Archive for the 'Contests' Category
December 14, 2022
Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses recent Canadian Competition Bureau enforcement and advocacy.
Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update.
November 15, 2022
We offer CASL (Canadian anti-spam law) legal advice, including how to comply with its express and implied consent, sender identification and unsubscribe mechanism requirements. We also help clients with CASL compliance, due diligence, structuring and maintaining distribution lists and CASL compliance programs.
In addition to our CASL related legal services, we also offer lawyer prepared CASL compliance checklists and precedents.
October 26, 2022
CASL (FEDERAL ANTI-SPAM LAW)
COMPLIANCE PRECEDENTS AND CHECKLISTS
Do you need CASL precedents or checklists
to comply with Canadian anti-spam law?
In addition to our legal services, we offer lawyer-prepared CASL compliance precedents and checklists that identify key consent, disclosure and other requirements to send commercial electronic messages (CEMs) to Canadians and provide checklists and templates to comply with CASL.
Our compliance precedents and checklists are an excellent way to mitigate risk and avoid common CASL-related issues, including relating to express consent requests, sender identification information for CEMs, CASL-compliant unsubscribe mechanisms, business related exemptions and types of implied consent and documenting consent and scrubbing distribution lists. We also offer a template CASL corporate compliance program based on the Canadian CRTC’s CASL compliance program recommendations.
All of our Canadian CASL compliance precedents and checklists include practical overviews of each of the relevant requirements, compliance checklists and guidance how to use them.
Our CASL compliance checklists and precedents are Word version documents with PayPal checkout and credit card payment options.
For more information and to order see: CASL Compliance Checklists and Precedents.
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Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL) came into force in 2014. Since then, marketers and their advisors have been working to comply with what remains a complex law with outstanding uncertainties in some key areas.
In providing CASL advice to clients since CASL came into force, and even over the past several years, I regularly see some of the same compliance errors being made.
In this regard, one common CASL compliance error that I see is in relation to “friends and family” type promotions. This may include, for example, a promotional contest where entrants are incentivized to share information about the contest for bonus entries or where a company’s staff is encouraged to share information about a promotion with friends and family.
September 26, 2022
CASL (FEDERAL ANTI-SPAM LAW)
COMPLIANCE PRECEDENTS AND CHECKLISTS
Do you need CASL precedents or checklists
to comply with Canadian anti-spam law?
In addition to our legal services, we offer lawyer-prepared CASL compliance precedents and checklists that identify key consent, disclosure and other requirements to send commercial electronic messages (CEMs) to Canadians and provide checklists and templates to comply with CASL.
Our compliance precedents and checklists are an excellent way to mitigate risk and avoid common CASL-related issues, including relating to express consent requests, sender identification information for CEMs, CASL-compliant unsubscribe mechanisms, business related exemptions and types of implied consent and documenting consent and scrubbing distribution lists. We also offer a template CASL corporate compliance program based on the Canadian CRTC’s CASL compliance program recommendations.
All of our Canadian CASL compliance precedents and checklists include practical overviews of each of the relevant requirements, compliance checklists and guidance how to use them.
Our CASL compliance checklists and precedents are Word version documents with PayPal checkout and credit card payment options.
For more information and to order see: CASL Compliance Checklists and Precedents.
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Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL) came into force in 2014. Since then, marketers and their advisors have been working to comply with what remains a complex law with outstanding uncertainties in some key areas.
July 26, 2022
Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL) came into force in 2014. Since then, electronic marketers and their advisors have been working to comply with what is still a complex law with some outstanding uncertainties in key areas.
We offer CASL (Canadian anti-spam law) legal advice, including how to comply with its express and implied consent, sender identification and unsubscribe mechanism requirements. We also help clients with CASL compliance, due diligence, structuring and maintaining distribution lists and CASL compliance programs.
In addition to our CASL related legal services, we also offer lawyer prepared CASL compliance checklists and precedents.
February 11, 2022
On February 8, 2022, Canada’s Competition Bureau released a submission entitled Examining the Canadian Competition Act in the Digital Era in response to Senator Howard Wetston’s invitation to comment on Canada’s competition policy framework.
The Bureau’s submission includes sweeping recommendations to amend many of the core provisions of the Competition Act, including its purpose (section 1.1) and its abuse of dominance (sections 78 and 79), civil agreements (section 90.1), conspiracy (cartels) (section 45), bid-rigging (section 47) and criminal and civil deceptive marketing (section 52 and 74.01) provisions. The last major legislative overhaul of Canada’s Competition Act was in 2009 (see: Amendments).
February 1, 2022
Are you planning to run a promotional contest/sweepstakes in Canada?
Our firm has published three new Canadian contest law precedents: a random draw contest law package for operating contests in Canada (including Quebec), a precedent contest influencer/indemnification agreement to limit liability for sponsors and set out obligations in relation to influencers and other marketing partners participating in contests and other promotions and template contest forms language to comply with Facebook’s and Instagram’s Promotion Guidelines.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
