Sends automated texts, in Portugal

Artigos 20.º e 21.º do Decreto-Lei n.º 7/2004, de 7 de janeiro · Read the law's page

• In an advertising communication provided at a distance by electronic means, clearly identify, so that an average recipient grasps them easily, the advertising nature of the message as soon as it is presented on the terminal and in a conspicuous way, the advertiser, and any promotional offers such as discounts, prizes or gifts and any promotional contests or games, together with the conditions attached to them.

Artigo 13.º-A da Lei n.º 41/2004, de 18 de agosto, aditado pela Lei n.º 46/2012 · Read the law's page

• Obtain the prior express consent of the subscriber who is a natural person, or of the user, before you send unsolicited communications for direct marketing, in particular by automated calling and communication systems that do not depend on human intervention, by fax machine, or by electronic mail including SMS, EMS and MMS; for a subscriber that is a legal person, stop once the subscriber refuses future communications or registers on the list provided for in Article 13-B.
• If you obtained your customers' electronic contact details in a sale of a product or service and use them to market your own similar products or services without prior consent, clearly and explicitly give the customers a free and easy chance to refuse, when you collect the details and on the occasion of each message where the customer did not refuse initially.
• Do not send electronic mail for direct marketing that conceals or disguises the identity of the person on whose behalf the communication is made, that gives no valid means of contact to which the recipient can send a request to stop, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that breach Article 21 of Decreto-Lei 7/2004.