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The Fundraising Regulator, the independent non-statutory regulator of charitable
fundraising, launched the Fundraising Preference Service (FPS) on 7 July 2017. The
FPS enables people to more easily opt out of charity fundraising requests. For the
first full year that the FPS has been in operation, it has had 6,619 unique users
of the service with 19,583 requests to stop communication from specified charities.
Over 25% of the requests were for a person other than the person making the request,
indicating that the FPS is providing an important service to vulnerable and elderly
people who may need other people to make requests on their behalf. The Fundraising
Regulator has said that it intends to let the FPS to operate for another year before
it reviews its effectiveness. This will also enable it to monitor the effect of the
General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 on the way charities
use data and consent rules to contact their donors and other supporters.
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