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Under European Union law, business-to-consumer contracts are regulated by the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. A business’s standard terms must be reasonable in order to be enforceable. This extends...
Information Commissioner issues code of practice for online behavioural advertising
The Information Commissioner’s Office – the UK’s data protection regulator – has issued a code of practice dealing with online behavioural advertising issues. Online behavioural advertising refers...
EU Member States may impose more consumer-friendly laws than are contained in Unfair Terms Directive – Caja de Ahorros v Associacion de Usuarios de Servicios Bancarios, European Court of Justice
The Unfair Terms Directive states that certain terms in standard business-to-consumer contracts are unfair if they are not in plain language or if they are unfair on consumers. That Directive has been...