Sends automated texts, in Belgium

Code de droit économique, art. XII.13; arts. XV.120-XV.121 · Read the law's page

• Obtain the recipient's prior, free, specific and informed consent before sending advertising by electronic mail, a term the Code defines as any text, voice, sound or image message sent by a public communications network and stored until the recipient retrieves it, which the Data Protection Authority reads as covering email and SMS.
• You need no prior consent to send advertising by electronic mail to your own customers, natural or legal persons, if you obtained their electronic contact details directly in the sale of a product or service in compliance with privacy requirements, use them for advertising exclusively for analogous products or services that you supply yourself, and gave customers, when the details were collected, the means to object free of charge and in a simple manner to that use (Royal Decree of 4 April 2003, Article 1, point 1°).
• In every advertisement you send by electronic mail, give clear and comprehensible information on the right to object to receiving advertising in the future, and indicate and make available an appropriate means of exercising that right electronically.
• Never use a third party's electronic address or identity, falsify or mask information that identifies the origin or transmission path of the message, or encourage the recipient to visit websites that breach Article XII.12.
• Be ready to prove that the advertising you sent by electronic mail was solicited, because the burden of that proof is on the provider.

Avant-projet de loi modifiant les dispositions du Code civil relatives à la responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux, et insérant l’article 877/1 dans le Code judiciaire · Read the law's page

• Answer for a defective product under the Civil Code provisions on liability for defective products, which the draft amends; the draft also inserts Article 877/1 into the Judicial Code.