TPS Suppression / TPS Screening

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is a list of telephone numbers maintained by the Direct Marketing Association that companies are not allowed to contact for sales purposes. TPS Screening is a legal requirement leading to up to £5,000 fines if you call a number that is registered with the TPS.

If you need to register yourself on the TPS to stop unsolicited sales calls to your home then you need to visit the Telephone Preference Service website.

By using Data8's TPS suppression files to enhance your database, you ensure that you only contact legitimate customers and prospects who could be interested in your products and services. Many organisations overlook the latest guidelines and risk action by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and possible negative press exposure.

Thousands of telephone numbers are being added to the TPS every day, and with the threat of heavy fines and bad publicity if you make a sales call to a registered number, you should ensure that all your data is TPS screened immediately before starting a telemarketing campaign.

See an example of the TPS Suppression service in action.

In addition to our Data8Online data cleansing service, we also offer a real-time TPS web service that you can integrate into your call centre solution, either to prompt you when a new customer gives you their details that they are on the TPS and give you chance to ask for an overriding permission to call them, or to warn before you make an outgoing call to a registered number.

Benefits

• Comply with the Data Protection Act by identifying the individuals who are TPS registered in your database
• Reduce costs by not wasting resources contacting individuals who have expressed a non interest in sales/marketing calls

Examples

The following data in your customer database:

can be cleansed by this service to:

TPS flags are supplied individually for each telephone number in your data. In addition, we can also supply TPS flags for new telephone numbers obtained through our telephone appending service. Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions on the OSIS data used in the telephone appending service, we are unable to indicate how many of the numbers we can supply from the telephone appending service will also be registered on the TPS until you purchase them.

Data Sources

• The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is the central opt out register on which individuals can record their preference not to receive unsolicited sales and marketing telephone calls to their home or mobile telephone numbers. It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) comply with these guidelines within 28 days of an individual's registration.

Pricing

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