Are you falling foul of new online disclosure law?

Many business are risking fines because of their failure to adhere to a new European law on website and email signatures, warns Mike Goldsworthy, technical director of IT specialists GHS, of Devizes Road , Old Town.

”The deadline for businesses to get in line with the regulations was 1 January, though we believe that many will have missed this cut-off date. In particular small and medium sized businesses are most likely to be risking fines”.

The regulations, which incorporate the European First Company Law Amendment into UK law, requires that companies list their company registration number, place of registration and registered office address on websites and in emails.

“Owners and directors now face fines if their employees forget to include this information in email signatures, whilst in reality adding this information automatically to all exterior emails via your exchange server is very simple and relatively in expensive.”

This article originally appeared in the Swindon Advertiser on the 31 January 2007

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