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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…
You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…
You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…
Case study on how the advertising industry initiated a system of self-regulation in non-broadcast media in 1962, followed by co-regulation with…
The CMA has published 6 key principles for tackling hidden ads on social media for platforms.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
The Online Advertising Taskforce brings together representatives from government and the online advertising sector to work in collaboration to address illegal harms and the protection of children in relation to online advertising.
New rules to crack down on illegal ads, influencer scams and protect children online
Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
This is a study for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport on online advertising issues and self-regulatory initiatives.
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