redranger

Yeah I agree with you, I am not keen on this but he is desperate to try and drum up some business. I certainly won't be allowing him to send the emails through the server we use if he does go for it. He wants my help to construct the email. I'd rather not get involved and if it is illegal it makes it easy for me to refuse to get involved. I found the following web page: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/online/spam_emails.aspx What does the law say? The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 cover the sending of email marketing. This legislation says that organisations must only send marketing emails to individuals if you have agreed to receive them, except where there is a clearly defined customer relationship. Many spam emails come from outside the UK. The ICO can only investigate complaints about marketing emails from identifiable UK senders.

A client of mine is talking about running an email marketing campaign for his business. To do this, he is talking to a company who sell email addresses. He would purchase thousands of email addresses from them, then create and send an email to these email addresses to advertise his business. What is the law regarding this sort of thing? Is it illegal within the UK to send unsolicited emails like this? Thanks.