Privacy & Data Protection

Information Commissioner’s Office

The information commissioners are responsible for promoting public access to official information and protecting your personal information.

If someone is exploiting personal information about you in order to send you unwanted e-mail they may be breaching data protection laws. In the UK the authority responsible for overseeing data protection laws is the Information Commissioner. If you feel you are in danger as a result of threatening or offensive e-mails, contact your local police station.

Unsolicited direct electronic marketing for example by text/picture/video messages/emails can be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The website will provide guidelines on what can be reported and the procedure for doing so.

Visit http://www.ico.gov.uk/ for further help, advice and reporting.