Civil parking charge notice.

welda

Mrs W is raging, over stayed by 18 minutes Lidls south of Edinburgh. Usual charge letter, £90 fine reduced to £45 if paid within 14 days.

I've told Mrs W to ignore, however, the company website makes interesting reading, I'll also be paying our MP/MSP a visit, how can it be legal for this company to have access to DVLA data base, data protection act is surely breached?

http://www.athena-anpr.com/services/offence-enforcement.asp

trisontana

I like the liberal use of the word "offence". On another page they talk about "paying your parking fines".They wouldn't be pretending to be the police or the council would they?

Kite2010

The DVLA are more than willing at times to dish out the registered keeper information in exchange for £2.50 to PPCs.

It's a shame they do it (and that they don't charge more for the service)

And heh, trying to get onto the "https://www.athena-parking.com/" site to pay and Firefox has thrown up an untrusted connection error, not the greatest of starts :P

Ignore, unless the law is different in Scotland regarding PPCs and their invoices

trisontana

Kite2010 wrote: »

Ignore, unless the law is different in Scotland regarding PPCs and their invoices

It's the same as in England and Wales.

Kite2010

So in that case, just ignore the letters and threat-o-grams that they will send you

BLT_2

welda wrote: »

Mrs W is raging, over stayed by 18 minutes Lidls south of Edinburgh. Usual charge letter, £90 fine reduced to £45 if paid within 14 days.

I've told Mrs W to ignore, however, the company website makes interesting reading, I'll also be paying our MP/MSP a visit, how can it be legal for this company to have access to DVLA data base, data protection act is surely breached?

http://www.athena-anpr.com/services/offence-enforcement.asp

How the hell do you overstay parking at a LIDL, they don't sell enough stuff in their store to warrant an overstay

McKneff

I wouldnt bother contacting your mp about data protection.

Anyone who sends £2.50 to the DVLA can have records sent to them.

Ignore the letters these muppets send and tell Mrs W to chill out.

Coblcris

Vehicle registration documents. You gave permission to the DVLA to do this.

The DVLA passes of DPA compliance to the the requestor as that is all they have to do as you gave permission.

Always read every line of any form you sign.

welda

BLT wrote: »

How the hell do you overstay parking at a LIDL, they don't sell enough stuff in their store to warrant an overstay

No problem for a professional shopper, the shop must have had a run on shoes and handbags, hence the over stay :rotfl:

Fergie76

Coblcris wrote: »

Vehicle registration documents. You gave permission to the DVLA to do this.

The DVLA passes of DPA compliance to the the requestor as that is all they have to do as you gave permission.

Always read every line of any form you sign.

Is there any opt out of this? Or does it mean you can't register the car, if you opt out?

Also, it probably isn't an offence under the DPA, as your name and address are publicly available from the likes of the electoral register, if registered.

welda

I'm tempted to call them and tell them to RAM it!! On the other hand, they aint worth my time.

As for DVLA, another non producing quango.

Thanks for replies folks :T