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In the case of a legal conflict regarding the permissibility of the sending of marketing e- mails, the onus is on the sender to provide documentary evidence and prove that permission was actually gran...

6. Special aspects in other countries 6.1 Scope of application of the GDPR According to Art. 3 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the GDPR applies to all companies that have their r...

4. Processing by service providers If service providers are deployed to send mailings or for the storage and/or processing of the email advertisement, their integration must also be designed in a...

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...

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...

What does the eco Complaints Office do?   The eco Complaints Office has been fighting illegal content on the Internet since 1996. It is embedded in the system of regulated self-regulation and...

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data may only be transferred to a third country if an adequate level of protection is guaranteed in that country for the processing...

The workshop “Legal” covers the most important regulatory themes in relation to the sending of commercial emails, taking the current law and legal situation into account. Legalities and illegalitie...

Due to a recent increase in questions about this issue, we would like to shed some light on advertising so-called “secondary lotteries”, a type of unlicensed lottery. This type of lotteries offer bets...

For over 20 years now, the eco Complaints Office has been fighting successfully against illegal content on the Internet, among other things through work in various collaborations, initiatives, and com...