Duty LXD-4580
Places automated calls, in Greece
Law 2251/1994, Article 9(5) and Article 9η(γ), Direct Advertising Messages and Persistent Unwanted Solicitation of Consumersin force3 lines
Ν. 2251/1994, άρθρο 9 παρ. 5 και άρθρο 9η περ. γ · Read the law's page
- Send an advertising message directly to a consumer by telephone, fax, electronic mail, automated call or another electronic means only if the terms and conditions of Article 11 of Law 3471/2006 are met (Article 9(5)).
- Do not solicit consumers persistently and against their wishes by telephone, fax, electronic mail or other distance means, except where contact is justified, and only to the extent it is justified, to enforce a contractual obligation, with the personal data law reserved (Article 9η, item γ).
- Apply these rules to consumers only: a consumer is a natural person acting outside the person's commercial, business, craft or independent professional activity (Article 1α, item 1).
Law 3471/2006, Article 11(1), (2) and (7), Unsolicited Telephone Calls and Automated Calling Systemsin force4 lines
Ν. 3471/2006, άρθρο 11 παρ. 1, 2 και 7 · Read the law's page
- Obtain the subscriber's explicit consent beforehand before you use an automated calling system for direct commercial promotion of products or services or for advertising of any kind.
- Do not make unsolicited calls with human intervention for those purposes to a subscriber who has declared to the provider of the publicly available service that the subscriber does not wish to receive such calls in general.
- If you provide a publicly available electronic communications service, enter those subscriber declarations free of charge in a special directory of subscribers that is available to any interested person.
- Apply these rules to subscribers that are legal persons as well.
Law 3471/2006, Article 11(1), (3), (4) and (7), Unsolicited Communications for Direct Marketingin force4 lines
Ν. 3471/2006, άρθρο 11 παρ. 1, 3, 4 και 7 · Read the law's page
- Obtain the subscriber's explicit consent beforehand before you use automated calling systems, fax machines or electronic mail, or make any other unsolicited communication by electronic means, for direct commercial promotion of products or services or for advertising of any kind.
- If you use electronic mail contact details lawfully obtained in a sale of products or services or another transaction to promote your own similar products or services without prior consent, give the recipient a clear and distinct way to object easily and free of charge when you collect the details and in every message.
- Do not send electronic mail for direct commercial promotion that omits the clearly stated identity of the sender or of the person for whose benefit it is sent, that has no valid address at which the recipient can ask for the communication to stop, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that breach the Article.
- Apply these rules to subscribers that are legal persons as well.
Law 3471/2006, Article 11(6), Injunction Against Unsolicited Communicationin force1 line
Ν. 3471/2006, άρθρο 11 παρ. 6 · Read the law's page
- Do not repeat a breach of paragraphs 1 to 4 of Article 11 once a recipient of the unsolicited communication, or a provider of publicly available electronic communications services, requires you to stop through the procedure of Article 14(3); the demand is backed by a threatened monetary penalty (Article 11(6)).