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Old 19-03-2010, 21:16   #1
LSainsbury
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Company in Administration

Hi,

I've had some email from a company that claims they got my email address from a company that went into administration - company A.

I'm fairly sure that when I signed up and bought some tickets from company A, I unchecked / checked the boxes that opted me out of any future mailings.

Company A has gone into administration and company B (who I got the mails from) claim thay got the email addresses from company A.

When I questioned company B they said:

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Company A data was then permission passed by Company B. This process has been approved by the ICO for use where the original data owner has gone into administration and Company B has permission from the administrator to make non-selling contact via email with the customer inviting them to join Company B or to opt-out.
So just out of interest, how legal is that? Does'nt the DPA cover this kind of thing??
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