Do charitable organizations have to observe telemarketing regulations as commercial organizations do?
November 21, 2010
Question:
Do charitable organizations have to observe telemarketing regulations as commercial organizations do?
A charitable organization and its affiliates has my contact information because of previous donations. I have, for many times, asked them explicitly to stop calling my number, and their representatives have told me that they would take me off their call list. They never stopped.
Do charitable organizations get to do anything they want because they are charitable? I live in Massachusetts. Is there any way I can stop them?
Best answer:
Answer by tkahrs12122
No they are not subject to the do not call list.
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yes like all organizations, profit or non-profit, charities have obey the law and it is illegal to break a telemarketing regulation.
therefore charities have to abide by telemarketing regs.
No, they may not be bound by the same rules as telemarketers (because they aren’t “selling” anything), but they are still bound by privacy laws that prohibit anyone from phoning you (or ringing your doorbell) if you have asked them not to. The MA Attorney General’s Office of Charitable Organizations has rules that they can enforce to reign in over-zealous charitable solicitations.