Important Legal & Regulatory Information

 

Risk Warnings and Terms and Conditions of Access to this Website

There are certain legal and regulatory limitations that apply to the information contained on this website and by reading this you are deemed to have read and understood this warning.

By accessing any of the pages on this website, you agree to be bound by the Terms below which may be amended without notice. Your continued use of this website after any changes will mean that you accept such changes. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not access any pages of this website.

Product and Service Availability

The information contained on these pages is intended for persons who are New Zealand residents for tax and investment purposes. In particular the information is not for distribution and under no circumstances is it to be considered as an offer or solicitation to deal in investments in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or distribution would be unlawful including, but not limited to, the United States of America.

Advice

This site and its contents are not intended as an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities or any other specific investment or banking product, nor do they constitute a personal recommendation. For further information regarding all services referred to in this website, please contact ABP Services at the address found in the Contact section. Relevant information will be supplied on request.

No information on this website should be construed as tax advice or investment advice on the suitability of any products or services of ABP Services. If you are in any doubt, you are advised to consult a professional financial adviser.

Investment Risk Warnings

Investment in any scheme described should only be made on the basis of a full comprehension of the applicable offer document (e.g. Prospectus or other Terms and Conditions). The information contained on this website is not to be reproduced, copied or made available to others. Any research or analysis used in the preparation of this website has been procured by ABP Services for its own use and it may have been acted on by ABP Services for its own purposes.

You should be aware that past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The price of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and may be affected by exchange rate movements between currencies. An investor may not get back the original amount invested.

Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the information contained in this website is accurate and up to date, some of the information may be rendered inaccurate by changes in applicable laws and regulations. For example, the levels and bases of taxation may change. Any reference to taxation relies upon information currently in force.

Warrants involve a high degree of gearing and, therefore, volatility. This means that a relatively small movement in the price of a security to which a warrant relates may result in a disproportionately large movement, favourable as well as unfavourable, in the value of the warrant. You should not invest in warrants unless you understand the extent of your exposure to potential loss which may involve some or all of your initial investment.

Unquoted investments may be difficult to sell at a reasonable price because there will not be an active market in those investments and, in some circumstances, they may be difficult to sell at any price. This may inhibit sales in the event of your wishing to liquidate part or all of your existing investment.

Property is an asset class which can be difficult to sell, which means that you may not be able to sell the investment when you want and we may have to delay acting on your instructions to sell. The value of property is generally a matter of a valuer’s opinion rather than fact.

Full details on specific risk associated with any investments are detailed in the relevant Prospectus or Terms and Conditions and are available on request.

Communications

Telephone calls between you and ABP Services and its subsidiaries may be recorded in order to maintain and improve service.

E-mail messages may not be secure and may be intercepted by third parties. If you send to us an email containing confidential information about you, you agree that you do so at your own risk and that you hold ABP Services harmless from any loss that you may suffer as a result.

Content of the Website

Whilst ABP Services uses all reasonable skill and care in compiling the information contained in this website, errors or omissions may occur because of factors inherent in internet systems, e.g. unauthorised access or hardware, software or operator error or malfunction in data transmission.

ABP Services believes that the information on this website is accurate at the date of publication but no warranty of accuracy is given and it may change the website at any time without notice and without obligation to update the information. ABP Services accepts no liability to any third party for any error or omission.

Trademarks

This website contains names and logos which are trademarks of ABP Services. Unauthorised use of any of these trademarks is forbidden.

Ownership and Copyright

Unless indicated otherwise, all information and images are the property of ABP Services. Users of the website may print, copy, download or temporarily store information from this website for their personal use but all intellectual and other property information shall remain the property of ABP Services and no rights in it shall be transferred to users.

Data Protection

ABP Services will act as data controller (and in certain circumstances, data processor) within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “DPA”). Such data may also be used by ABP Services and its agents to update customer records and to advise customers of other products and services, unless the customer has indicated otherwise to ABP Services.

Privacy Policy

ABP Services and its agents will keep confidential information provided by you, except for information that ABP Services is entitled or bound to disclose under compulsion of law, or where requested by regulatory agencies, or to their professional advisers where reasonably necessary for the performance of their professional services.

Use of cookies

Regulations require us to bring the important information on this page to your attention when you visit this website. We comply with this requirement by directing you to this page and asking you, if you have not already done so, to click on either link shown at the bottom of the page as verification that you have read the information. When you do this a "cookie" is stored on your computer, and is used solely to avoid you being re-directed to this page at your next visit to the site. A "cookie" is a small file, containing a line of code, stored temporarily on your hard drive and is erased after a fixed period of time. None of your personal data is sought, obtained or stored by this process.

Linking

ABP Services does not accept responsibility for content of other websites not operated by ABP Services which may be accessed by a link from this website. You must not provide a link from another website to this website without prior written approval from ABP Services.

Computer Viruses

You must not transmit any virus or item of destructive nature to this website and it is your responsibility to ensure that what you download or use from this website is free from such items.

Complaints

An outline of ABP Services complaint handling procedures is available upon request.

Compensation

A statement is available from ABP Services explaining your rights to compensation under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, if ABP Services is unable to meet its liabilities.

Governing Law

This website is governed by the laws of New Zealand. On accessing the website, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.