Charter news and blog posts
Ethical Marketing Charter launches action plan to stop nuisance calls. More than 70 organisations, including leading law and marketing firms, are calling on the Government to stop nuisance calls by introducing a blanket ban on… Read more >
The Ethical Marketing Charter – the first industry-led initiative of its kind – has marked the one-year anniversary of its launch – going from strength to strength in its first year and securing over 60… Read more >
A new service launched by the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) will allow mobile phone users to sign up by text to the ‘do not call’ register Read more >
New rules preventing direct marketing companies from hiding or disguising their phone numbers when making unsolicited marketing calls have been confirmed today by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Read more >
A PPI claims company which made 46 million cold calls in the space of a few months has been hit with a record fine of £350,000 by the Information Commissioner. Read more >
In an effort to vastly reduce the number of nuisance calls its customers receive, BT is launching a new service that they hope will block around 25 million cold calls every single week. Read more >
A PPI claims firm that set out to “plague the public and rip off consumers” has had its licence suspended by the Claims Management Regulator. Read more >
Direct marketing companies will be forced to display their phone number when calling consumers, according to new laws set to be announced this week. Read more >
A manager at Aviva has admitted to selling the details of the insurance giant’s customers to cold callers for thousands of pounds over a period of 14 months. Read more >
The Information Commissioner’s Office is set to continue writing to companies who are believed to be involved in the buying and selling of consumer data. Read more >
A ski company inundated with so many cold calls that their customers started to complain that they were unable to get through to them by phone has won the right to bill the firms responsible. Read more >
Charities in the UK considered themselves to be a special case when it came to data privacy rules and sought a trade-off with regulators, the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has claimed. Read more >
A Scottish green energy company has been fined £200,000 - the largest fine ever imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office - for an automated cold calling campaign that targeted over six million consumers in a… Read more >
A company has been fined £75,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after bombarding consumers, many of them elderly and vulnerable people, with offers to make nuisance calls ‘a thing of the past’. Read more >
The Information Commissioner is investigating whether any charities broke the law after a former army colonel and widower suffering from dementia was conned out of more than £30,000 over a 21 year period. Read more >
Jonathan White, National Accident Helpline's Legal Director, talks about the support the Ethical Marketing Charter has had so far from regulatory bodies and parliamentarians. Read more >
A claims management company has become the first in the sector to be fined by the Ministry of Justice’s Claims Management Regulator (CMR) for persistent nuisance calls. Read more >
National Accident Helpline and seven personal injury law firms create charter to combat unethical marketing practices Read more >
Southampton based law firm Lester Aldridge showcases its ethics by signing up to Ethical Marketing Charter Read more >
Kettering-based firm National Accident Helpline hailed by local MP for its pioneering role in the fight against cold-calling Read more >
Charter launched to exorcise nuisance marketing in personal injury sector Read more >
National Accident Helpline and seven law firms in the personal injury sector launch the Ethical Marketing Charter Read more >
Stamping out cold calling in the personal injury sector and protecting consumers Read more >
Stamping out cold calling in the personal injury sector and protecting consumers Read more >
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