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Disclosure Information
The following information provides you with an important overview of mortgagehq ltd, our duties to you, fees, and how we manage complaints.
License Status and Conditions
mortgagehq limited, FSP463846, trading as mortgagehq holds a financial advice providers (FAP) license issued by the Financial Markets Authority.
Nature and Scope of the Advice
mortgagehq provides advice to our clients about only their general home loan needs. mortgagehq has access to all New Zealand main banks, including a range of non-banking lenders to provide a unique solution for our clients. The banking institutions mortgagehq advisers have access to, are the following:
- ASB
- ANZ
- BNZ
- Co-Operative Bank
- Kiwibank
- Westpac
- TSB
- SBS
- Bank of China
- China Construction Bank
- ICBC
- Heartland Business
- Avanti
- Bluestone
- NZCU Baywide
- Liberty Finance
- Peppermoney
- Basecorp
- Prospa
- Zagga
- ZIP
- Cressida
- DBR
- First Mortgage Trust
- Southerncross Partners
- General Finance
- Goldband Finance
- ASAP Finance
- Strata Funding
Fees and Expenses:
Generally speaking, mortgagehq does not charge for it’s advice. However, in certain situations where the client’s requirement may be more complex, mortgagehq may charge a fee for offering the financial advice. The exact fees we will charge will be confirmed before the advice is provided and the client can decide to proceed or not.
Mortgagehq may charge an application fee in certain circumstances. The exact fees we will charge will be confirmed before the advice is provided to give the client time to decide if they want to proceed. Mortgagehq may also charge a brokerage fee when dealing with non-bank lenders. The exact fees we will charge will be confirmed before applications are submitted.
Conflicts of Interest and Incentives
mortgagehq has strong working relationships with New Zealand based lenders. These relationships allow us to provide competitive pricing and help us meet our expected service expectations to a high standard.
mortgagehq are paid in the form of commission from lenders through which we place business. The amount of the commission we receive depends on the loan amount of any loan, and lender. Typically we receive an upfront initial commission of between 0.45% to 0.85% of the total loan amount.
mortgagehq may also receive annual ongoing commission of between 0.125% and 0.2% for every year your outstanding loan balance that remains with the bank. We will provide more specific details of these commissions once we have talked to you and understand your needs/at the time our advice is given.
Our advisers receive a salary as an employee of mortgagehq. They are eligible to receive a bonus each quarter of a certain level of overall performance is achieved. The performance incentive accounts for (but not limited to) individual financial targets, quality of work, and team performance.
Mortgagehq believe in their recommendations provided to all clients and have an ongoing responsibility to ensure these client’s needs and lending requirements are managed to a high standard, and on an on-going basis. This means mortgagehq will receive an ongoing commission payment from the lender for this service.
To ensure that our financial advisers prioritise our clients interests above their own, we pay our advisers on a salary basis.
Mortgagehq policy is to only engage with clients where there is a clear material benefit to be gained for our clients, otherwise, we will refuse to engage. We do not want to waste your time if we do not think we can or should help.
Mortgagehq have clear ‘conflict of interest’ policies and procedures. Our financial advisers follow an advice process that ensures our recommendations are made on the basis of each client’s goals and circumstances. All our financial advisers undergo regular training about how to manage conflicts of interests. We undertake a compliance audit, and review of our compliance program annually, completed by an external compliance adviser.
Complaints and Disputes?
If you are not fully satisfied with the service provided by an mortgagehq adviser, please contact your adviser, or mortgagehq directly. The managing director is available at andrew@mhq.co.nz
The mortgagehq complaints officer will acknowledge your complaint in writing within 8 business hours, and endeavour to resolve your complaint in a timely manner. You can find more about our complaints process online on the next tab, titled disputes and complaints.
Our Duties
Mortgagehq believe in helping our clients plan and organize their property/investment life cycle through understanding your position, situation and delivering bespoke advice to achieve these goals.
We are bound by duties outlined under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013, and must:
- Meet standards of competence, knowledge and skill set by the Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advice Services (code of conduct). These are designed to ensure our advisers have the expertise to provide you with financial advice
- Take steps to ensure that you understand the nature and scope of the advice we give you and advise of any limitations to this advice.
- Give priority to your interests, by taking all reasonable steps to ensure our advice does not pertain to any conflict of interest; influencing our own interests.
- Exercise care, diligence and skill.
- Treat our clients fairly and act with integrity.
- Make certain disclosure information available to you, at a certain time. We must not provide false or misleading information.
Contact Details
mortgagehq limited holds a financial advice provider licence issued by the Financial Markets Authority.
You can contact us at:
Phone: 0800 733 462
Email: andrew@mhq.co.nz
Post: PO BOX 54229, The Marina, Auckland 2144
You can download this important information about disputes and complaints here.
Further disclosure information regarding complaints is available to download here.
At mortgagehq, we are focused on providing excellent client service and quality advice. We only try to help when we can see that our solutions will put you in a better situation. Our business focus and key endeavour is to help clients plan and organize their property/investment and mortgage life cycles.
If you do not believe we have delivered on this promise, we would like to hear your comments.
Complaints are a valuable way to maintain and improve our standards.
If you have a complaint regarding our adviser’s service, explanations, product outcomes, or do not believe we have met the requirements outlined in our disclosure and/or Nature and Scope of our Advice; we would like to hear from you.
We prefer that you contact your adviser first. If you do not feel comfortable in doing this, or believe the complaint will not be resolved, you can contact mortgagehq’s compliance officer using the following methods. You should always feel comfortable contacting the managing director directly or by CC’ing him into correspondence with the adviser.
- Phone: 021 424 027
- Email: complaints@mhq.co.nz
- Andrew Malcolm – Managing Director
We handle complaints first, internally, with an open mind and discuss the complaints handling process in a transparent manner. We will endeavour to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, within 5 business days. If we have not resolved your complaint within this timeframe, we will outline why, what action is underway and an understanding of the timeframe for resolution.
If you are unable to resolve your complaint with mortgagehq directly, you may refer it to Financial Services Complaints Limited (FSCL) of which mortgagehq is a member. FSCL is an approved independent dispute resolution scheme that handles complaints in the financial services industry, including financial advisers.
This service is FREE to customers.
Further information is available at www.fscl.org.nz, and is also able to be contacted by phoning them on 0800 347 257.
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- you agree to these Terms; and
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- If you do not agree to these Terms, you are not authorised to access and use the Website, and you must immediately stop doing so.
2. CHANGES
- We may change these Terms at any time by updating them on the Website. Unless stated otherwise, any change takes effect immediately. You are responsible for ensuring you are familiar with the latest Terms. By continuing to access and use the Website, you agree to be bound by the changed Terms.
- We may change, suspend, discontinue, or restrict access to, the Website without notice or liability.
- These Terms were last updated on 23 November 2020
3. DEFINITIONS
In these Terms:
including and similar words do not imply any limit
Loss includes loss of profits, savings, revenue or data, and any other claim, damage, loss, liability and cost, including legal costs on a solicitor and own client basis
personal information means information about an identifiable, living person
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We, us or our means mortgagehq Limited.
Website means https://mhq.co.nz
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- If you are given a User ID, you must keep your User ID secure and:
- not permit any other person to use your User ID, including not disclosing or providing it to any other person; and
- immediately notify us if you become aware of any disclosure or unauthorised use of your User ID, by sending an email to andrew@mhq.co.nz
- You must:
- not act in a way, or use or introduce anything (including any virus, worm, Trojan horse, timebomb, keystroke logger, spyware or other similar feature) that in any way compromises, or may compromise, the Website or any Underlying System, or otherwise attempt to damage or interfere with the Website or any Underlying System; and
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- the Website being unavailable (in whole or in part) or performing slowly;
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7. LIABILITY
- To the maximum extent permitted by law:
- you access and use the Website at your own risk; and
- we are not liable or responsible to you or any other person for any Loss under or in connection with these Terms, the Website, or your access and use of (or inability to access or use) the Website. This exclusion applies regardless of whether our liability or responsibility arises in contract, tort (including negligence), equity, breach of statutory duty, or otherwise.
- Except to the extent permitted by law, nothing in these Terms has the effect of contracting out of the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or any other consumer protection law that cannot be excluded. To the extent our liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, our liability is limited to NZD100.
- To the maximum extent permitted by law and only to the extent clauses 7.1 and 7.2 of these Terms do not apply, our total liability to you under or in connection with these Terms, or in connection with the Website, or your access and use of (or inability to access or use) the Website, must not exceed NZD350
8. PRIVACY POLICY
- You are not required to provide personal information to us, although in some cases if you choose not to do so then we will be unable to make certain sections of the Website available to you. For example, we may need to have your contact information in order to provide you with updates from our Website.
- When you provide personal information to us, we will comply with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.
- The personal information you provide to us (including any information provided if you register for an account) is collected and may be used for communicating with you, statistical analysis, providing you with financial analysis and options, providing you with relevant educational materials, the marketing by us of products and services to you, credit checks (if necessary), and research and development.
- We may also collect technical information whenever you log on to, or visit the public version of, our Website. This may include information about the way users arrive at, browse through and interact with our Website. We may collect this type of technical information through the use of cookies and other means. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive to enable our systems to recognise your browser. If you want to disable cookies, you may do so by changing the settings on your browser. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use all of the functions on the Website. We use the technical information we collect to have a better understanding of the way people use our Website, to improve the way it works and to personalise it to be more relevant and useful to your particular needs. We may also use this information to assist in making any advertising we display on the Website more personalised and applicable to your interests.
- Generally, we do not disclose personal information to third parties for them to use for their own purposes. However, some of the circumstances in which we may do this are:
- to service providers and other persons working with us to make the Website available or improve or develop its functionality (e.g. we may use a third party supplier to host the Website);
- in relation to the proposed purchase or acquisition of our business or assets; or
- where required by applicable law or any court, or in response to a legitimate request by a law enforcement agency.
- Any personal information you provide to us may be stored on the secure servers of our trusted service providers, which may be located outside New Zealand. This may involve the transfer of your personal information to countries which have less legal protection for personal information than New Zealand.
- You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at andrew@mhq.co.nz, or 021 424 027, or Office 1 C9 Ara Tai Drive, or PO BOX 54229, The Marina, Auckland 2144.
9. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
- Without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to us, if we consider that you have breached these Terms or we otherwise consider it appropriate, we may immediately, and without notice, suspend or terminate your access to the Website (or any part of it).
- On suspension or termination, you must immediately cease using the Website and must not attempt to gain further access.
10. GENERAL
- If we need to contact you, we may do so by email or by posting a notice on the Website. You agree that this satisfies all legal requirements in relation to written communications.
- These Terms, and any dispute relating to these Terms or the Website, are governed by and must be interpreted in accordance with the laws of New Zealand. Each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New Zealand in relation to any dispute connected with these Terms or the Website.
- For us to waive a right under these Terms, the waiver must be in writing.
- Clauses which, by their nature, are intended to survive termination of these Terms, including clauses 5, 5, 6, 7, 10.1, continue in force.
- If any part or provision of these Terms is or becomes illegal, unenforceable, or invalid, that part or provision is deemed to be modified to the extent required to remedy the illegality, unenforceability or invalidity. If a modification is not possible, the part or provision must be treated for all purposes as severed from these Terms. The remainder of these Terms will be binding on you.
- These Terms set out everything agreed by the parties relating to your use of the Website and supersede and cancel anything discussed, exchanged or agreed prior to you agreeing to these Terms. The parties have not relied on any representation, warranty or agreement relating to the Website that is not expressly set out in the Terms, and no such representation, warranty or agreement has any effect from the date you agreed to these Terms.
