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Office of Fair of Trade

OPSI Website

As the E-commerce Directive-implementing Regulations have provisions affecting unsolicited commercial e-mails, further independent guidance on the use of cookies and how to notify consumers of them is available from their website at: www.allaboutcookies.org.


The Information Commissioner has responsibility for the enforcement of the Privacy Regulations. Further information about his role including guidance notes are available from his website at: www.ico.gov.uk.

An explanatory note for consumers on their rights over unsolicited phone, fax, e-mail and SMS marketing is available: Explanatory note: unsolicited marketing calls, fax messages, e-mails, text messages (SMS), silent calls and premium rate service (PRS) calls