Bank Deposit Custodial Program Agreement

Bank Deposit Custodial Program Agreement

I. Bank Deposit Custodial Program Agreement.

This Program Agreement is pursuant to and hereby incorporates by reference the terms and conditions of the Step Visa Card and Secured Account Agreement (“Account Agreement”), except to the extent modified or supplemented below. Any such modifications or supplements are for the purpose of this Program Agreement only and shall not affect the Account Agreement or any other agreement. Through this Program Agreement , you agree to participate in the sweeps program (the “Program”) offered by us in partnership with Service Provider, and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth below. If you have any questions about any provisions of this Agreement, please contact us at support@step.com.

A. Introduction

Pursuant to the terms of this Program Agreement, you agree to appoint Bank, as agent for you and as custodian, to open and maintain with one or more insured depository institutions (each, a "Program Bank” and collectively, “Program Banks”) a deposit account, transaction account, money marketing account, or omnibus custody account (individually and collectively, “Sub-Deposit Account”) in the name of Bank (for your benefit), and to deposit your funds into Sub-Deposit Accounts at one or more Program Banks as set forth on a list provided to you (“Bank List”). You agree to open a custodial account at Bank (“Custodial Account”), which may be used to facilitate deposits to and withdrawals from the Sub-Deposit Account.

When you deposit funds through the Program, your funds will be deposited into your Secured Account at Bank (“Account”) or will be deposited by Bank, as your agent and custodian, into the Sub-Deposit Account, subject to this Program Agreement Balances in the Account in excess of $250,000 may be deposited by Bank, as your agent and custodian, into Sub-Deposit Accounts at one or more Program Banks via your Account or Custodial Account. As your custodian, Bank will maintain records of your Sub-Deposit Accounts at each Program Bank. Your funds at Bank and at each Program Bank identified as a “Priority Bank” on the Bank List are eligible for FDIC insurance coverage up to $250,000 for each insurable capacity in which such account is held (e.g., individual account, joint account, etc.) (the “Deposit Limit”).

Amounts in excess of the Deposit Limit in the Account may be deposited at one or more Priority Banks. However, amounts in excess of the Deposit Limit at Bank or any Priority Bank will not be covered by FDIC insurance; any amount in excess of the Program Insurance Eligibility Limit may be deposited at Bank or a Priority Bank acting as an “Excess Bank” (as set forth on the Bank List) for such amount, and such amounts may not be covered by FDIC insurance

Any deposits (including certificates of deposit) that you maintain in the same insurable capacity directly with Bank, a Program Bank or through an intermediary (such as a broker), regardless of the number of accounts, will be aggregated with funds in your Account, Sub-Deposit Account, Custodial Account or any other account at Bank or a Program Bank for purposes of the Deposit Limit. You are responsible for monitoring the total amount of deposits that you have with Bank and each Program Bank in order to determine the extent of FDIC insurance coverage available to you.

The Sub-Deposit Accounts are solely the obligations of the Program Banks, and neither directly nor indirectly obligations of Bank nor Service Provider. Bank is agent and custodian for you with respect to Sub-Deposit Accounts and your funds deposited through the Program and ownership will be evidenced by a book entry in records maintained by us. You will not have a direct relationship with the Program Banks. No evidence of ownership related to the Sub-Deposit Account will be issued to you, and you will not receive any written confirmation of the establishment of the Sub-Deposit Account or transfer of funds to or from the Sub-Deposit Account. All deposits and withdrawals will be made by Bank on your behalf, and all deposits to your Sub-Deposit Account and withdrawals from the Sub-Deposit Account from your Account will be made by Bank, as your agent. Information about your Sub-Deposit Accounts may be obtained from Service Provider or Bank, not the Program Banks.

All communications regarding the Program, including periodic statements and notices regarding changes to the Program, are the responsibility of Service Provider and not Bankthe Program Banks. If you have any questions regarding your Account or Sub-Deposit Accounts, please contact Service Provider at support@step.com.

The terms and conditions of the Program, and any feature of the Program, may be varied at Bank’s sole discretion in accordance with this Program Agreement.

B. Appointment of Bank as Your Agent and Custodian

You appoint Bank, and Bank agrees to be appointed, as your agent and custodian to hold in safekeeping all Sub-Deposit Accounts at Program Banks. You authorize Bank to execute and deliver or file on your behalf all appropriate receipts, agreements, releases and other instruments, including whatever agreements may be required to establish and maintain the Sub-Deposit Accounts or to establish your ownership interest in the Sub-Deposit Account. You appoint Bank to act as your agent with respect to establishing, maintaining and administering the Sub-Deposit Account, and you authorize us to take any action necessary to establish, maintain and administer the Sub-Deposit Account and to initiate transfers to and from your Sub-Deposit Account, Custodial Account and Account.

You agree that Bank, as your agent, may place any or all of your funds on deposit with Bank at one or more Program Banks in an amount determined in Bank’s sole discretion based on available capacity at the Program Bank or other criteria, including rates or fees paid on deposits by the Program Bank to Bank. Bank may place your funds in excess of the Program Insurance Eligibility Limit without regard to whether such funds may exceed the Deposit Limit at one or more Program Banks, even if your funds could be placed in one or more Program Banks in an amount less than the Deposit Limit.

Bank may financially benefit if it places your funds into a Program Bank in excess of the Deposit Limit when that Program Bank pays a greater amount of fees to Bank than other Program Banks that could accept your deposits in amounts under the FDIC insurance limit. Please carefully read the section entitled “Waiver of Conflicts” below.

You authorize Bank to collect and retain all payments of income pertaining to the Sub-Deposit Accounts (if any) and to deliver or transfer the funds on deposit in the Sub-Deposit Accounts to another account with Bank, including your Account, to process any transactions or transfers from your Account. As your agent, you authorize Bank to determine the amount of funds to deposit in and withdraw from each Sub-Deposit Account.

You agree that Bank, in its sole discretion, may divide the funds deposited into your Account into one or more separate Sub-Deposit Account to be managed by Bank.

You agree that Bank may comply with any writ of attachment, execution, garnishment, tax levy, restraining order, subpoena, warrant or other legal process that Bank believes (correctly or otherwise) to be valid. We may notify you of such process by telephone, electronically or in writing. If Bank is not fully reimbursed for its record research, photocopying and handling costs by the party that served the process, Bank may charge such costs to your Sub-Deposit Account, in addition to any minimum fee Bank may charge for complying with legal processes.

You agree that Bank may honor any legal process that is served personally, by mail, or by facsimile transmission at any of Bank’s offices or an office of Bank’s agent (including locations other than where the funds, records or property sought is held), even if the law requires personal delivery at the office where your Account or records are maintained.

We may provide your name, tax identification number and other pertinent identifying information to Program Banks, and other parties providing services in connection with the placement of your funds and the establishing and holding the Sub-Deposit Account.

You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any action taken or omitted by us hereunder in good faith, unless required by applicable law.

You agree to indemnify us and our nominees against, and to hold us and our nominees harmless from, all expenses (including counsel fees), liabilities and claims arising out of the holding, delivery or transfer of the Sub-Deposit Accounts and compliance with any legal process that we believe (correctly or otherwise) to be valid.

C. Operation of the Program

i. Accounts at Bank. You agree that when you establish an Account with us, we may establish a Sub-Deposit Account on your behalf at a Program Bank. Please read the section titled “Your Relationship with Bank and the Program Banks” below. In connection with any funds placed through the Program, we may also open a Custodial Account to facilitate transfers of funds to and from your Account.

ii. Accounts at Program Banks. As your agent, we will open one or more Sub-Deposit Accounts on your behalf at the Program Banks on the then-current Bank List and act as your custodian for the Sub-Deposit Accounts. At some Program Banks, we may open a money market deposit account (“MMDA”) and a transaction account (“TA”); at other Program Banks, we may open a TA only. Each MMDA and TA are considered a Sub-Deposit Account. The Sub-Deposit Account may not be transferred to another institution, except by us or the Program Bank.

iii. Program Bank List. The Bank List of available Program Banks into which your funds may be deposited is available on our website at: https://www.getevolved.com/openbanking/fdic-insured-sweep-program/ or by contacting us. The Bank List may include one or more Program Banks that constitute Excess Banks; we may deposit your funds which are in excess of the Deposit Limit at an Excess Bank without limit and without regard to Deposit Limit if funds sufficient to meet the Program Insurance Eligibility Limit have been placed at one or more Priority Banks. If all of your funds are withdrawn from a Program Bank, the next time your funds are available for deposit in a Program Bank, your funds may be deposited in a different Program Bank.

You may at any time, with reasonable advance notice to us at support@step.com, designate a Program Bank as ineligible to receive your funds. In addition, you may at any time instruct Bank to remove your funds from a Program Bank, terminate your use of the Sub-Deposit Accounts with the Program Bank and designate the Program Bank as ineligible to receive future deposits. Any funds from a closed Sub-Deposit Account will be deposited into Sub-Deposit Accounts at another Program Bank set forth on the Bank List, as amended by you, or if no other Program Bank is eligible, the funds will be deposited into your Account at Bank. For example, if you maintain other accounts at a Program Bank on the list separate from the Program, you may wish to designate this Program Bank as ineligible to avoid the aggregation of funds in your account(s) held directly with funds deposited through the Program as the combination of funds may exceed the amount of available FDIC insurance coverage at that Program Bank. If you designate all Program Banks as ineligible, we will return funds to your Account at Bank and may, in our discretion and in accordance with law, close your Account and any Sub-Deposit Account opened specifically for you.

iv. FDIC Deposit Insurance. Bank will retain at Bank the first $250,000 of your funds deposited into the Account, which will be eligible for FDIC insurance up to the maximum legal amount provided by the FDIC. We may place your funds in excess of $250,000 at Priority Banks as your agent in a manner that enables up to $250,000 in FDIC insurance at each Priority Bank (up to an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 across multiple Priority Banks) or such other greater amount as may be disclosed to you by us from time to time to be eligible for FDIC insurance through the Program (such amount, the “Program Insurance Eligibility Limit”). For example, if you deposit $1,000,000 into your Account (and have no pending Account transactions), Bank will retain the first $250,000 of that deposit in your Account held at Bank. The excess amount over the $250,000 will be placed at Priority Banks (each such Priority Bank to receive $250,000). From time to time, we may increase the amount of available FDIC insurance through the Program, and you will be notified of such an increase. Any other deposits you have at the Priority Banks outside of the Program may reduce FDIC insurance coverage of your deposits through the Program. Moreover, if you have designated one or more Priority Banks as ineligible to receive your funds, the amount of FDIC insurance for which your funds are eligible may be limited. The depositing of your funds into the Sub-Deposit Account may not increase your FDIC deposit insurance coverage, and may, in fact, reduce insurance coverage depending on any other deposits you may maintain at a Program Bank.

v. Changes to Bank List. One or more of the Program Banks included on the Bank List may be replaced with a Program Bank not previously included on the Bank List or a Program Bank may be deleted from the Bank List. In addition, Program Banks designated as Priority Banks may be replaced with a Program Bank not previously designated as a Priority Bank or a Program Bank may be removed from the list of designated Priority Banks. We will notify you if the Bank List has changed in accordance with the section titled “Changes to the Program.” Continued use of your Account and/or the Program after receipt of the initial Bank List or notice of subsequent changes to such list will constitute your consent to such list.

An increase in the number of Priority Banks in the future may not increase the potential FDIC coverage available in the Program, and there can be no assurance that additional Priority Banks will be added or your FDIC insurance coverage will increase. A decrease in the number of Priority Banks in the future could decrease the potential FDIC coverage available in the Program.

You agree that Bank may make deposits and/or withdrawals to or from Program Banks set forth on the Bank List in order to process any transaction in connection with your Account or as otherwise determined by Bank, including to ensure sufficient funds in your Account.

If a Program Bank at which you have deposits no longer makes the Sub-Deposit Account(s) available through the Program, Bank may move funds to another Program Bank. If you elect to establish a direct relationship with a Program Bank, neither Service Provider nor Bank will have any further responsibility with respect to your Account. Unless you establish a direct depository relationship with the Program Bank, your funds will be transferred to another Program Bank on the Bank List on the day that the Program Bank leaves the Program.

vi. Deposit Procedures. You agree that, as your agent, we may open one or more Sub-Deposit Accounts on your behalf at one or more of the Program Banks on the then current Bank List. If we open an MMDA and/or a TA at a Program Bank, all deposits will be made into your MMDA and/or TA, subject to six (6) monthly withdrawal limits applicable to MMDA.

You agree that, as your agent, we may place your funds at one or more Program Banks. You agree that we will place your funds based on each Program Bank’s available capacity or other criteria, including rates paid by Program Banks on Sub-Deposit Accounts or fees paid to us. Please see the section titled “Waiver of Conflicts” for additional information. You understand and agree that deposit amounts in excess of the Deposit Limit at a Priority Bank and deposit amounts at an Excess Bank will not be insured by the FDIC.

Periodically, your previously deposited funds may be reallocated among the Program Banks on the Bank List based on each Program Bank’s available capacity or other criteria, including rates paid by Program Banks to us.

You understand and agree that it is your obligation to monitor your funds deposited at all Program Banks. You may email Service Provider at any time at support@step.com to determine your Sub-Deposit Account balances at each Program Bank.

vii. Withdrawal Procedures. You agree that all withdrawals will be made by us as your agent. Funds may be withdrawn from Program Banks based on a Program Bank’s available capacity or other criteria, including, but not limited to, rates or fees paid to Bank. Funds may also be withdrawn from Sub-Deposit Account to fund transactions associated with your Account or to ensure your Account maintains sufficient balance.

If you have an MMDA and a TA at a given Program Bank, all withdrawals will be made from the TA. If funds in the TA at a Program Bank from which funds are being withdrawn are insufficient, funds in the related MMDA at that Program Bank will be transferred to the TA, plus funds to maintain any TA minimum, or “threshold,” amount.

At any point during a month in which transfers from an MMDA at a Program Bank have reached a total of six (6), all funds will be transferred from that MMDA to the linked TA at the Program Bank until the end of the month. Deposits for the remainder of the month into this Program Bank will be made to the TA. At the beginning of the next month, funds on deposit in the TA will be transferred to the MMDA, minus any threshold amount to be maintained in the TA. The limits on MMDA transfers will not limit the number of withdrawals you can make from funds on deposit at a Program Bank or the amount of FDIC insurance coverage for which you are eligible.

Pursuant to federal banking regulations, the Program Banks may reserve the right to require seven (7) days’ prior written notice before you withdraw or transfer funds from an MMDA. The Program Banks have indicated that they have no present plans to exercise this right. TAs are not subject to this restriction. viii. Interest Rates Paid on Deposit Balances. You will not be paid interest on your Sub-Deposit Accounts. Your Account is not an interest-bearing account and you will not be paid interest or any other form of income on your funds held in any Account or Sub-Deposit Account. You agree that we and/or Service Provider may retain any payments made by Program Bank in connection with any funds placed under this Program Agreement.

ix. Waiver of Conflicts. You understand and agree that, as your agent, we may place any or all of your funds on deposit with us at one or more Program Banks in an amount determined in Bank’s sole discretion based on available capacity at the Program Bank or other criteria, including rates paid on deposits by the Program Bank or fees paid to Bank.

You understand and agree that Bank has no obligation to place funds into Program Banks to maximize the amount of deposit insurance available in excess of the Program Insurance Eligibility Limit on your funds or to maximize any interest rates that your funds may earn. Bank may place your funds in excess of the Program Insurance Eligibility Limit without regard to whether such funds may exceed the Deposit Limit at one or more Program Banks, even if your funds could be placed in one or more Program Banks in an amount less than the Deposit Limit.

You understand and agree that the Program Banks may pay us fees and that we have no obligation to share these fees with you. You understand and agree that we may financially benefit if we place your funds into a Program Bank in excess of the Deposit Limit when that Program Bank pays a greater amount of fees to us than other Program Banks that could increase the deposit insurance available to you. You further acknowledge and agree that each Program Bank may pay us a fee in connection with the placement of funds with the Program Bank, including for each Sub-Deposit Account. The fee may vary between banks. Your Account is not an interest-bearing account and you will not be paid interest or any other form of income on your funds held in any Account or Sub-Deposit Account. Even if we receive a fee from a Program Bank, you are not entitled to interest on your Sub-Deposit Account. For the avoidance of doubt, you authorize us to collect and retain all interest and other payments of income pertaining to the placement of your deposits at Program Banks, including funds in the Sub-Deposit Accounts. You further acknowledge that we and Program Banks may also receive other financial benefits in connection with the funds in your Sub-Deposit Accounts.

Our placement of funds in the Sub-Deposit Account may reflect considerations of federal and state law, our funding needs and funding needs of Program Banks, general economic conditions or other factors determined by us in our sole discretion. We may place funds to enhance our business objectives and for balance sheet management purposes without any benefit to you. Subject to applicable law, your only rights with respect to the Sub-Deposit Account are to demand that we repay you all amounts in your Account that were deposited with Bank and those transferred to the Sub-Deposit Account from your Account.

x. Information About Your Accounts. Although there are two or more accounts associated with your funds (the Account and the Sub-Deposit Account), your Account is treated as a single account for our reporting deposits and withdrawals, Transfers to and from the Sub-Deposit Account will not appear on your monthly statement.

D. YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH BANK AND THE PROGRAM BANKS

We will act as your agent and custodian in establishing the Sub-Deposit Accounts at each Program Bank, depositing funds into the Sub-Deposit Accounts, withdrawing funds from the Sub-Deposit Accounts and transferring funds among the Sub-Deposit Accounts.

Sub-Deposit Account ownership will be evidenced on the account records of each Program Bank (or by us on behalf of Program Bank) and by records maintained by us as your custodian. No evidence of ownership, such as a passbook or certificate will be issued to you. You may at any time obtain information about your Sub-Deposit Accounts by contacting us through the Service Provider at support@step.com.

You agree that all transactions with respect to your Sub-Deposit Accounts must be directed by us and all information concerning your Sub-Deposit Accounts must be obtained from Bank through Service Provider. You agree that the Program Banks have no obligation to accept instructions from you with respect to your Sub-Deposit Accounts or to provide you with information concerning your Sub-Deposit Accounts.

If you decide to terminate your participation in the Program, your termination will result in a return of funds in accordance with subsection F (Termination), below.

Each Sub-Deposit Account constitutes an obligation of a Program Bank and is not directly or indirectly our obligation. You can obtain publicly available financial information concerning each Program Bank at www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/nicweb/nichome.aspx, by contacting the FDIC Public Information Center by mail at L. William Seidman Center, Virginia Square, 3501 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22226, or by phone at 703-562-2200.

We do not guaranty in any way the financial condition of any Program Bank or the accuracy of any publicly available financial information concerning any Program Bank.

i. Fees. You understand and agree that each Program Bank will pay us a fee inconnection with the Program and we may pay Service Provider a fee in connection with its support of the Program. The fee may vary between banks. Even if we receive a fee from a Program Bank, you may not be entitled to such fee. There will be no other charges, fees or commissions for your participation in the Program.

In addition, other service providers may receive fees from each Program Bank or Bank and may receive a portion of the fee paid to us by the Program Banks.

ii. Changes to the Program. You agree that we may modify the terms and conditions of the Program, including changing, removing or adding Program Banks offered therein. All notices of material changes to the Program may be communicated by a posting on our website, letter, a separate electronic or written communication, a note on a periodic statement or other means..

E. INFORMATION ABOUT THE FDIC

i.Deposit Insurance: General. Your Sub-Deposit Accounts are insured by the FDIC, an independent agency of the U.S. Government, up to $250,000 for all deposits held in the same insurable capacity as recognized by the FDIC at any one bank. According to the FDIC, no depositor has ever lost a penny of FDIC-insured funds.

Your funds become eligible for FDIC insurance immediately upon placement into your Sub-Deposit Account at a Priority Bank. Generally, any accounts or deposits that you maintain directly with a particular bank, or through any other intermediary, in the same insurable capacity in which the accounts or deposits are maintained would be aggregated with the accounts or deposits for purposes of the $250,000 Deposit Limit.

You are responsible for monitoring the total amount of deposits that you hold with any one bank, directly or through an intermediary, in order to determine the extent of FDIC insurance coverage available to you on your deposits. We are not responsible for any insured or uninsured portion of any deposits.

In the event a Priority Bank fails, your funds in the Sub-Deposit Accounts at that Priority Bank are insured, up to $250,000, for principal and interest accrued to the day the Priority Bank is closed.

Under certain circumstances, if you become the owner of deposits at a Program Bank because another depositor dies, beginning six (6) months after the death of the depositor the FDIC will aggregate those deposits for purposes of the $250,000 Deposit Limit with any other deposits that you own in the same insurable capacity at the bank. Examples of deposit accounts that may be subject to this FDIC policy include joint accounts, “payable on death” accounts and certain trust accounts. The FDIC may provide a “grace period” to permit you to restructure your deposits to obtain the maximum amount of deposit insurance for which you are eligible.

In the event that FDIC deposit insurance payments become necessary, payments of deposits will be made to us as your custodian. There is no specific time period during which the FDIC must make insurance payments available. We will not be obligated to you for amounts not covered by deposit insurance nor will we be obligated to make any payments to you in satisfaction of a loss you might incur as a result of a delay in insurance payouts. We will not be obligated to credit your account with funds in advance of payments received from the FDIC.

Furthermore, you may be required to provide certain documentation to the FDIC before insurance payments are made. For example, if you hold deposits as trustee for the benefit of trust participants, you may be required to furnish affidavits and provide indemnities regarding an insurance payment.

If your balance in your Sub-Deposit Accounts are assumed by another depository institution pursuant to a merger or consolidation, such deposits will continue to be insured separately, up to the FDIC insurance coverage limits and subject to the terms hereunder, from the deposits that you might have established with the acquiring institution until (i) the maturity date of any time deposits (including certificates of deposit) that were assumed, or (ii) with respect to deposits that are not time deposits, the expiration of a period (up to a six (6) months) from the date of acquisition. Thereafter, any assumed deposits will be aggregated with your existing deposits with the acquiring institution held in the same capacity for purposes of FDIC insurance coverage. Any deposit opened at the acquiring institution after the acquisition will be aggregated with deposits established with the acquiring institution for purposes of FDIC insurance coverage.

If you have questions about basic FDIC insurance coverage, please contact us. You may wish to seek advice from your own attorney concerning FDIC insurance coverage of deposits held in more than one insurable capacity. You may also obtain information by contacting the FDIC, Deposit Insurance Outreach, Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection, by letter (550 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20429), by phone (877-275-3342 or 800-925-4618 (TDD)), by visiting the FDIC website at: https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/index.html, or by email using the FDIC’s Online Customer Assistance Form available on its website.

F. TERMINATION. Your participation in the Program may be terminated without penalty at any time at the option of either you or us. You may also opt-out of the Program at any time. Following opt-out or termination of your participation in the Program, we may, if applicable, transfer your funds in the Sub-Deposit Accounts at Program Banks to your Account, in which case any funds in excess of $250,000 in your Account will not be covered by FDIC insurance, or, at our sole discretion, terminate your Account and return your funds in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

G. MISCELLANEOUS.

If there is a conflict in terms set forth under this Program Agreement and the account agreement related to the Account, the account agreement controls to the extent the conflict relates to the Account.

This Program Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns; provided, however, you may not assign this Program Agreement to any person without Bank’s written consent.