Privacy Notice
Affin Bank Berhad, Affin Islamic Bank Berhad and Affin Hwang Investment Bank Berhad (among others) are entities within AFFIN Group. At AFFIN Group we value your privacy and strive to protect your personal information in accordance with the laws of Malaysia.
AFFIN Group will only collect and process your personal information in accordance to the laws (including the Personal Data Protection Act 2010), this Privacy Notice and/or the privacy terms in any agreement(s) that you may have or will enter into with any of the entities within AFFIN Group.
This Privacy Notice explains:
For the purposes of this Privacy Notice, please note that:
By providing to us your personal information, you hereby consent to the processing of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
If you are acting on behalf of companies and/or organisations supplying personal information of your officers, employees, authorized signatories, directors, partners, individual shareholders, individual guarantors, individual security providers, suppliers/vendors and/or related parties (“said individuals”) to us, you have warranted that their consent have been obtained and have highlighted this Privacy Notice to the attention of relevant said individuals respectively.
In order to enable us to deal with your inquiries, open and operate an account or facility for you and/or provide you with our products and/or services, we may need to or may be required to collect, record, hold, use, disclose and store (i.e. “process”) your personal and financial information for identification, authentication and validation purpose.
We may obtain this information from yourself and from a variety of sources, including but not limited to:
Other than as stated above, we may use your personal information for any of the following purposes by entities within AFFIN Group (where necessary):
As a part of providing you with our products and/or services and the management and/or operation of the same, we may disclose your personal information (to the extent necessary) to the following parties:
All parties mentioned in the clause above may in turn disclose your personal information to companies within their group of companies, their affiliates and directors, shareholders, employees of such companies and affiliates, their professional advisers, service providers, strategic partners, regulators and other parties on a “need to know basis” who or which may have business or dealings with them to the extent necessary to perform their obligations for AFFIN Group or required by the laws and/or regulations.
The above shall be subject at all times to any laws (including regulations, standards, guidelines and/or obligations) applicable to the entities within AFFIN Group.
Additionally, the entities within AFFIN Group, our third-party merchants and/or strategic partners (“Permitted Parties”) may contact or send you about products, services and promotional offers, which we believe may be of interest to you or benefit you financially, subject to your explicit consent authorizing the sharing of your personal information to the Permitted Parties for the relevant direct marketing and promotional purposes (“Consent”).
You can update or change your Consent (i.e. opt in or opt out) at any time by writing to us. Your latest written instructions to us will prevail.
Save as set out above, we will otherwise treat your personal information as private and confidential and will not disclose your information to anyone outside the entities within AFFIN Group except in any of the following situations:
AFFIN Group places great importance on ensuring the security of your personal information. We regularly review and implement up-to-date technical and organisational security measures when processing your personal information.
Employees of AFFIN Group are trained to handle your personal information securely and with strict confidentiality, failing which they may be subject to disciplinary action.
We also impose compliance with this Privacy Notice on our our strategic partners, agents, professional advisers, affiliates, service providers, merchants, solicitors, and/or any other parties that have business or dealings with us. This serves to ensure that your personal information is safeguarded from unauthorized or accidental loss, misuse, modification, disclosure or destruction.
AFFIN Group will retain your personal information in compliance with this Privacy Notice and/or the terms and conditions of your agreement(s) with entities within AFFIN Group:
Where indicated, it is obligatory to provide your personal information to us to enable us to process your application for our products and/or services. Should you decline to provide such obligatory personal information, we may not be able to process your application or request or provide you with our products and/or services.
You need to update us if there are any changes in your personal information otherwise the latest personal information collected from you shall be applicable.
We can assist you to access and correct your personal information provided to us. You may have access to your personal information under the possession of relevant individual entities within AFFIN Group by making a request via the access request form available at any of our branches.
Please note that any relevant individual entities within AFFIN Group may have to withhold access to your personal information in certain situations, for example when we are unable to confirm your identity or where information requested for is of a confidential commercial nature or in the event we receive repeated requests for the same information. Nevertheless, we will notify you of the reasons for not being able to accede to your request.
Where your data access request is successful and you are of the opinion that such personal information held by us is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or where relevant, not up-to-date, you may make a request to correct such personal information.
You can also assist us to keep your personal information (such as your current mailing address) up to date, as it will enable us to serve you better.
In the event you wish to correct or update your personal information previously provided to us, please write in or notify us at the address provided below. We will, on a best effort basis correct your personal information within twenty-one (21) days of receiving your written request.
For securities trading clients, if you wish to correct or update your personal information previously provided to us, please come personally to any AHIBB’s stockbroking branches to submit your written request to correct or update your personal information in order to avoid inaccuracy and fraudulent amendments. As for other clients, please liaise with the officer in charge of your account or facility with us.
Please note that any relevant individual entities within AFFIN Group may use its discretion in allowing the correction or update requested or may require further documentary evidence of the new information to avoid fraud and inaccuracy.
Subject to our contractual rights and obligations under relevant laws and/or regulations; you may exercise your choice in respect of the disclosure, retention and use of your personal information by AFFIN Group. Should you wish to do so, kindly contact and/or write to the Branch Manager of the servicing branch or the relevant office of the entities under AFFIN Group or our Contact Centre as follows:
Contact Centre Manager
3rd Floor, Block C, Menara Glomac
Kelana Business Centre
97, Jalan SS7/2
47301 Kelana Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +603 - 8230 2222
Should you have any query, concerns or complaints in relation to this Privacy Notice or how we handle your personal information, kindly contact the abovementioned personnel.
This Privacy Notice may be reviewed or revised and/or amended from time to time. The revised Privacy Notice will be posted on our website at www.affingroup.com or www.affinhwang.com and/or communicated to you via any other means of communication deemed suitable by us. If you continue to use our products and/or services, you shall be deemed to have agreed to accept such changes.
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