Personal Data Protection
AHAM Capital (“AHAM”) herby gives you notice pursuant to Section 7 of the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) as follows:
Information may be collected at any time and from time to time by AHAM that relates directly or indirectly to you and/or your account. Such information shall be processed by AHAM or on behalf of AHAM by a third party service provider for the purposes of the provision of the services to you as well as for administration, marketing, customer services, risk profiling, improving AHAM’s services to you, maintaining and updating your records. The Information may also be processed for the purposes of complying with applicable laws, including anti-money laundering laws and regulations.
Such Information is sourced from and may include, but is not limited to, information provided by you, or someone acting on your behalf, details of orders placed and trades entered by you, other transactions conducted by you through or in connection with our online portal, other information concerning you that AHAM may receive from your use of our online portal, or any associated website, but excluding security details, information obtained about you through checks which we may perform prior to or during your use of our services, and information regarding you that we may receive from any relevant third party providing services to us (collectively referred to as “Information”).
For the above purposes, AHAM may disclose the Information to:-
- Our directors, officers and dealer’s representatives for purposes relating to your application and use of our services/products;
- Our related, associated or affiliated companies;
- Regulatory bodies such as Bank Negara Malaysia, Securities Commission, Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, clearing house and other regulatory bodies which have oversight over us and our activities;
- Any third party service provider, agent or contractors who have been appointed by us to provide services to us whether in or outside Malaysia subject to sufficient security controls over the information;
- Our auditors, lawyers, consultants and other advisors;
- Parties authorised by you; and
- Any other party to whom such disclosure is required by law or regulatory requirement or pursuant to a Court order.
To enable AHAM to accept and process your account opening application, administration of your account and for anti-money laundering purposes. AHAM may affect searches in relation to you.
You have the right to request a copy of the Information that AHAM holds that relates directly to you or your account (for which AHAM may charge a nominal fee) and to correct inaccuracies in such Information.
You are required to provide the information as requested in this application to be processed by or on behalf of AHAM as described above. If you do not agree to supply the information to AHAM in accordance with this notice, AHAM will not be able to provide you with AHAM’s services and/or open an account for you. If you have any enquiries or complaints, you may contact AHAM by phone at 03-2116 6000 or via email at customercare@aham.com.my
To make sure we follow your instructions correctly and to improve our service to you through training of our staff, AHAM may monitor or record all communications.
If you are a corporation supplying personal data of your directors, shareholders and/or officers to us, please do ensure that you have obtained their consent and bring our Privacy Notice to the attention of your directors, shareholders and/or officers whose personal data you are supplying/have been supplied to us.
- I/We hereby consent, permit and authorise AHAM, and its employees, agents and authorised officers:
- To have access to and/or to obtain and/or to extract any information and or documents whatsoever and however described relating to me/us (“Customer Information”) from any source whatsoever;
- To carry out the necessary checks for compliance with anti-money laundering laws, at AHAM’s sole discretion without further reference to me/us; and
- To maintain and update records of my investments with AHAM and disclosing all or any of information on my/our investments to the person(s) authorised by me/us in writing.
- I/We hereby irrevocably consent, permit and authorise AHAM to provide information about me/us and/or my/our account, including but not limited to the type of investments, transactions and balance to:
- The subsidiaries, holding companies, related corporations and associates (the term “related corporations” is as defined in the Companies Act 2016 or the equivalent legislation in a foreign jurisdiction) of the Company in and outside of Malaysia (collectively the “Interested Parties” and each an “Interested Party”) whether present or future notwithstanding that an Interested Party’s principal place of business may be outside of Malaysia.
- AHAM’s officers and employees (for accounting and other purposes, including marketing further services to me);
- Bank Negara Malaysia, Securities Commision, Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, clearing house and other regulatory bodies, as and when required.
- I/We hereby acknowledge and agree that such information may be processed by AHAM or on its behalf by third party service providers.
- I/We hereby agree that neither AHAM nor its employees or authorised officers or agents will be responsible for the accuracy, correctness, completeness, timeliness or sequence of my/our account balance, nor are they liable for any delays in delivering my account balance or any part thereof to me/us.
I/We have read and clearly understood the terms and notices in relation to the protection of personal data above and in the Privacy Notice of AHAM, and hereby inscribe my/our signature as an attestation of my/our agreement and acknowledgement of the terms therein.