On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:21:50 +0000, Owain wrote:

If you're happy to receive
catalogues from them then you're accepting that they can use the data
for direct marketing.

But the personal data required for postal marketing is different from
that required for email marketing, so you could consent to your postal
address being used for marketing, but not consent to your email addr or
telephone being used for this purpose.

You might be right, but I can't find anything in the Data Protection Act
that separates data into separate categories as you suggest, except for
"sensitive" data; for example information about the health of a data
subject.

Chris Ward.