Re: UKNM: Unsolicited Email

[Sean Phelan]

Clive Gringras from the law firm Olswang did a presentation on this

subject at a First Tuesday last summer.  The powerpoint presentation

is still on their site at:


http://www.olswang.co.uk/privacy/olswang.ppt


Cheers

Sean



>All,

>

>A client of mine has a list of email addresses (along with Names and

>Real Addresses etc) that they have gathered from people contacting them

>through their web site.

>

>These were all collected from email response forms, but without an

>opt-in clause.

>

>Does anyone on the list know whether they can be used in any way, e.g.

>to announce the relaunch of the site, to offer product trials etc.What

>is the legal position, and what is the accepted practice for this.

>

>The client only operates in the UK and will therefore ignore non UK

>addresses.

>

>Any help greatly appreciated.

>

>rgds

>

>james downes

>www.bdmedia.co.uk


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