Food delivery company HelloFresh has been fined £140,000 after a seven-month spamming campaign of 79 million emails and one million text messages.
Customers were also not given enough information that their data would be used for marketing for up to two years after cancelling their subscriptions, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has claimed.
The ICO began its investigation in March 2022 following 14 complaints made directly to the regulator as well as 8,729 to the 7726 spam message reporting service.
The investigation found the company continued to contact some individuals even after they had asked it to stop. Try MEN Premium now with our amazing New Year offer...
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