Carphone Warehouse among firms fined for ‘spam’ marketing
The phone chain, along with Valterous Ltd trading as the Therapie Clinic, pleaded guilty to breaking data protection regulations at Dublin District Court.
Assistant data protection commissioner Tony Delaney told Sophie More-O’Ferrall, prosecuting, that in March last year, a man had received two promotional texts from Carphone Warehouse.
He had previously been a customer but had opted out from getting marketing messages.
In February, March and April 2013, another customer also got three promotional messages from the firm despite having opted out from being contacted for marketing purposes.
Carphone Warehouse, which pleaded guilty to five charges yesterday, had been fined €2,500 in 2012 for sending unsolicited marketing emails to customers, the court heard.
Judge John O’Neill imposed convictions and fines totalling €6,000 on Carphone Warehouse for the latest offences.
He also imposed fines totalling €3,000 on Valterous Ltd trading as the Therapie Clinic, after it too admitted sending unsolicited promotional texts to two women.
Therapie Clinic, which has a business address at Holles St, Dublin, had been fined €3,000 in 2012 for similar offences, the judge was told.
