telephone preference service

The UK telephone preference service is aimed at individuals and businesses that prefer not to receive telephone calls of a selling or marketing nature.

By registering with the telephone preference service your telephone number is included in a huge database that telesales and telemarketing companies should interrogate before setting up their automated scripts.  There is a parallel fax preference service.

To avoid unwanted callers it is sensible as soon as you suspect it is this style of call that you ask whether they comply with the telephone preference service.  Inevitably they will say yes, but are calling from outside our boundaries, and that’s the way they get around this legislation.

Companies who do flout these telephone preference service regulations are liable to hefty fines when they are reported to the governing bodies.

Don’t hesitate to register with the telephone preference service, but also ensure you check whenever the phone rings and it isn’t someone you know, that they are compliant with the telephone preference service.