| How many times have you sat down to dinner | | | | mind. |
| with your family, or settled down to watch your | | | | Paid for by the direct marketing industry in the |
| favourite TV programme only to be interrupted | | | | UK, the TPS allows individuals in the UK to register |
| by the telephone ringing? | | | | their wish to opt out of receiving unsolicited sales |
| Frustrating at the best of times, but then you get | | | | and marketing telephone calls. It is a legal |
| up to answer the phone and it is yet another | | | | requirement that companies do not make such |
| unwanted sales call. You calmly and politely explain | | | | calls to numbers registered with the TPS. |
| to the caller that you are not interested but they | | | | Quite simply, all you have to do is visit the TPS |
| still persist in trying to tell you about their product | | | | Online website, click on “Register” and |
| or services. | | | | follow the instructions to have your number |
| Staying calm, you politely tell them that you are | | | | included on the TPS register. |
| not interested for a second time and, again the | | | | Registering with the TPS is completely free of |
| salesperson continues with the sales patter. | | | | charge and you will stop receiving unsolicited calls |
| Frustrated you just hang up. | | | | just 28 days after registering your number. |
| What if there was a way that you could stop | | | | If you should receive unsolicited calls after this |
| receiving all those unwanted sales calls. | | | | you can visit the TPS website again and make a |
| Well, you can. The telephone preference service | | | | complaint against the company that called you. |
| (TPS) operates in the UK, with just that aim in | | | | |