can someone tell me if it is legal for a a club to give over it's
list of members to a sales company,this question relates to the uk

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Clarification of Question by armagh-ga on 22 Oct 2005 12:19 PDT

Hello drochaid-ga I?m glad you have a Data Protection Law certificate,
I work with a company who want to contact members of clubs, some clubs
give us there list of members, we simply write to then on there club
headed paper and give them an opt out if they don't want to be
contacted by phone, some clubs believe it is illegal to for them to
give over there list of member for fear of breaking the law, would
they be breaking the law, the company I work with are official
partners of the organisation these clubs are affiliated with. I do not
want to mention pacific companies or organisation on an open forum; if
it 's appropriate I will give you my email address.

Well I'd answer this, but since there's no way for me to gain an
account that allows me to do so, not going to happen. What I will say
is, this is a complex scenario and whoever answers you will either
need additional information or you WILL NOT receive accurate advice.

Excuse me, I have to go stroke my Data Protection Law certificate again...

what do you mean there's no way for you to gain an
account that allows you to do so.?

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cynthia-ga I thank you for your guidance and will wait for an answer
From a goggle researcher it has been a while from I used this service
Regards

Armagh,
I live in Germany and once was a date control person for a company, so
I am a little familiar with the situation  - but no expert, see the
disclaimer below.
Name and address are considered public information, so there is really
no restriction on their use, but clubs are often overly cautious, and
I think  - ethically -  that they should be.  They should ask their
members before they sell their names on an address list.
 
"... we simply write to then on there club headed paper ..."
This strikes me as being entirely unethical, if not worse,
misrepresenting your message as one sent by the club.  It is unethical
of the clubs to allow you to do this, and even if they do so, it is
still unethical of your company to use their letterhead.
Sure, you're not doing anything evil, say, just selling scarves to
football fans, but I think the approach needs to be refine.
Good thing that you ask.
Maybe Drochaid will be lured back to refute me.
Myoarin

thanks myoarin-ga for your imput