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Woodgate
& Partners Limited are authorised to conduct investment
business under the Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 and
are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
Woodgate
& Partners Limited's FSA Register Number is 121635. Woodgate
& Partners Limited are financial advisers and will act on
your behalf in advising you on products from the whole market.
Woodgates advise on Life Assurance, Pensions and Investments.
INVESTMENT
SERVICES
Woodgate & Partners Limited are permitted to advise on and
arrange (bring about) deals in investments. The particular
investment types relate to life assurance, pensions, investments
in authorised collective investment schemes, Unit Trust PEPs
and ISAs. With regard to investments which we have arranged
for you, these will not be kept under review but we will advise
you upon your request. However, we may contact you in the
future by means of an unsolicited promotion should we wish
to contact you to discuss the relative merits of an investment
or service which we feel may be of interest to you. Woodgate
& Partners Limited do not handle client's money. We never
accept a cheque made out to us (unless it is a cheque in settlement
of charges or disbursements for which we have sent you an
invoice) or handle cash.
MATERIAL
INTERESTS
Woodgate & Partners Limited offer whole of market advice,
but occasions can arise where we or one of our clients will
have some form of interest in business being transacted for
you. If this happens or we become aware that our interests,
or those of one of our clients, conflicts with your interests,
we will write to you and obtain your consent before we carry
out your instructions and detail the steps we will take to
ensure fair treatment.
TERMINATION
OF AUTHORITY
You or we, may terminate our authority to act on your behalf
at any time, without penalty. Notice of this termination must
be given in writing and will take effect from the date of
receipt. Termination is without prejudice to any transactions
already initiated which will be completed according to these
terms of business unless otherwise agreed in writing. You
will be liable to pay for any transactions made prior to termination
and any fees which may be outstanding.
RIGHT
TO WITHDRAW
In the case of a non packaged product ISA or PEP recommended,
we will inform you in writing of any right to withdraw or
cancel you may have or, if it is the case, we will inform
you in writing that no such rights will apply.
CLIENT
RISK
You are advised that because investments can fall as well
as rise, you may not get back the full amount invested. Past
performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance.
CLIENT
CLASSIFICATION
It is our intention to class you as a private customer from
the outset and provide our service on this basis as it offers
the highest level of regulatory protection. Following our
discussions, it may however be appropriate, based on your
experience and understanding of the service being provided,
for you to be classified otherwise. If this becomes applicable
we will discuss this with you in more detail and confirm this
in writing .
DATA
PROTECTION STATEMENT
The information you have provided is subject to the Data Protection
Act 1998 (the 'Act'). By signing this document you consent
to us, or any company associated with us, processing, both
manually and by electronic means, your personal data for the
purposes of providing advice, administration and management.
'Processing' includes obtaining, recording or holding information
or data, transferring it to other companies associated with
us, product providers, the FSA or any other statutory, governmental
or regulatory body for legitimate purposes including, where
relevant, to solicitors and/or other debt collection agencies
for debt collection purposes and carrying out operations on
the information or data.
We may also contact you or pass your details to other companies
associated with us to contact you (including by telephone)
with details of any other similar products, promotions, or
for related marketing purposes in which we think you may be
interested. The information provided may also contain sensitive
personal data for the purposes of the Act, being information
as to your physical or mental health condition; the commission
or alleged commission of any offence by you; any proceedings
for an offence committed or alleged to have been committed
by you, including the outcome or sentence in such proceedings;
your political opinions, religious or similar beliefs, sexual
life; or membership of a Trade Union.
If
you do not consent to us, or any company associated with us,
processing any such sensitive personal data outside the scope
of dealing with your insurances, please tick the box.
If
you do not wish us, or any company associated with us, to
contact you for marketing purposes by e-mail, telephone, post
or SMS, please tick box.
If at any time you wish us, or any company associated with
us, to cease processing your personal data or sensitive personal
data, or contacting you for marketing purposes, please contact
the Data Protection Officer on 01622 740000 or in writing
at Woodgate & Partners Ltd, Brishing Court Barn, Brishing
Lane, Maidstone, Kent ME17 4NF. You may be assured that we
and any company associated with us will treat all personal
data and sensitive personal data as confidential and will
not process it other than for legitimate purposes.
Steps will be taken to ensure that the information is accurate,
kept up to date and not kept for longer than is necessary.
Measures will also be taken to safeguard against unauthorised
or unlawful processing and accidental loss or destruction
or damage to the data. Subject to certain exceptions, you
are entitled to have access to your personal and sensitive
personal data held by us. We may charge a fee (subject to
the statutory maximum) for supplying you with such data
PAYMENT
FOR SERVICES
We derive our income from commission paid to us by life assurance
companies and the operators of collective investment schemes
through which investments are made. We shall tell you the
amount of commission payable to us on any such investment.
If we receive a commission or other form of benefit from the
issuer of a security or from another intermediary we will
inform you, but we will not tell you the amount unless you
ask us to do so.
ACCOUNTING
TO YOU
Unless in exceptional circumstances, we will confirm to you
in writing the basis or our reason for recommending the transaction
executed on your behalf. We will also make arrangements for
all your investments to be registered in your name unless
you first instruct us otherwise in writing. We will forward
to you all documents showing ownership of your investments
as soon as practicable after we receive them; where a number
of documents relating to a series of transactions is involved,
we will normally hold each document until the series is complete
and then forward them to you.
INVESTMENT
OBJECTIVES AND RESTRICTIONS
Following the issue of this letter any subsequent advice or
recommendation offered to you will be based on your stated
investment objectives, acceptable level of risk and any restrictions
you wish to place on the type of investments or policies you
are willing to consider. Details of your stated investment
objectives will be included in the suitability letter we will
issue to you to confirm our recommendation. Unless confirmed
in writing to the contrary, we will assume that you do not
wish to place any restrictions on the advice we give you.
CLIENT'S
CONSENT
I understand and consent to the above terms and I hereby authorise
the transfer of information, as described above, on a confidential
basis when warranted between such third parties.
I agree that the Terms of Business will come into effect from
the date of issue. Client Name(s)
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Client Signature
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Date
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30/06/05 Version 6
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