Scottish Power doorstep selling

jackandcoke

GingerBob wrote: »

Talk of the devil! Got information from Scottish Power today that they use the CallCredit group to obtain personal details of prospective customers. CallCredit are, of course, a credit reference agency with access to vast amounts of personal data, to be used for the purposes of credit referencing. I wonder if they are harvesting this data for marketing purposes - I will be asking them forthwith.

Of course they use that data for marketing purposes

GingerBob_3

jackandcoke wrote: »

Of course they use that data for marketing purposes

I'm just checking whether it is legal for them to do so.


ICO quote:


All of the CRAs have different business functions running through them. The information that the CRAs receive for credit referencing purposes is, and should, only ever be used for credit referencing purposes.
CRAs also operate lead generating functions, but the data they sell in this area of their business is made up of information which the CRAs have bought from local authorities about individuals who had not previously opted-out of the full or ‘open’ electoral register and information from other sources, such as lifestyle questionnaires and competition entries. The CRAs only buy data from organisations who have been given consent to pass this data on for direct marketing purposes.
The information used for credit referencing is held entirely separately from data which is sold on for marketing purposes.