From: Alex Heney 
Newsgroups: uk.legal uk.finance
Subject: Re: debit card without authority of account holder?
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:20:42 +0000

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:09:01 GMT, Mike Scott
 wrote:

>Alex Heney wrote:
>...
>>>>It is in the Banking Code. (see section 12.12)
>>>>
>>>
>>>That would be the same banking code that prohibits sending advertising 
>>>literature when the customer doesn't want it? 
>> 
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> I am talking about the banking code I link to above.
>> 
>> All it says regarding advertising is at section 8, and there is
>> nothing there about not sending any to customers who don't want it.
>> 
>> 8 Advertising and
>> marketing
>...
>> 8.5 When you become a customer, we will give you the
>> opportunity to say that you do not want us to contact
>> you for marketing purposes. At least once every three
>> years, we will remind you that you can do this.
>
>Huh? We did, they don't, and I keep getting their junk mail.
>
>Actually, rereading it, it does only say that they'll /ask/ whether we 
>want their junk. It doesn't say they'll pay any attention :-)

How did I manage to read that section three times, and still not see
that bit?

I managed to read it as all applying to whether they allow third
parties to contact you.
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