Barclaycard terms and conditions

Barclaycard

Terms and

Conditions

Credit Card agreement regulated

by the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

1. Introduction

This agreement is between us (Barclays Bank UK PLC,

Barclaycard Centre, Northampton NN4 7SG) and you,

the person who signed this agreement. Barclaycard is a

trading name of Barclays Bank UK PLC.

These are the terms and conditions for your credit

card account. They will help explain how your

account works and other important things you need

to know. We hope you’ll find them clear and easy

to use. Please keep this document safe in case you

need to refer to it.

Credit Card agreement regulated by the Consumer

Credit Act 1974.

2. Your interest rates

We charge different interest rates on different balances.

Your simple standard and cash interest rates will move up

and down in line with changes to the Bank of England Base

Rate (or any rate which replaces it, we call this rate the

Base Rate). We will explain more about this in the ‘Changes

due to the Bank of England Base Rate’ section. When you

use your card, the relevant amount is added to a particular

balance, depending on the type of transaction you use the

card for.

We may also offer you promotions on your account,

which might result in different interest rates on your

‘promotional balance’. We will tell you the terms of any

promotions before they are available.

Main balance (does not include any

instalment plan balance) includes:

Interest rate

Standard balance – This is made up

of the following, unless promotional

terms apply instead:

• Purchases

• Balance transfers

• Money transfers (transfer of funds to

your current account)

• Interest and account usage fees on

the above, and default fees

(Your standard

rate can be

found on

your monthly

statement)

Cash balance – This is made up of

the following:

• Cash withdrawals (this includes any

fees other people or organisations

may charge for the withdrawal)

• Buying currency or travellers cheques

• Cash-like transactions, including:

– sending money orders or wire

transfers

– buying digital currencies, including

cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin

• Gaming transactions, including:

– gambling

– betting

– transactions relating to gaming

such as buying lottery tickets or

gaming chips, or spending on a

gambling website or at a gambling

establishment

• Interest and account usage fees on

all of the above

(Your cash rate

can be found on

your monthly

statement)

Main balance (does not include any

instalment plan balance) includes:

Interest rate

Promotional balance – This is made

up of the following:

• Transactions with promotional terms,

which we will tell you about before

you make the transaction such as:

– purchases

– balance transfers

– money transfers

• Interest and fees on the above

promotions

Depends on

the offer

Instalment plan balance includes: Interest rate

• Instalment plans – these are plans

that we may offer which allow

you to repay a balance in monthly

instalments over a period of time.

We will tell you about the terms

before you take up the offer

• Fees on instalment plans

0% per year

3. Fees that we charge

The fees that apply to your account are as follows:

We will charge you an amount to cover any other

reasonable costs or losses we must pay if you break

this agreement.

Fees that third parties may charge

We tell you about all the charges that we make, but using

your card may mean that you have to pay other amounts

to someone else. For example, some organisations may

charge an extra fee for credit card payments.

Account usage fees Amount

• Cash transaction (there is

no minimum fee for gaming

transactions)

• Non-sterling purchase

• Balance transfer or money transfer

• Instalment plan

2.99%

(minimum

of £2.99)

Your

Non-sterling

purchase rate

can be found on

your monthly

statement

Depends on

the offer

Depends on

the offer

Default fees Amount

• Late payment

• Over credit limit (for each month

you are over the credit limit)

£12

There is no maintenance fee for this account.

4. Monthly payment

We’ll send you a monthly statement to tell you what

the minimum amount you need to pay is and when the

payment is due.

You must pay at least your minimum payment in sterling

by the due date shown on your statement every month.

Remember – if you only make your minimum payment

each month it’ll take longer and cost more to pay off your

balance. You can always choose to pay more.

Your payment due date will be at least 20 days after we

produce your statement. You can ask us to change your

payment due date by asking us to change your statement

date. You cannot change your statement date if you have

changed it twice in the last 12 months, or you have

already changed it during the current or previous

statement period.

Your minimum payment will be the highest of the following:

• £5 (or the total outstanding balance if it’s less than £5)

• (A percentage

) of your main balance plus any instalment

plan payments due for that month (if you have any

instalment plans on your account)

• An amount equal to any interest, default fees or account

maintenance fees that have been added to your account

since your last statement, plus (a percentage

) of the rest

of your main balance plus any instalment plan payments

due for that month (if you have any instalment plans on

your account). Default fees and account maintenance

fees will only be included if the percentage referred to

above is 1%

This percentage is unchanged and can be found on your

monthly statement

However, if you have agreed to set up a paydown plan

(please see the ‘Paydown plans’ section, below), your

minimum payment will be your paydown plan payment

each month instead. This will be the same amount each

month (except for your final payment, which may be

smaller) until your paydown plan ends.

If you are on a reduced-repayment plan or arrangement,

during the plan or arrangement your minimum payment

will be the amount we have told you.

Any refunds you receive on your account will not count

towards your minimum payment amount. You must still

pay the full minimum payment unless the refund reduces

your balance to an amount which is less than your

minimum payment, in which case you will only have to

pay the remaining balance.

5. Your card

With your account, we’ll provide you with a card (or cards)

to use. By the word ‘card’, we mean any credit card (or

cards) or any alternative to a credit card that we provide

you with to make transactions under this agreement.

We tell you more about your card in the ‘Using your

account’ section of this agreement.

6. Credit limit

We set your credit limit according to your circumstances,

your account usage and history, information from other

parts of the Barclays group, information we receive from

credit reference agencies, and any other information we

think is relevant.

We’ll tell you what your credit limit is when we first open

your account. We’ll then review it from time to time.

If we change your credit limit, we’ll write to let you know.

We tell you more about your credit limit in the ‘Using your

account’ section of this agreement.

Legal information

Example of the total amount you would have to

pay and the annual percentage rate (APR)

We’ll tell you the total amount you would have to pay

and the APR when you first enter into the agreement

with us. This legal information is provided based on

assumptions we make at that time and isn’t relevant

to you afterwards.

7. Your interest charges

When we charge interest

If you pay your main balance (excluding any promotional

balance with a 0% interest rate) plus any instalment plan

payments due for that month in full by your payment due

date, the following will apply that month:

• We won’t charge interest on the following that have been

added to your account since your last statement:

– New purchases

– Non-sterling cash transactions (transactions made

in a foreign currency)

– Balance transfers which promotional interest rates

apply to

– Money transfers which promotional interest rates

apply to

• We will only charge interest on your outstanding balance

from your last statement (excluding sterling cash

transactions and related fees and interest) up to the

date of your current statement

For sterling cash transactions, we will always charge

interest from the date they’re added to your account to

the date you pay them off, even if you pay your total

outstanding balance in full by the payment due date.

Please remember that you must pay the minimum

payment by your payment due date to avoid losing any

promotional interest rates.

How we charge interest

We work out how much interest we charge each month

using a simple interest rate. Your interest is calculated

on a daily basis and added to your account each month

on the date we produce your statement. We will charge

interest on interest if you do not repay your total

outstanding balance in full each month (this is known

as compound interest).

If interest is due, we will charge it from the date each

amount is added to the account. Interest continues to

be charged on all outstanding balances until you pay

off your balance or a court orders you to pay off your

balance. This means that when an amount is overdue

for payment, we continue to charge interest at the rate

that applies to that particular balance.

Interest on default fees

Default fees are fees that we charge if you don’t make a

monthly payment on time, you go over your credit limit

or you make a payment to us which is later returned.

If we charge a default fee we will tell you in writing.

We don’t charge any interest on default fees for 28 days

starting from the time we tell you that the default fee is

being charged. Also, we don’t charge interest on

interest (compound interest) you’re already paying

on a default fee.

Understanding the interest and fees

on your account

• Please make sure you consider the interest and fees

that will be added to your account at the time of

producing your statement

• You should make sure you keep enough available

balance to not go over your credit limit when

these are added, otherwise an over credit limit

fee will apply

• To help you do this, an estimate of the interest that

will be charged the following month is included on

your statement

8. Changes due to the Bank of England

Base Rate

Your simple standard and cash interest rates will move

up and down in line with the Base Rate. If you’re a new

customer, this will start from the day after your account is

opened. You can find the current Base Rate on our website

or by calling customer services.

Your promotional or instalment plan interest rates will not

move in line with the Base Rate.

When changes take effect

If the Base Rate changes, your simple standard and cash

interest rates will change in line with the new Base Rate on

the day after your next statement date. Your statement

date is the date on which your monthly statement is

normally produced. We’ll tell you when this is after your

account is opened.

If you’re a new customer, any changes in the Base Rate

which take place before your first statement date will not

affect your simple standard and cash interest until the day

after your second statement date.

Telling you about changes to the Base Rate

Because your interest rates will move in line with the

Base Rate, we will send you a summary each year telling

you how the Base Rate has changed over the past year.

If you get monthly statements, you’ll be able to see the

information about the Base Rate changes on those.

If you or we close your account, we will not move your

interest rates in line with the Base Rate. You won’t be able

to make any further transactions on your account after

you tell us to close your account, and you must repay us

your outstanding balances within a reasonable period.

If the Bank of England Base Rate is no longer available

or changes significantly, we will decide whether it is

reasonable to replace it with another rate or whether to

make other changes to how we calculate interest.

9. Changes that we may make to your

standard and cash interest rates

As well as your simple standard and cash interest rates

moving up and down in line with the Base Rate, your

interest rate may change for the reasons set out below.

Any change that we make will be reasonably proportionate

to the effect the change has on us. We won’t change

interest rates to cover the same cost twice.

Changes due to risk

We may increase or decrease your interest rate (or rates)

based on the risk of lending to you. Some of the things

that may affect our decision are as follows:

• If you don’t keep to these terms and conditions, such as

failing to make your minimum payment by the payment

due date or going over your credit limit

• The way you manage and use your account or any other

account you have with us. We‘ll look at how you make

repayments, your repayment history, and how much of

your credit limit you use

• Information that we get from others such as credit

reference agencies, our own information and information

from within the Barclays Group

Changes due to legal or regulatory changes

We may change your interest rates, including making

changes to the way we charge interest, if there’s a change

in legal or regulatory requirements that affects us.

Changes for other reasons

As this contract has no fixed end date, we may from time to

time need to make changes for reasons that are not set out

here. As long as you can end this agreement without charge,

we may make changes to interest rates, or change the way

we charge interest for reasons that are not set out here.

Giving you notice of changes

If we make a change to your interest rates (other than

a change caused by the Base Rate) we’ll tell you about

the change and when it will apply. We will do this either

by including a message in your monthly statement or

by sending you a separate written notice by post, email,

online account servicing, text message or any other

written communication.

We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice unless we reduce

any of your interest rates in which case we may give you

less notice.

If you decide that you want to close your account after

the change takes place, you’ll need to contact us to let

us know.

If we increase one of your interest rates (and this is not

caused by a change to the Base Rate) and you tell us

within 60 days that you don’t accept this change and

want to end the agreement, the existing interest rate

will continue to apply until you repay your outstanding

balances. In this case you won’t be able to make any

further transactions on your account after you give

us notice that you don’t accept the change, and you

must repay us your outstanding balances within a

reasonable period.

10. Changes to your promotional and

instalment plan interest rates

We won’t change any promotional or instalment plan

rates during the time we’ve agreed to keep them fixed.

At the end of the promotional or instalment plan period,

we will transfer any outstanding balance to your standard

balance or your cash balance (as appropriate) and we will

start charging interest on it at your standard rate or any

cash rate that applies.

However, you can lose your promotional or instalment

plan interest rate before the end of the promotional or the

instalment plan period if you do not keep to the terms of

this agreement:

• With promotional rates, you will lose your rate if you

go over your credit limit, miss a monthly payment or

make an arrangement to pay less than your minimum

payment each month

• With instalment plan rates, you will lose your rate if

you miss two monthly payments in a row or make an

arrangement to pay less than your minimum payment

each month

If you lose your promotional rate or instalment plan rate,

we will transfer the outstanding balance to your standard

balance and we will start charging interest on it at your

standard rate immediately.

11. Changes to the other terms and

conditions (not including interest rates)

As well as the changes to interest rates described above,

we may make changes to other terms and conditions

of this agreement (including fees) for any of the

following reasons:

• If we reasonably consider that it makes the terms easier

to understand or fairer to you

• If we reasonably consider that the change will benefit

you or isn’t to your disadvantage and wouldn’t cost you

any more

• To reflect reasonable changes to the way we run our

business because of a change in the banking or financial

system, in technology, or in the systems we use

• To reflect legal or regulatory requirements that apply to us

Any change that we make will be reasonably proportionate

to the effect the change has on us. We won’t change or

introduce any fees to cover the same cost twice.

As this contract has no fixed end date, we may from time

to time need to make changes for reasons not set out

here. As long as you can end this agreement without

charge, we may make changes to this agreement for

reasons that are not set out here.

Giving you notice of changes

We’ll tell you about any changes under this section either

by including a message in your monthly statement or

by sending you a separate written notice by post, email,

online account servicing, text message or any other written

communication. We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice

unless the change is to your advantage, in which case we

may give you less notice.

If we make any changes under this section, we’ll let you

know when the changes will apply to your account.

If you want to end this agreement because of one of the

changes we make, you can do this without charge by

calling or writing to us. If you decide that you want to close

your account after these changes take place, you’ll need to

until the agreement ends. If you stop using your card,

changes that only apply if you use the card will not affect

you, but other changes will apply until you have repaid the

full balance.

12. Using your account

All cards are our property and you mustn’t use your

card for any illegal purposes or to make certain types of

transactions which we will tell you about from time to time.

Your card is for personal use and you shouldn’t use it for

business purposes. If we’re worried your card is being

misused, we can put a stop on it.

When your account is first opened we may send you

account information, such as your account number, so

that you can start making limited transactions before

your card arrives. You can also ask us to make a balance

transfer (this is a transfer of funds from your card to

reduce the amount you owe on other credit cards, store

cards or loans) or a money transfer (a transfer of funds

from your card to a bank account in your name) straight

away. When you receive your card, we may ask you to

activate it before using it to make transactions.

Managing your credit limit

If we reduce your credit limit based on an assessment of

risk or your ability to repay, we have the right to not give

you any notice beforehand if we think this would not be

appropriate. (However, we may choose to give you up to

seven days’ notice.) We won’t reduce your credit limit to less

than your total outstanding balance, plus any transactions

authorised but not yet charged to your account.

In some cases we may allow an increase in your credit limit

for a short period, which we will tell you. If we do this, we

will reduce your limit back down at the end of that period,

even if that reduces your limit to less than your total

outstanding balance. We won’t charge you an over credit

limit fee in these circumstances.

You can choose whether or not you want to allow us to

increase the credit limit on your account. If we increase

your credit limit, we’ll always tell you first and give you 30

days’ notice unless you’ve asked for the increase yourself.

When you receive this notice you can tell us not to increase

your credit limit. If you prefer, you can tell us that we must

always check with you before increasing your credit limit.

You can also tell us not to increase your credit limit at

any time in the future or tell us at any time if you want to

reduce your credit limit. We won’t increase your credit limit

if we think you can’t afford to make the repayments.

You must not go over your credit limit, but if you do you’ll

have to pay an over credit limit fee. We will move any

remaining promotional balances on your account back

to your standard balance and charge interest at your

standard rate. Your credit records may also be affected

– meaning it may be harder or more expensive for you to

borrow in the future.

Giving you another card

We may send you another card as a replacement or extra

card at any time. It may have different features from your

existing card, including a different number, branding or

card scheme. We might also send you another card or

upgrade your account to give you extra benefits.

13. Making transactions

You can use your card to make transactions such as cash

withdrawals, purchases, balance or money transfers and

any other use that we allow, including using another service

provider to make an online payment on your behalf, with

your permission.

If you want to make a transaction using your card or card

details, you’ll need to approve it so that we can check it’s

genuine. You can do this using one of the following:

• The card itself

• A password, passcode, personal identifier, codes,

personal identification number (PIN), biometric data

such as voice recognition or behavioural data (including

how you usually make your transactions, the type of

transactions you usually make and how often you

make them)

• A combination of the above, such as your card and PIN

How we authorise your transactions

When deciding whether we should authorise a transaction

or not, we take into account amounts of money that have

already been authorised but haven’t already been added

to your account and interest, fees or charges that you

might have to pay.

When you make a transaction from your account,

we’re not able to change or cancel it unless you withdraw

your approval. You can only do this if the transaction is

approved for a future date (for example, if you set up a

regular payment) by contacting us or the retailer by the

end of the business day before the transaction is due to

be made.

If you contact us to cancel a regular payment, you may

also want to contact the retailer to ask them to stop

requesting payments. We’ll try our best to stop the

transaction from going through – but if for any reason it’s

taken after you’ve asked for it not to be, we’ll refund the

amount and any related interest or fees.

When we may refuse transactions

We may refuse to authorise a transaction if any of the

following applies:

• The transaction seems unusual compared with the way

you normally use your card

• We reasonably suspect fraud or illegal activity

• You’ve reported your card as lost or stolen

• We reasonably consider this is necessary to protect the

security of your account

• We reasonably believe the transaction would damage

our reputation

• We have told you that we do not allow that type of

transaction

• We need to restrict the use of your account for any of

the reasons set out below

Also, we may refuse a transaction if there’s a risk you’ll

go over either your credit limit or your cash limit. By ‘cash

limit’ we mean the limit on the value of transactions that

get allocated to your cash balance. This may not be the

same as your credit limit. If we authorise a transaction that

would take you over your cash limit or your credit limit,

it doesn’t mean we’ve agreed to an increase in your limit.

If you go over your credit limit, you’ll have to pay an over

credit limit fee.

If we refuse a transaction but you’re not sure why, you can

get in touch with us to find out. If we refuse a transaction,

this agreement will continue, and we won’t be responsible

for any loss or damages caused as a result.

Restricting the use of your account

We may prevent or limit the use of your account, stop

service providers from making payments on your behalf,

or end your ability to borrow more under this agreement,

if we reasonably consider this is necessary for any of the

following reasons:

• To protect the security of your account

• Because we’re worried there may be unauthorised or

fraudulent use of your account

• Because the risk of you not paying any current or future

balance on your account has significantly increased

• Because we believe you no longer live at the address we

have on record for you, which means we may not be able

to contact you

• Because allowing you to use your account means we

may break a law, regulation, code or other duty that

applies to us, or could expose us or other Barclays

companies to action or criticism from any government,

regulator or law-enforcement organisation

• You have used a feature of your account to tell us that

you do not want to make future transactions or a certain

type of transaction

• You have set up a paydown plan

• You have been in persistent debt (where you’ve paid

more in interest, fees and charges than you have paid

towards paying back what you’ve borrowed) for two

consecutive 18-month periods, and you have not yet

repaid your balance

• You have set up a paydown plan on another account with

us, but you have not kept to the terms and conditions of

that plan

We’ll get in touch with you by phone, email or post to tell

you this has happened as soon as we can.

Transaction limits

If you use your card to withdraw cash, we might limit the

number of these transactions or the amount you can

withdraw on any day. We might also restrict your cash

limit to a certain percentage of your overall credit limit.

If you’ve got a contactless card, this will have a maximum

contactless limit. For each of these limits, we’ll let you

know what they are and when they change.

Making transactions in a foreign currency

Non-sterling transactions will be converted to sterling at a

reference exchange rate. For purchases this is made up of

the payment scheme exchange rate and the non-sterling

purchase fee. For cash transactions, the non-sterling

purchase fee is not included.

The payment scheme exchange rate will be the Visa

exchange rate. This is the rate that applied on the date

Visa processed the non-sterling transaction, which may

be different from the rate when the transaction took place.

The payment scheme exchange rate changes daily −

please visit our website or get in touch with us to find out

this rate.

Refunds

If you’ve agreed that a retailer in the European Economic

Area can take a payment from your account (for example,

if you’ve given your card details to a retailer for the

purpose of making a payment), you can ask us to refund

a payment if all of the following conditions apply:

• The approval you gave didn’t specify the exact amount

to be paid

• The amount charged to your account was more

than you could reasonably have expected to pay,

based on circumstances including your previous

spending patterns

• You make the refund request within eight weeks of the

date when the payment was charged to your account

You must give us any information we ask for that’s

reasonably necessary for us to investigate whether or not

you’re entitled to the refund. When we refund a payment

we’ll also refund any related interest, fees and charges.

We’ll only refund any other transaction that you’ve

approved if the retailer asks us to.

You won’t be able to use a claim against the retailer

(or anyone else) to make a claim against us, or to refuse

to pay us. However, this doesn’t affect your rights under

Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (or any

replacement act or rule).

Section 75 of the Consumer Credit

Act 1974

Your rights under Section 75 mean that if you use

your card to buy goods or services, and the cost of an

individual item is between £100 and £30,000, if you

have a claim against the supplier for misrepresentation

or breaking the terms of any contract you have with

them, you can bring the same claim against us.

Transferring a balance

If you ask us to make a balance transfer or a money

transfer, you must make sure that the details you provide

about the other account are clear and accurate.

If we believe there is a risk of money being sent to the

wrong place because the details are unclear or inaccurate,

we won’t make the transfer for you. If the money is sent to

the wrong place because you gave us the wrong details,

we’ll try to help you get your money back. But if we

can’t do that, you can ask us to give you all the relevant

information that we have so you can try to recover the

money yourself.

If we make a mistake with your transfer, we’ll refund you

the full transfer amount and any other related interest,

fees and charges.

If you ask us to make a transfer on a working day before the

cut-off time, the payment will reach the receiving bank on

the next working day. We will tell you the cut-off time when

you ask for a balance transfer. If you make the request on

a non-working day or after the cut-off time, we’ll process

it on the next working day and the payment will reach the

receiving bank on the next working day after that.

This will be the case unless you’ve agreed to make the

payment on a future date, in which case the payment will

reach the receiving bank the next working day after the

date you’ve agreed with us.

Please bear in mind that you cannot transfer a balance

to or from another credit card account held with us (this

includes our partner-branded cards).

14. How instalment plans work

From time to time we may offer you an instalment plan

which, for a one-off fee, allows you to repay a balance in

monthly instalments over a period of time. When you create

an instalment plan, we’ll move the relevant amount from

your main balance to your instalment plan balance in line

with the terms of your instalment plan offer. We will tell you

the fee, and other key terms, before you take up the offer.

Creating an instalment plan

If we tell you that a balance (a purchase or other amount)

on your account qualifies for an instalment plan, for a

limited period you will be able to move that balance to a new

instalment plan.

To find out whether a balance on your account qualifies for

an instalment plan offer, you can check your account online

or you can contact customer services. We may also send

you information about offers that are open to you from

time to time.

We will charge you a fee for creating an instalment plan and

we will add this to your instalment plan. The amount of the

fee will depend on the terms of the particular offer.

When we make you an instalment plan offer we’ll allow you

to repay the instalment plan over an agreed period, in line

with the terms of your offer. We’ll split the instalment plan

over the length of the term you have chosen to calculate

your monthly instalment plan payments. If you make all of

your payments on time you will repay your instalment plan

by the end of the term.

Repaying or ending an instalment plan

Your instalment plan may end if:

• you cancel it

• you repay it early, or

• you lose it

If your instalment plan is cancelled, we will tell you about

any change to your minimum payment.

If you make a payment which is more than your main

balance and your instalment plan instalment due for that

month, you’ll make an instalment plan overpayment.

Any instalment plan overpayment you make will be used

to reduce your future instalment plan payments.

First we’ll use any overpayment to pay off your last

monthly instalment plan payment, followed by your

second-to-last monthly payment and so on. This could

mean that the instalment plan will end early.

If the instalment plan ends early, we’ll refund part of

the fee you paid when you created the instalment plan.

The refund will be based on the number of full instalment

plan payments you no longer have to make.

15. Paydown plans

If we have written to tell you that you are in, or have been

in, persistent debt, we may offer you a paydown plan.

A paydown plan is intended to help you pay the amount

you owe over a period of up to four years.

Before you take out the paydown plan we will tell you

about any changes to your interest rates. While you are on

the plan we will not increase your interest rates and they

will not change in line with the Bank of England Base Rate.

Your paydown plan will cover the total amount that you

owe at the time you take out the plan. All of the balances

on your account will be included in the paydown plan.

Your payments will reduce your balances in the same

order as before you took out the paydown plan. Any

transactions that are added to your account after the

paydown plan is set up will not form part of the plan and

you will have to repay them after your paydown plan ends.

If you take out a paydown plan, your minimum payment

will change from your next statement. Your new minimum

payment amount will be the same each month and will be

set at a level that will allow you to repay all of the balances

which are part of your paydown plan over the period of the

plan. While you are on the paydown plan, you can choose

to pay more than your minimum payment to reduce the

length of your paydown plan, and you can repay your

balance in full at any time.

You can cancel the paydown plan at any time within six

months of it starting. If you want to do this, you must tell

us using the contact details in the ‘Getting in touch’ section

below. If you cancel your plan, your minimum payment will

no longer be your paydown plan payment. From your next

statement we will start calculating your minimum payment

in the normal way. If you do not cancel your paydown

plan, it will end when you have repaid all of the balances

which are covered by it.

All of the other terms and conditions of this agreement will

remain the same, so at the end of the paydown plan (or if

you cancel the paydown plan), your credit card agreement

will carry on.

16. Paying your bill

All payments you make to us must be in sterling, cover at

least your minimum payment and arrive by the payment

due date every month. To help make this as easy as

possible, your monthly statement will tell you exactly how

and when to make payments so they reach us on time.

As this is a credit agreement, you should not keep money in

your account. For this reason, you need to make sure that

you don’t pay more than your total outstanding balance

(which would create a ‘positive balance’). If you do have a

positive balance, we can return that balance to you, rather

than leaving it in the account. If you have a Barclays current

account, you authorise us to return the balance to that

account. If you do not have a Barclays current account,

you authorise us to return any positive balance to the same

current account you use to pay your bill. We will write to you

before transferring the money to give you the opportunity

to ask us to return the balance to a different account.

Statements and other information

We’ll produce a monthly statement that shows the

transactions made since your last statement and what

payment is due to us that month. We may also give you

notices that we must give you by law in your statement.

These notices could be about overdue payments, default

fees that have been added to your account, or a change

that we need to make to this agreement.

As well as your statement and the notices which may be

included in it, we will also provide you with information

about your agreement with us. This information includes

copies of your terms and conditions. If we have agreed to

do so, we will provide this information and your statement

in the account servicing section of our website or app.

We’ll tell you when your statement (and other information)

is ready to view. You will then be able to access it by logging

in to your online account, or by using our app. We’ll also

send your statement (and other information) by post or

email if you choose to receive information in those ways.

Once we have sent you a notice or other message using

your most recent contact details, we’ll assume that you have

received it.

If we can’t produce a statement for any reason, we’ll use

your normal statement date to work out your next payment

date and any interest to be added, and let you know what

it is. You’ll need to get in touch with us straight away if you

think we’ve made a mistake on your statement.

If you choose to have only paperless communications from

us, you agree that the documents we provide electronically

can be in PDF or another format which allows you to print

or save the document to refer to in the future. We will not

change any documents which we provide electronically.

You should print or save your online statements for your

records. If we only produce a document in the account

servicing section of our website or app, we will tell you when

it is ready to view.

How we allocate payments

If a payment you make is less than your total outstanding

balance as shown on your statement, we’ll use it as follows:

• If you have any instalment plans on your account, to

make any instalment plan payments due for that month

• To reduce your main balance (your statement balance

less any instalment plan balance). We’ll start with the

balances charged at the highest interest rate first and

then reduce the lower-rate balances. If you have more

than one promotional balance at the same interest rate,

we’ll use your payment to reduce the balance with the

promotional rate that ends first

• If you have any instalment plans on your account, to

reduce any remaining instalment plan balance. If you

have more than one instalment plan, we’ll use your

payment to reduce the instalment plan that ends first

If the standard balance includes default fees, we will pay

those off before the rest of the standard balance.

When you make a payment, we will always reduce the

balances that appear on your statement before we use

your payment to reduce the value of transactions that have

not yet appeared on your statement.

Missed payments

If you miss your minimum payment we’ll add a late

payment fee to your account. You can miss your minimum

payment by not making a payment, by only paying part

of your minimum payment or by making your payment

late (after the payment due date). If you miss a payment,

the following will also apply to your account:

• We will move any remaining promotional balances on

your account to your standard balance (or cash balance

as appropriate) and charge interest at the standard or

cash rate that applies

• You may not be eligible for offers or promotions.

• We may take the payment from any other Barclays

accounts you have

• Your records with credit reference agencies may be

affected, meaning it may be harder or more expensive

for you to borrow in the future

If you miss two payments in a row, we will cancel any

instalment plans on your account and move any remaining

instalment plan balance to your standard balance and

charge interest at your standard rate.

If you’ve missed a payment, your next statement will ask

for the overdue amount as well as your next minimum

payment. We may move overdue amounts from previous

statements to the new balance on your next statement

to help you manage your account. These amounts will no

longer be overdue and will not show as overdue amounts

on your statement. When you do make a payment, we’ll

use this to pay off overdue payments first.

If you’re having difficulty making payments, or if you think

you’re likely to struggle making payments in the future,

please get in touch with us as soon as you can.

Missing payments could lead to legal action or insolvency

proceedings such as bankruptcy (although we rarely need

to take these actions).

We may also sell your debt on to another organisation.

If you have other accounts with Barclays, we may use

money in those accounts to pay us.

Offsetting

If we owe you money, we may offset that amount against

(use it to reduce) balances owed to us across this and

other accounts.

17. Additional cardholders

You can ask us to give an additional card for your account

to any eligible person you nominate. By ‘additional card’ we

mean any card (or cards) we give to additional cardholders

under this agreement.

Your additional cardholders will not be able to ask us for

information about your account. Additional cardholders do

not have full access to the services you have as the main

account holder.

As the account holder, you’ll always be responsible for

paying the total outstanding balance on your account,

and any use of the card by an additional cardholder – so

you need to make sure all additional cardholders are aware

of this agreement and keep to it. You can tell us to cancel an

additional card, and you should destroy the card.

18. Protecting your card and details

You must always keep your card and its details safe,

and make sure no-one else can use them without your

permission. You should memorise your PIN and other

security information and keep them secret at all times.

Never write them down or record them in any way without

first disguising the information. It’s also important that

you never let anyone else see your PIN, so please securely

destroy any letter with it on.

You must only ever reveal the card number to make a

transaction, access your account, to report the loss or

theft of the card, or if we ask you to.

We’ll never call you to ask you for your passwords or full

security details. We’ll also never ask you to withdraw or

hand over cash, or transfer money to another account.

When you call us or we call you, we’ll always first check

we’re speaking to the right person by asking you several

security questions associated with your account.

Lost or stolen cards

If your card or card details are lost or stolen, if you think

they may be misused, or if you think someone else may

know your PIN, the first thing you need to do is contact us

as soon as possible. We’ll then put a stop on the card and

you won’t be able to use the card again.

You won’t be responsible for any transactions made with

your card if it’s lost, stolen or misused before you receive

it, but you must tell us as soon as you become aware of

a problem.

If someone uses a card and they received it with either

your or any additional cardholder’s permission, you may

be liable for all the transactions that take place until you

tell us that it is being misused. You won’t be liable if you

or any additional cardholder hasn’t given permission for

someone else to have the card. If you find your card again

after reporting it as lost or stolen, please destroy it.

When you get in touch with us to tell us that your card

has been lost, stolen or misused, you must give us all the

information you have about it. We may pass any of this

information on to the police if we think it’ll be useful.

If your card is lost or stolen, please contact us:

• 01604 230230

• Barclaycard, PO Box 9131, 51 Saffron Road,

Leicester, LE18 9DE

Please keep your contact information up to date so

that we can contact you in the case of suspected fraud.

19. Closing your account

When you first open your account you can withdraw

from this agreement without giving a reason by calling or

writing to us within 14 days from the day after you receive

your first card. Once you’ve told us you’re withdrawing

from this agreement, you’ll have 30 days to pay back

anything you’ve spent on your card. You can do this by

calling us on the number in the ‘Getting in touch’ section

below. If you don’t repay us within 30 days, we may

charge interest in line with the terms of this agreement.

This agreement has no fixed term. This means it will

continue until you or we decide to close your account.

You can close the account by calling or writing to us,

and we can close the account by writing to you. Unless we

are closing your account for one of the reasons below,

we’ll give you at least two months’ written notice.

We may close your account and require immediate

repayment of your total outstanding balance for the

reasons below:

• If we reasonably believe that you’ve broken this

agreement regularly or seriously

• If you have acted fraudulently

• If the Home Office tells us that you have become a

‘disqualified person’ due to your immigration status

• If you become bankrupt (or enter into a voluntary

arrangement with your creditors) or if we believe this is

likely to happen

• If you die (in this case, we may ask your estate to make

the repayment)

We’ll always follow any legal requirements before we take

any of these steps.

If you or we close your account, the following will apply:

• You’ll need to make all payments that are due on

your account. We’ll fix the interest rates so they

don’t change as a result of the Base Rate changes.

• No further payments will be made from your account

so you’ll need to cancel any regular payments and

make other arrangements to pay.

• You will not be able to reopen your account and so

you should destroy all cards

This agreement will continue until you’ve paid everything

you owe, including amounts added to your account after

the notice to close. You can repay all or part of the balance

at any time.

Transferring this agreement

We may transfer to any other person any or all of our rights

and duties under this agreement at any time (including,

without limitation, our duty to lend to you). We may do this

without telling you. Your rights under this agreement and

your legal rights (including those under the Consumer

Credit Act 1974) will not be affected. You won’t be able to

transfer any rights you have against us to anyone else.

20. Account maintenance fee refund

If you have to pay a yearly account maintenance fee and

you close your account because we have removed or

changed a benefit that came with your card and this has a

negative effect on you, we will refund part of the account

maintenance fee. We will calculate the refund from the date

you tell us you want to close your account.

We will also refund part of the account maintenance fee

if we close your account for a reason other than you

breaking this agreement repeatedly or seriously. We will

calculate the refund from the date we close your account.

Any refund we give you will be a fair proportion of the full

yearly account maintenance fee, and will depend on the

date your account closes. If you have to pay a monthly

maintenance fee for your account, we will not refund any

of the fee.

21. Getting in touch

We’ll only ever communicate with you in English.

If you ever need to get in touch with us for any reason,

you can contact us:

• Online at barclaycard.co.uk

• Over the phone on 0800 151 0900 (from a landline)

or 0333 200 9090 (from a mobile)

• By post at Barclaycard, PO Box 9131, 51 Saffron Road,

Leicester, LE18 9DE

If your request needs written confirmation, we may

ask you to write to us.

Changing your details

Please keep us up to date with the name, residential

address, email address, landline number, mobile number,

nationality and date of birth for you and your additional

cardholders (who must be based in the British Isles).

If you (or any additional cardholders) are living overseas,

please let us know so that we can contact you.

Please note that if we need to send you any letters by law

or under any regulations that apply, we will continue to

send these to your residential address in the UK.

We may close your account if you are living overseas

or if you ask us to communicate with you using a Post

Office box address. We will give you notice in line with

these terms and conditions if we do this. We will always

communicate with you using the most recent contact

details you have given us. We are not responsible if you

don’t receive information because you haven’t told us

about a change to your contact details.

If things go wrong

Please get in touch with us straight away if you think there’s

anything wrong with your account. We’ll let you know if

there’s a fraud or security risk to your account by sending

you a secure message, emailing, writing or calling you.

If we don’t meet our obligations under this agreement

due to events outside of our control – such as machine

failure, industrial disputes or because we have to keep to a

relevant law – we won’t be responsible for any losses and

costs caused.

Making a complaint

To make a complaint, please contact us using the above

phone number or address. If anything’s unclear or if you’re

unhappy with the way we handle your complaint, please

get in touch with the person or department who handled

your complaint and they’ll do everything they can to

answer your questions and reach an agreement.

If you’re still unhappy and you’ve received a final response

letter from us, you can ask for a review from the Financial

Ombudsman Service. You can use the details below to

contact and find out more information on how to use the

Financial Ombudsman Service.

The Financial Ombudsman Service

• The Financial Ombudsman Service, Exchange Tower,

London E14 9SR

• 0800 023 4567 (from a landline) or

0300 123 9123 (from a mobile)

• complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk

• www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

Governing law

The law of England and Wales applies to these terms.

Any dispute about this agreement can be dealt with by

an English or Welsh court unless your address is in:

• Scotland (where it will be dealt with by the courts

of Scotland)

• Northern Ireland (where it will be dealt with by the

courts of Northern Ireland)

About us

We’re authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct

Authority (12 Endeavour Square, Stratford, London,

E20 1JN) to carry out activities relating to consumer credit.

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This information is available in

large print, Braille and audio,

by calling 0800 161 5326

(via Next Generation Text Relay

if appropriate).

Barclaycard also welcomes calls via SignVideo

for BSL users. For more information

visit barclaycard.co.uk/accessibility

All Barclaycard customer service lines are non-premium rate numbers.

Calls to 0800 numbers are free from UK landlines and personal mobiles,

otherwise call charges may apply. Please check with your service

provider. Calls may be monitored or recorded in order to maintain high

levels of security and quality of service.

Barclaycard is a trading name of Barclays Bank UK PLC. Barclays

Bank UK PLC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority

and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential

Regulation Authority (Financial Services Register number: 759676).

Registered in England No. 9740322. Registered Office: 1 Churchill Place,

London E14 5HP. Barclays Bank UK PLC adheres to The Standards

of Lending Practice which are monitored and enforced by the

LSB: www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk