Fairheads Financial Services Legal And Compliance
Fairheads prides itself on high standards of governance. The following are some of the basic reassurances we can give our clients:
Fairheads is committed to maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards in the execution of its business activities. We have a Conflict of Interest policy which all our employees must adhere to and which is required by the General Code of Conduct to the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS). The policy is available from our Compliance Officer at compliance@fairheads.com.
The Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), 2 of 2000 gives you the right to access information that you might require for the exercise or protection of any rights. “The aim of PAIA, is to foster a culture of transparency and accountability in public and private bodies. It does that by giving effect to the right of access to information and actively promoting a society in which the people of South Africa have effective access to information to enable them to more fully exercise and protect all of their rights and also to realise South Africa’s goals of an open and participatory democracy.” ~ from the PAIA guide produced by the Information Regulator (South Africa). Download the PAIA guide in English or Xhosa.
In accordance with The Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), No 2 of 2000 we have an information manual which provides guidelines on how to exercise rights to access to information. Download the information manual here. If you require access to information, please download the PAIA Request for Information Form here.
Our POPIA Compliance Statement governs the manner in which Fairheads Financial Services (Pty) Ltd (“Fairheads”) treats the collection of your personal information. We take all reasonable measures, in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act No 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) and applicable information security laws, to protect your personal information. Download the POPIA Compliance Statement here.
Fairheads Financial Services’ Compliance Officer can be contacted at compliance@fairheads.com.