken to keep such Information confidential;
To credit reference agencies, and, in the event of default, to debt collection agencies;
To any person to whom FlexiLoans is under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirements of any law binding on FlexiLoans or any of its branches. To any actual or proposed assignee of FlexiLoans or participant or sub-participant or transferee of FlexiLoans’ rights in respect of the customer. To governmental and other statutory bodies who have appropriate authorization to access the same for any specific legal purposes.
To comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply the Terms of Use (displayed on the Website), or to protect the rights, property or safety of FlexiLoans, its Users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies/agencies that work for fraud prevention and credit reference.
FlexiLoans discloses your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information to companies that provide products and services to Us in relation to employee management, such as payroll and benefits providers, pension providers, human resources service providers, recruitment agencies, compliance consultants, etc.
ACCESS TO YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT
Where you allow FlexiLoans to fetch your bank statements from your Gmail account, FlexiLoans will access your Gmail account through using https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly API in Mobile App or Web Portal and extract your bank statements of past six months for the purpose of determining your loan eligibility. No other information or emails from your Gmail account will be read, opened, accessed or viewed. All such bank statements extracted by FlexiLoans shall be kept in our records till such time as maybe required for Loan assessment and for adhering with rules/regulations of Reserve Bank of India.
COLLECTION OF FINANCIAL SMS INFORMATION
Our FlexiLoans Mobile Applications collect and monitor only financial SMS sent by alphanumeric senders from your inbox which helps us in identifying the various bank accounts that you may be holding, cash flow patterns, description and amount of the transactions undertaken by you as a user to help us perform a credit risk assessment which enables us to determine your risk profile and to provide you with the appropriate credit analysis and offers. This process will enable you to take financial facilities from the regulated financial entities available on the Website. This financial SMS data also includes your historical data. While using the application, it periodically sends the financial SMS information to our affiliate server and to us.
COLLECTION OF FINANCIAL SMS INFORMATION
As a part of our Mobile Application loan journey, we require references from the Loan applicant. In this regard, during filing the form on our application, we collect and monitor your Information such as contact information which includes name, phone number, account type, contact last modified, favorites and other optional data like relationship and structural address to enable you to autofill the data during the loan application process. This Information is required for the purposes of risk analysis, enabling us to detect credible references, assess your risk profile and to determine your loan eligibility.
COOKIES
Cookies are small bits of information that are automatically stored on a person’s web browser in his computer that can be retrieved by this Website. Cookies allow web servers to recognize your computer each time you return to our Website including the date and time of visits, page view history, time spent at our website, and the websites visited just before and just after our website, verify your registration or password information (in case of a Registered User) during a particular session so that you do not have to input your password multiple times as you navigate the site and suggest products or services that may interest you. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual. We might also use other technology to track how you interact with our portal and employ some third-party agencies to use the data on our behalf. We might also use this information to display advertising from third party companies. Should you wish to disable these cookies you may do so by changing the setting on your browser. Most browsers will let you decline cookies but if you choose to do this it might affect service on some parts of our Website.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We store and process your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information on reputed web service cloud servers. We protect your Information using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption using SSL, and information access authorization controls.
However, you understand and accept that there’s no guarantee that data transmission over the Internet will be completely secure and that any information that you transmit to us is at your own risk. We assume no liability for any disclosure of your Information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access to our Website and databases or other acts of third parties or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control and you shall not be entitled to hold FlexiLoans responsible for any breach of security.
SECURITY ASSURANCE
Both you and FlexiLoans play an important role in protecting against online fraud. You should be careful that your bank account details and other related information, including your User ID(s) and/or passwords/personal identification numbers (PIN) are not compromised by ensuring that you do not knowingly or accidentally share, provide or facilitate unauthorized use of it. Please do not share your User ID and/or password or allow access or use of it by others. We endeavor to put in place high standards of security to protect your interests.
You should safeguard your unique User ID(s) and Passwords/PINs by keeping it secret and confidential. Kindly never write them down or share these details with anyone. Except in the course of a transaction, FlexiLoans will never ask you for your passwords/PINs, in order to ensure that you are the only person who knows this information. When choosing your unique User ID and password for the first time, do not create it using easily identifiable information such as your birthday, telephone number or a recognizable part of your name. If you think your User ID and/or passwords/PINs have been disclosed to the third party is lost or stolen and unauthorized transactions may have been conducted, you are responsible to inform us immediately.
USE OF THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
You may be able to access third party websites directly from our FlexiLoans website. With this Privacy Policy, we are only addressing the disclosure and use of data collected by us. If you visit any other websites through the links on the FlexiLoans website, you should properly review the privacy policies of each of those websites. Their data collection practices and their policies might be different and FlexiLoans does not have control over any of their policies and FlexiLoans disclaims all responsibility or liability with respect to these policies or the websites. If it so happens that FlexiLoans is part of a merger, acquisition or amalgamation, your data might be part of the deal with that third party and will be transferred to them.
REFERRALS
If you choose to provide a few referrals to introduce FlexiLoans and/or its Website to any other person/ entity, we may ask you to provide such person/ entity’s name and email address, provided you have obtained consent for disclosing such personal information about the person / entity you refer to us. FlexiLoans will automatically send such person/ entity an email inviting it or to visit the FlexiLoans website. FlexiLoans stores this information for the purpose of sending this email and keeping a record of the number of persons / entities so referred by the Users and may send additional emails to the said person / entity in connection with services offered by FlexiLoans. Such person/ entity may contact FlexiLoans at connect@flexiloans.in to request that this information be removed from FlexiLoans’ database.
TESTIMONIALS
We may display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our Website in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us by email at myaccount@flexiloans.com
RETENTION OF DATA
We may retain the Information about you as long as your User account is active or as needed to provide services to you. If you wish to cancel your account or request that FlexiLoans no longer use your Information to provide services, you may contact FlexiLoans at myaccount@flexiloans.com. Although FlexiLoans may have to retain and use your Information if necessary to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce its agreements. If you are no longer a customer/borrower of FlexiLoans, please note that We will not retain your Sensitive Personal Data or Information / Personal Information longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was obtained, unless it is required to be retained as part of a statutorily mandated obligation.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
In the event FlexiLoans modifies this Privacy Policy, the same will be updated on the Website. In case of any material changes to the Privacy Policy, you will be notified by email (sent to the email address specified in the Users’ mail account) or by means of a notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. The Users are encouraged to periodically review this page for the latest information on its privacy practices.
SEVERABILITY
FlexiLoans has made every effort to ensure that this Privacy Policy adheres with the applicable laws. The invalidity or unenforceability of any part of this Privacy Policy shall not prejudice or affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Privacy Policy.
SECURITY
FlexiLoans understand that storing data in a secure manner is important. We store Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information using industry standard, reasonable and technically feasible, physical, technical and administrative safeguards against foreseeable risks, such as unauthorized access. Any transactions that take place on the Website are processed through our secure server in order to make every reasonable effort to ensure that your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information is protected.
While FlexiLoans strives to protect your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information, it cannot ensure or guarantee that the Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information or private communications you transmit to us will always remain confidential, and you do so at your own risk. If a password is used to help protect your accounts and Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information, you are responsible for keeping your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving the Website or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.
While no website can guarantee security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information you provide to us as specified under applicable laws. We ensure that only authorized employees are permitted to access Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information, and they only may do so for permitted business functions. Please be aware that the Website and data storage run on software, hardware and networks, any component of which may, from time to time, require maintenance or experience problems or breaches of security beyond our control.
CHANGES IN POLICY AND ACCEPTANCE
FlexiLoans may from time to time update this Privacy Policy. FlexiLoans will ensure to place a notice on the top of this page with the latest updated date. Accordingly, you should check the Privacy Policy on a regular basis for the most current privacy practices. Each time you access, use or browse the Website, you signify your acceptance of the then-current changes to the Privacy Policy applying to your Information collected by us, on and from the effective date of such changes.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Privacy Policy or elsewhere, FlexiLoans shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of your Sensitive Personal Data or Information/Personal Information, if such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event (as defined below).
A “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any event that is beyond the reasonable control of FlexiLoans and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes, lockouts or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, civil disturbances, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, and any other similar events not within the control of FlexiLoans and which FlexiLoans is not able to overcome.
OPT-OUT
You have the option to ‘opt-out’ of all FlexiLoans’ newsletters and other general e-mail marketing communications by way of links provided at the bottom of each mailer. FlexiLoans respects your privacy and in the event that you choose to not receive such mailers, it shall take all adequate steps to remove you from such lists. However, you will not be able to opt-out of receiving administrative messages, customer service responses or other transactional communications.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail them to myaccount@flexiloans.com or call us at 02268219595
GRIEVANCE OFFICER
In accordance with the Act and Rules made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below: Name: Mr. Manish Lunia Address: One World Center, Indiabulls Financial Center Tower-2, 7th Floor, South Annexe, 841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Saidham Nagar, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013 Phone: 02268219595 Email: compliance@epimoney.com
SCHEDULE 1
Rule 2 (i) “Personal information” means any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person. Rule 3 “Sensitive personal data or information” of a person means such personal information which consists of information relating to:- password; financial information such as Bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details; physical, physiological and mental health condition; sexual orientation; medical records and history; Biometric information; any detail relating to the above clauses as provided to body corporate for providing service; any of the information received under above clauses by body corporate for processing, stored or processed under lawful contract or otherwise: Provided that, any information that is freely available or accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force shall not be regarded as sensitive personal data or information for the purposes of these rules.
Terms & Conditions
INTRODUCTION:
This document is an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules thereunder as applicable and the provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that requires publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and terms of use for access or usage of this website.
The domain name FlexiLoans.com (“Website”) is owned by Epimoney Private Limited, a RBI registered Non-banking Financial Company (NBFC) and a private company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 with its registered office at No.119, 2nd Floor, Greenways Towers, St. Mary's Road, Abhiramapuram, Chennai – 600 018 and its Corporate Office at 7th Floor, South Annexe, Tower 2, One World Centre 841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Saidham Nagar, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400013 (hereinafter referred to as “FlexiLoans”, which expression shall, unless it be repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, be deemed to include its successors, affiliates, partners and permitted assigns). The objective of the Website is to facilitate the lending and borrowing of capital, in accordance with the terms of the loan agreement to be executed between you and Epimoney.
For the purpose of these Terms of Use (“Terms”), wherever the context so requires, the term:
“Borrower” shall mean a proprietorship concern, partnership firm, limited liability partnership and an incorporated company carrying on business in India, which is willing to borrow, using the Website and is registered as a ‘borrower’ on the Website.
“Epimoney’s Lending Partner” shall mean one or more financial institutions with whom Epimoney may propose to jointly extend credit facilities to the Borrower.
“Force Majeure Event” shall mean any event that is beyond the reasonable control of FlexiLoans and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, act of God, civil commotion, strikes, lockouts or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, civil disturbances, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, virus attacks, breach of security and encryption, and any other similar events not within the control of FlexiLoans and which FlexiLoans is not able to overcome.
FlexiLoans reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use (“Terms”), at any time without any prior written notice to the Borrower. It is the Borrower’s sole responsibility to review these Terms periodically for updates or changes. The Borrower’s use of the Website or availing the Services through the Website in any way following the posting of changes shall be deemed to mean that the Borrower accepts and agrees to the revisions. As long as the Borrower complies with these Terms, FlexiLoans grants the Borrower a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to access and use the Website.
Accessing, browsing or otherwise using the Website which includes but is not limited to availing the Services provided through the Website, indicates that Borrower has read, understood and agreest to all the terms and conditions under these Terms. Borrower is advised to read these Terms carefully before proceeding. By impliedly or expressly accepting these Terms, the Borrower also accepts and agrees to be bound by all FlexiLoans’ policies, including but not limited to its Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.
MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY:
Use of the Website is available only to persons who can enter into legally binding contracts under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. Persons who are “incompetent to contract” within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 including minors, un-discharged insolvents and persons of unsound mind are not eligible to use the Website. Any person under the age of 18 shall not register as a Borrower on the Website and shall not transact on or use the Website. FlexiLoans reserves the right to terminate any person’s membership and/or refuse to provide such person with access to the Website if it is brought to FlexiLoans’ notice or if it is discovered that such person is not eligible to use the Website. In case you are using the Website and opening an account on the Website on behalf of an incorporated entity, it is presumed that you have been authorised by the entity and your use of the Website shall bind the entity with respect to these Terms. If the user violates any of these Terms and Condition from time to time and such revision/modification shall be effective upon posting by us on the website. The member should agree to be bound to any changes to this Terms & Condition when they use such services after such modification is posted. It is therefore important that the members review the Terms & Conditions regularly upon each use of the services to ensure any updates as to changes. The Website is intended for users within India only.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
We, at FlexiLoans provide an independent online service which facilitates your access to loans and related financial services and other products or services provided by our partner financial institutions whilst using this Website. We receive a fee and/or commission from the partners when you use our service to purchase products or services from them.
By making use of this Website and furnishing your personal/contact details, you hereby agree that you are interested in availing and purchasing the services that you have selected. You hereby agree that FlexiLoans/ FlexiLoans’ partner financial institutions may contact you either electronically or through phone, to understand your interest in the selected products and services and to fulfil your demand. You also agree that FlexiLoans reserves the right to make your details available to any of our authorized members/ agents or partners/Epimoney’s Lending Partner and you may be contacted by them for information and for sales through email, telephone and/or text message. You agree to receive promotional materials and/or special offers from FlexiLoans through email or text message. If you are in any doubt as to the suitability, adequacy or appropriateness of any product or service referred to on this Website, we suggest that you seek independent professional advice before you obtain any product or service via this Website.
As a user of this Website (hereinafter referred to as the “User(s)”) you have agreed to the Terms & Conditions that FlexiLoans has provided hereunder or anywhere else in this Website, including but not limited to disclaimers on this Website. You agree to read and understand the said Terms & Conditions and the Terms and Conditions establish a contractual relationship between the User and FlexiLoans. The Offer of Services on the Website is conditional upon the User’s irrevocable consent and acceptance of all the terms, conditions and obligations contained in the Terms and Conditions, which may be amended from time to time.
You undertake and acknowledge that,
I. For the purpose of assessing your credit worthiness, Epimoney is authorized to pull from CIBIL and/or any other agency authorized by RBI, data of the applicant(s), directors, group companies, and any other individuals who are involved in the said business, on behalf of which this loan application is made;
II. CIBIL and any other agency so authorized may use, process the said information and data disclosed by Epimoney in the manner as deemed fit by them;
III. CIBIL, and any other agency so authorized may furnish for consideration, the processed information and data or products thereof prepared by them, to banks/financial institutions and other credit grantors or registered users, as may be specified by the RBI in this behalf;
IV. For the purpose of verification of my/our personal data, Epimoney is authorized to pull from Central KYC Records Registry, ‘Know Your Customer’ data of the applicant(s), directors, group companies, and any other individuals who are involved in the said business, on behalf of which this loan application is made; and
V. For the purpose of assessing our credit worthiness, Epimoney is authorized to fetch Goods and Service Tax returns/data, of the applicant(s), group companies, on behalf of which this loan application is made.
BORROWER’S ACCOUNT:
The Website allows very limited and restricted access to the Services for unregistered users.In order for a Borrower to avail the Services from FlexiLoans through the Website, the Borrower is required to create an account on the Website (“Account”) and provide FlexiLoans with certain user information/documentation for verification, which shall include your name, phone number, your address, your date of birth, your e-mail address, your gender, your financial information such as bank account, bank account statement or credit card or debit card or other payment details, your permanent account number, aadhar number, details of your income tax returns (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Customer Data”). You hereby understand and provide an explicit consent to FlexiLoans and Epimoney to share the Customer Data with any co-lending partner of Epimoney for the following purposes: (1) Collection, storage, preservation, analysis, publishing and dissemination, at any time, of all the Customer Data, as the case may be; (2) Verification or authentication of Customer Data, making related enquiries on the basis of the Customer Data for the purpose of assessing eligibility for loan and/or value added services opted/ availed by me from/ through Epimoney and any co-lender; and (3) for complying with the laws applicable from time to time.
In addition to the above, FlexiLoans reserves the right to request the Borrower to provide such other information/documentation as it may deem fit. FlexiLoans reserves the right to reject the request for creation of the account, at its sole discretion, if the information submitted appears to be incomplete, incorrect or fraudulent.
While registering with the Website to avail the Services, the Borrower shall not:
(a) create any Account for anyone other than the Borrower, unless such person’s prior written permission has been obtained;
(b) use an Account that is the name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person;
(c) use a name for the Account that is a name that is otherwise offensive, vulgar or obscene or otherwise unlawful; or
(d) create more than one Account on the Website.
BORROWER OBLIGATIONS:
The Borrower will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the login credentials and the Account information and shall be fully responsible for all activities that occur under the Account. The Borrower agrees to, (i) immediately notify FlexiLoans of any unauthorised use of the Account information or any other breach of security; and (ii) ensure that the Borrower exits from the Account at the end of each session. FlexiLoans cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the Borrower’s failure to comply with this Clause. The Borrower may be held liable for losses incurred by FlexiLoans or any user or visitor of the Website due to authorised or unauthorised use of the Account, as a result of the Borrower’s failure in keeping the Account information confidential.
The Borrower shall ensure that the Account information provided by the Borrower in the Website’s registration form is complete, accurate and up-to-date. Use of another Borrower’s account information for availing the Services of the Website is expressly prohibited.
The Borrower agrees that if the Borrower provides any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete) or if FlexiLoans has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current, incomplete, or not in accordance with the these Terms, FlexiLoans shall have the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block access to the Account on the Website and refuse to provide the Borrower with access to the Website..
USE OF WEBSITE:
The Borrower agrees, undertakes and covenants that, during the use of the Website, the Borrower shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that:
- Belongs to another person or entity and to which the Borrower does not have any right.
- Is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable, disparaging or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever.
- Is misleading in any way.
- Involves the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters”, or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming”.
- Infringes upon or violates any third party’s rights including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy (including without limitation unauthorized disclosure of a person’s name, email address, physical address or phone number) or rights of publicity.
- Tries to gain unauthorized access or exceeds the scope of authorized access to the Website or to profiles, blogs, communities, account information, bulletins, or other areas of the Website or solicits passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Borrowers.
- Interferes with another Borrower’s use and enjoyment of the Website.
- Refers to any website or URL that, in FlexiLoan’s sole discretion, contains material that is inappropriate for the Website or any other website, contains content that would be prohibited or violates the letter or spirit of these Terms.
- Contains software viruses or any other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any trojan horses, worms or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
MONITORING OF WEBSITE AND MEMBER’S ACCOUNT:
FlexiLoans has the right and liberty to monitor the content of the Website at all times which shall include information provided in your account. The monitoring of the Website is important to determine the veracity of the information provided by you and that every User remains in consonance with the Terms & Conditions provided herein. Subject to the Terms & Conditions mentioned herein FlexiLoans shall also have the liberty to remove any objectionable content which is in contravention of the Terms & Conditions herein or share such information with any governmental authority as per procedures laid down by the law for the time being in force in India.
LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS:
FlexiLoans grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of the Site. This license does not include any downloading (other than page caching) or modifying it, or any portion of it (except with express written consent of FlexiLoans); unauthorized hypertext links to the Site and the framing of any content available through the Site; uploading, posting, or transmitting any content that you do not have a right to make available (such as the intellectual property of another party); uploading, posting, or transmitting any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; any action that imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on FlexiLoans’ infrastructure; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This website or any portion of this website (including but not limited to any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information) may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, distributed or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of FlexiLoans and / or its affiliates, as may be applicable. The member may not bypass any measures used by FlexiLoans to prevent or restrict access to the Site. Any unauthorized use by them shall terminate the permission or license granted to you by FlexiLoans. By using this Site and by accepting to agree to these Terms & Conditions they also agree that they shall not hack or otherwise hire some third party to hack the Site or use any other unauthorized means without a written consent of FlexiLoans and access any third-party information. The members shall in such an event be liable of a criminal offence and FlexiLoans shall institute appropriate legal proceedings to claim damages.
FEEDBACK:
FlexiLoans may allow members to post their review and experience of using the Website and the Services (“Reviews “) in order to improve the Website, the Services and the user experience.
User, being the originator of the Reviews, are responsible for the Reviews that they upload, post, publish, transmit or otherwise make available on the Website. Members represent that all such Reviews will be in accordance with applicable law. They acknowledge that FlexiLoans does not endorse any Reviews on the Website and is not responsible or liable for any Reviews. FlexiLoans reserves the right to disable access to the Reviews on the Website.
User hereby grant FlexiLoans a perpetual, non-revocable, worldwide, royalty-free and sub-licensable right and license to use, copy, distribute, display, publish, transmit, make available, reproduce, modify, adapt the Reviews in any manner as deemed appropriate by FlexiLoans in any form including but not limited to print, broadcast, online and across any and all websites and platforms owned by FlexiLoans.
Users further represent and warrant that while posting any Reviews on the Website they shall not use any offensive, libellous, derogatory, hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable language. Further, they shall not post any content on the Website that is obscene, pornographic, constitutes an “indecent representation of women” as provided in the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.
CONFIDENTIALITY:
As elaborated under the Privacy Policy, FlexiLoans will keep all confidential information confidential, including the Borrower’s personal and business information, and shall not disclose it to anyone except as required by law, and shall ensure that such confidential information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that it would apply to its own confidential information. FlexiLoans acknowledges that its employees, directors, agents and contractors shall use the confidential information only for the intended purpose for which it is provided. FlexiLoans shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that its employees, directors, agents and contractors acknowledge and comply with the provisions of these Terms of confidentiality as if such person was subject to these Terms of confidentiality.
ADVERTISERS / LINKS TO THIRD-PARTIE’S WEBSITE:
The Website may contain links and interactive functionality interacting with the websites of third parties. FlexiLoans is not responsible for and has no liability for the functionality, actions, inactions, privacy settings, privacy policies, terms, or content of any such website. Before enabling any sharing functions to communicate with any such website or otherwise visiting any such website, FlexiLoans strongly recommends that the Borrower reviews and understands the terms and conditions, privacy policies, settings, and information-sharing functions of each such third-party website.
INDEMNIFICATION:
The Borrower shall indemnify, save and hold harmless FlexiLoans, its owner, licensors, licensee, affiliates, contractors, subsidiaries, group companies (as applicable) and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or demand, or actions including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or arising out of the Borrower’s breach of these Terms, Privacy Policy and other policies, or the Borrower’s violation of any law, rules or regulations or the rights (including infringement of any intellectual property rights) of a third party. FlexiLoans reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify FlexiLoans, including rights to settle, and you agree to cooperate with FlexiLoans’ defense and settlement of these claims. FlexiLoans will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any claim, action, or proceeding brought by a third party that is subject to the foregoing indemnification upon becoming aware of it.
TERMINATION:
FlexiLoans, in its sole discretion, may modify, suspend, or terminate access to, all or any portion of the Website at any time for any reason including termination for breach of any of these Terms.
None of the Borrower’s content shall remain accessible on the Website upon termination. This information cannot be recovered by the Borrower, once the account is terminated.
The disclaimer of warranties, the limitation of liability, and the governing law provisions shall survive any termination of these Terms.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES:
The website and all information, content, materials and services included on or otherwise made available to the borrower through the website (collectively, the “contents “) are provided by Flexiloans on an “as is,” “as available” basis, without representations or warranties of any kind. Flexiloans makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the website, the accuracy or completeness of the contents and the accuracy of the information or receipt of loans. Flexiloans shall have no responsibility for any damage to the borrower’s computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any content, materials, document or information or any other losses incurred by the borrower for failure to receive loans. The borrower expressly agrees that the use of the website is at the borrower’s sole risk. Flexiloans will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the website or the services or the contents including, without limitation, direct, indirect, consequential, punitive, and consequential damages, unless otherwise specified in writing. To the full extent permitted by law, Flexiloans disclaims any and all representations and warranties with respect to the website and its contents, whether express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or use. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from FlexiLoans through or from the service will create any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms & Conditions.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
In no event shall Flexiloans, its directors, employees or agents, be liable for any special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages whatsoever resulting from any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from the borrower’s access to and use of the website; (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of the secure servers and/or any and all personal and/or business and/or financial information stored therein; (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the website; (v) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like, which may be transmitted to or through the website by any third party; and/or (vi) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the website, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not Flexiloans is advised of the possibility of such damages. Subject to the above and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these terms, the maximum aggregate liability (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or equity) of Flexiloans vis-à-vis any borrower, regardless of the form of claim, shall be limited to the aggregate of fees, if any, paid by the borrower to Flexiloans. The foregoing limitations of liability will apply notwithstanding the failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy herein. This limitation of liability clause shall prevail over any conflicting or inconsistent provision contained in any of the documents / content comprising this Terms & Conditions. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature.
SEVERABILITY:
If a provision of these Terms is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
CONTENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:
FlexiLoans solely and exclusively owns copyrights, trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, and other intellectual and proprietary rights associated with the Website and content on the Website and is protected under Indian law.
You hereby acknowledge that the Website constitutes original work and has been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by FlexiLoans through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property of us and such others. You thereby agree to protect the proprietary rights of FlexiLoans during and after the term of these Terms. You may not selectively download portions of the Website without retaining the copyright notices. You may download material from the Website only for your own personal use and for no commercial purposes whatsoever.
Any infringement shall lead to appropriate legal proceedings against you at appropriate forum for seeking all available remedies under applicable laws of the country.
FORCE MAJEURE:
FlexiLoans shall not be liable to you for its failure to perform or for delay in providing you access to your Account or to the Website, to the extent such failure or delay results from causes beyond its control, including, without limitation, acts of God, fires, explosions, wars or other hostilities, insurrections, revolutions, strikes, labour unrest, earthquakes, floods, epidemics or quarantine restrictions, unforeseeable governmental restrictions or controls or a failure by a third party hosting provider or internet service provider or on account of any change or defect in the software and/or hardware of your computer system.
GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION:
These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of India. The place of jurisdiction shall exclusively be in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. In the event of any dispute arising out of these Terms the same shall be settled by a binding arbitration conducted by a sole arbitrator, appointed jointly by both parties and governed by the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The venue of arbitration shall be Mumbai, Maharashtra and the arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English language. If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a Court of Law, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the remainder of the Terms & Conditions which will continue in full force and effect
ASSIGNMENT:
It is expressly agreed by the parties that FlexiLoans may assign all or part of its rights or duties under these Terms without such assignment being considered a change to these Terms and without notice to you, except to the extent provided by law.
GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL MECHANISM:
In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made thereunder, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below:
Name: Mr. Manish Lunia
Address: 7th Floor, South Annexe, Tower 2, One World Centre 841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Saidham Nagar, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400013.
Phone: 022-62603800
E-mail: nodal.grievance@
HOW TO CONTACT US:
If you have questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us at compliance@epimoney.com or call us on 022-62603800.
Legal Disclaimer
This website and mobile application is the online portal owned by Epimoney Pvt. Ltd. (FlexiLoans) and is to be used for personal information purposes only. All the information displayed, transmitted or carried by the website including, but not limited to guides, news articles, external links, opinions, text, photographs, images, illustrations, trademarks, service marks and the like are provided on an ” as is” basis without warranties of any kind and stand protected by the copyright and other intellectual property laws. Any of the content published on the website shall not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, reused or published in whole or in part by the recipient hereof or any other person for any purpose without the prior written approval of the company.
While the content of the website may be updated periodically, we do not guarantee that it reflects the latest amendments/ information at any time.
All text, data, graphs and other pieces of information are presented with the best possible attempts to maintaining integrity, consistency and reliability of the same. However, none of the employees, directors, consultants, agents, representatives stand guarantors to any kind about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In the event that an inaccuracy or discrepancy is noticed by anyone who accesses the website, we would like you to inform us so that it can be corrected.
None of the company representative stands liable for any direct or indirect loss of profit or consequential damages that are alleged to have resulted from the use and/or inability to access or use the website features or misinterpretation or misrepresentation of information of any kind. The company does not become liable for any technical failure or malfunctioning of the software or the performance of any of our services. We are also not responsible for non-receipt of registration details or e-mails. Users shall bear all responsibility of keeping the password secure and we are not responsible for the loss or misuse of the same.
This website provides some link to other websites which are not under our direct control. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them and they are presented without any prior screening or review. While attempts are made at delivering only the relevant information to our users, no representative of the company holds any kind of liability as to the use of such content made available through those sites.
We strive at keeping the website up and running smoothly along with all its features and services. However, technical issues beyond our control may arise when the website becomes temporarily unavailable or some of the features may not work as they are expected to. The company does not take responsibility for such events and will not be liable for any financial or non-tangible losses arising due to the same. We do not warrant that the use of services, software or any other features available on the website will be uninterrupted, secure or error free or that any such defects in the services will be corrected.
RBI Disclaimer
a. Reserve Bank of India neither accepts any responsibility nor guarantees the present position as to the financial soundness of the company or for the correctness of any of the statements or representations made or opinions expressed by the company and for discharge of any liability by the company.
b. Neither there is any provision in law to keep, nor does the company keep any part of the deposits with the Reserve Bank of India and by issuing a Certificate of Registration to the company, the Reserve Bank of India, neither accepts any responsibility nor guarantees the payment of the deposits to any depositor or any person who has lent any sum to the company.
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NACH Circular
Following the NACH Circular (vide cir. no: NPCI/2020-21/NACH/Circular No. 013 & NPCI/2020-21/NACH/Circular No. 044 and 025) issued by NPCI, all customers are requested that for any requests related to initiating any stop/cancel the NACH mandate, please write to us at myaccount@flexiloans.com.
Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS)
Epimoney Private limited is a Member Lending Institution (MLI) which in compliance to ECLGS scheme proposed by NCGTC to aid Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector has updated the product offerings to existing customers as per the eligibility norms of the scheme.
Scheme has been proposed in 3 different Tranches:
ECLGS 1.0 , ECLGS 2.0 , ECLGS 3.0
For eligibility and latest update from the trust please refer to:
https://www.eclgs.com/documents/NCGTC%20letter%20to%20MLI%20dated%20April%2001,2021.pdf
To understand the latest Operating Guidelines of the Scheme please refer to:
https://www.eclgs.com/documents/Operational%20Guidelines-ECLGS-%20Updated%20as%20on%2016.04.2021.pdf
For other FAQs:
https://www.eclgs.com/documents/FAQs-ECLGS%20-Updated%20as%20on%2022.04.2021.pdf
FAQS on restructuring 2.0 scheme of RBI
1. What is the restructuring 2.0 scheme approved by RBI?
The Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) had provided a framework dated August 6, 2020 to banks & lending institutions for implementation of resolution plans for addressing the economic fallout due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to significant financial stress for customers. The RBI has further issued two notifications to extend the above facility under the Resolutions Framework 2.0:
- Notification RBI/2021-22/31/DOR.STR.REC.11/21.04.048/2021-22 dealing with Resolution framework for Advances to Individuals and other Businesses.
- Notification RBI/2021-22/32/DOR.STR.REC.12/21.04.048/2021-22 dealing with Restructuring of Advances to MSMEs
Basis the framework and regulatory guidelines, Epimoney Private Limited (‘the Company’) has framed and adopted this policy named as “Restructuring of the loan/s 2.0” (‘Policy’) of individuals and entities that have been impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.2. Who is eligible for restructuring?
Customers meeting below mentioned criteria will be eligible for restructuring as per RBI circular under Resolution Framework 2.0
I. Individuals and Small Businesses –
- Individuals who have availed loans for personal purposes.
- Individuals who have availed of loans and advances for business purposes and to whom the lending institutions have aggregate exposure of not more than INR 25 Crores as on March 31, 2021.
- Small businesses, including those engaged in retail and wholesale trade, other than those classified as micro, small and medium enterprises as on March 31, 2021, and to whom the lending institutions have aggregate exposure of not more than INR 25 Crores as on March 31, 2021.
- Credit facilities / investment exposure to the borrower was classified as Standard by the lending institution as on March 31, 2021.
II. Entities (MSME segment) –
Should have been classified as Standard as on March 31, 2021 and should also fulfill the following criteria –
- Self Employed customer segment who qualifies the below mentioned MSME norms.
- The borrower should be classified as a micro, small or medium enterprise as on March 31, 2021 in terms of the Gazette Notification S.O. 2119 (E) dated June 26, 2020
- Udyam registration document will be required for MSME classification
- The aggregate exposure, including non-fund based facilities, of banks and NBFCs to the borrower does not exceed INR 25 Crores as on March 31, 2021.
- The borrower’s account was a ‘standard asset’ as on March 31, 2021.
- The borrowing entity is GST-registered on the date of implementation of the restructuring. However, this condition will not apply to MSMEs that are exempt from GST-registration. This shall be determined on the basis of exemption limit obtaining as on March 31, 2021.
- The borrower’s account was not restructured under previous MSME restructuring circulars.
3. What loans will qualify under the definition of “Personal purpose”?
- Personal loans refer to loans given to individuals and consist of:
- Consumer Credit - personal loans to professionals (excluding loans for business purposes)
- Education Loan
- Loans given for creation/ enhancement of immovable assets (e.g., housing, etc.)
- Loans given for investment in financial assets (shares, debentures, etc.)
- MSME loans with Udyam certificate (The borrower should be classified as a MSME on March 31, 2021 in terms of Gazette Notification S.O. 2119 (E) dated June 26, 2020).
4. Am I eligible for restructuring if I have take loan after March 31, 2021 and affected by pandemic?
No, only those loans which were availed on or before March 31, 2021 and affected by pandemic will be eligible for restructuring.
5. How do I avail the restructuring benefit on my loan?
You may visit our Company website for the application link, fill the application form and submit the relevant details.
6. Can I apply multiple times for restructuring?
No, you can apply for restructuring only once.
7. What are the restructuring options that are available to me?
The balance tenure of the loan can be extended by a further period of maximum 24 months, including the moratorium period at the Company’s discretion to ease your monthly EMI repayment burden.
8. Do I need to submit any documents to avail the restructuring benefit?
The Company will require you to submit documents giving details about the current status of your employment or business:
- Latest 6 months bank statements till date ( from Jan’ 21 onwards till date of application)
- Udyam certificate for MSME customers
- Declaration by self-employed non-professionals/ businessmen declaring that their business is affected by Covid-19
9. Will opting for the restructuring package have an impact on my credit bureau report?
As per regulatory guidelines, your loan/credit facility will be reported to the credit bureau as “Restructured”.
10. I hold multiple loans/credit facilities with the bank/lending institution. Do I have to apply separately for each of these loans?
The restructuring application form shall have the option to apply for one or all the loans by a single application on the Company’s website. The Company shall assess the application on regulatory guidelines, on the COVID-19 impact and the viability of the repayment plan before decisioning the same.
11. Can I apply for restructuring now as I was not able to apply for moratorium before?
The scheme for restructuring is open to all customers of the Company irrespective of the moratorium applied status subject to the borrower meeting the regulatory guidelines of restructuring.
12. I have already availed of restructuring. Can I avail this once again?
If you have already availed restructuring, you are not eligible for restructuring under this scheme. However, if you have not availed of the full benefit of 24 months tenor extension in the earlier scheme which ended on December 31, 2020, the Company can evaluate and provide relief to the extent of overall tenor extension subject to eligibility conditions being met.
13. My loan was taken along with a co-borrower/s. Will all the co-borrowers of the original Loan agreement be required to sign the revised restructuring agreement?
As per regulatory and legal requirements, all borrowers/co-borrowers of the original loan need to agree and sign on any changes in the loan structure including the restructuring agreement.
14. What is the last date of making applications through the portal?
The link on the portal will be live till September 10, 2021 for customers.
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