General The following obligations are in addition to those which apply generally to distance sales under the E-Commerce Directive and other legislation. They are the subject of a separate chapter. The Consumer Rights Directive was implemented in the UK through the Consumer Contracts (Information Cancellation and Additional Payments) Regulations 2013. The regulations provide for information […]
E-Commerce Directive Under the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations, the e-commerce regulations, businesses providing information service (any service normally provided for remuneration at a distance by means of electronic equipment for the processing and storage of data and at the individual request of the recipient) must make certain corporate information available to recipients. Any commercial […]
Regulation of Electronic Marketing There are common European Union rules in relation to unsolicited contact by automatic means. The rules cover not only e-mail but also other automatic means of communication such as telephone, fax and telemarketing. In the e-mail context, the purpose is to suppress SPAM or so called unwanted unsolicited emails which might […]
Data Protection Under data protection law there are limitations on the use of third party personal information. The website should set out a privacy policy setting out how the business uses and protects information given when the website is used. It should set out the information which may be collected such as the personal particulars […]
Overview Data Protection legislation derive from European Union Directives. The English and Irish Date Protection Acts are broadly similar because of this common origin. Data Protection legislation applies to “personal information” which means information about living, identified or identifiable individuals. It includes information such as names, addresses, bank detail, opinions about an individual and so […]
Data Protection Legislation and Reform Data protection law restricts the collection, storage and use of personal data. Personal data is that which concerns a living person. The objective is to protect privacy and to restrict the use of information to legitimate purposes. Personal data must be collected for specified explicit and legitimate purposes and must […]
Data Controllers and Processing The GDPR and Data Protection Act provids key principles for the holding and use of personal data, which are binding on data controllers and data processors. A data controller is anybody who alone or in conjunction with others, controls personal data. Personal data means any data relating to a living individual […]
Rights of Data Subject The data subject’s rights are similar to those under the Data Protection Act. They have rights of access rectification restrict use for direct marketing transfer to another data controller right to be forgotten The right to be forgotten entitles the data subject to require that the data controller erase and no […]