Context
Three separate companies have been fined a total of £415,000 for sending nuisance marketing to people about car finance, solar panels and funeral plans.
Key points to note
- Colour Car Sales Ltd (CCSL) of Stoke-on-Trent, is a credit intermediary for used car finance. They have been fined £170,000 for sending spam text messages directing people to a number of car finance websites.
- Solarwave of Grays, Essex, has been fined £100,000 for making 73,217 unsolicited marketing calls about solar panel maintenance between January and October 2020.
- LTH Holdings, a telephone marketing company from Cardiff, have been fined £145,000 for making 1.4 million calls selling funeral plans to people who were also registered with the TPS for a year between May 2019 to May 2020.
- In all cases, the companies did not have the valid consent required to send direct marketing and this is against the law (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 – PECR).
Next actions
None – for information only