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Firm pleads guilty over unsolicited emails

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has welcomed the outcome of prosecution proceedings taken in Cork District Court earlier this week.  

The case was brought by the DPC against Sempiternal Aesthetics Limited, trading as SISU Clinic, which provides cosmetic treatments. 

At Cork District Court before Judge Carroll on 20 November, the company pleaded guilty to six charges of sending unsolicited marketing emails to a customer without consent, and six charges relating to the failure to provide the customer with a valid address to opt out of receiving such communications.

Warning 

The court applied the Probation Act to all 12 counts, based on the fact that the company had engaged with the DPC and rectified its systems to ensure that this issue would not happen in the future. 

Sempiternal Aesthetics Limited was ordered to pay €500 towards the legal fees of the DPC. 

The DPC said that it had issued a warning previously to the defendant in June 2023. This followed the investigation of a complaint from a member of the public about marketing emails, and requests for opt-outs not being respected.