I just received revised terms and conditions from my bank (Coop), in which
they have a clause allowing them to market to me by letter, phone (including
automatic dialling), fax, e-mail or any other method. The new Privacy and
Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003 No. 2426)
which come into force on 11 December say that I have to "notify" my consent
for fax marketing, automatic calling, phone marketing (if my number is on
the TPS register) and e-mail marketing other than in relation to similar
goods and services to what they are already providing me with. So I have
written back to ask how their revised terms and conditions comply with the
requirement for me to notify them. Has anyone else come across a similar
attempt to undermine the new Regulations?
If anyone would be interested, I would be happy to e-mail a short summary of
my understanding of the current position relating to marketing, taking
account of the DPA, the new Regulations (which are a vast improvement
compared to the parts of the 1999 Data Protection and Privacy Regulations
that they replace, I have to say), and various other e-commerce regulations.
Paul Ticher
Information Management
0116 273 8191
22 Stoughton Drive North, Leicester LE5 5UB
I hereby require any recipient of this message not to use my personal data
for direct marketing purposes.
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