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The legal notice is often the stumbling block for promotional emails and this can lead to customer dissatisfaction, loss of reputation and fines. Yet it is quite easy to create a legally correct le...

The sender of newsletters or other promotional emails must always be aware that recipients, at some stage, may no longer wish to receive promotional mailings and may unsubscribe. In this article, w...

Managing directors and board members and, where applicable, employees and data protection officers are personally liable in the event of data protection violations. Companies process personal data in...

The online segment of the gambling market in Germany has in particular hovered in the “grey area” for many years. Virtual slot machine games, online casino games and online poker are now explicitly in...

The initial situation: It happens time and again that recipients of advertising emails perceive these mails as spam. Consequently, they mark these unwanted messages as spam, or the recipient complain...

What is the DOI procedure anyway?  As a matter of principle, the sender must obtain consent before sending advertising mailings. This follows from Article 6 of the GDPR and Article 13 of the ePrivacy...

As part of the complaint handling process for the CSA, the Complaints Office is confronted with cases where senders claim that the sending of commercial emails was based on the existence of legitimate...

Data transfer to the USA: New standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission do not provide comprehensive security We had already addressed the issue of “international data transfer” from the pers...

At the last minute, the European Commission has now adopted an adequacy decision for data transfers with the UK. We had already reported on this development in our blog: Brexit: How does data transfer...

A series of articles on the background to individual CSA criteria In this series of articles, we look at selected CSA criteria and provide information on their benefits and the reasoning behind them....