Intermediate level · Module 4: WhatsApp Business and Email Marketing · Lesson 3 of 3
Consent, Privacy and Ethical Messaging
Handle customer contact data responsibly and avoid misleading or manipulative messages.
In this lesson you will
- Record consent and honour opt-outs
- Recognise misleading claims and dark patterns
Key concepts
consent recorddata minimisationmisleading claimsdark patterns
The lesson
Customers' phone numbers and emails are personal data. Collect only what you need, explain how you will use it, keep it secure and let people unsubscribe easily.
Ethical marketing avoids misleading claims, fake urgency, hidden prices and exploiting people's fears. It also respects cultural and religious sensitivities.
A simple written contact-data policy tells staff what to do and shows customers the business can be trusted.
Step by step
- List the personal data the client collects and why.
- Write a one-page contact-data policy.
- Review five sample messages for misleading content.
- Rewrite the problematic messages.
Practice activity
Write a simple contact-data policy for your client and review five sample messages for misleading or manipulative content.
Expected result: A one-page data policy and a reviewed message set.
Check your understanding
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Why should you never buy contact lists?
Show answer
The people did not consent, which is unethical, often illegal elsewhere and damages the sender's reputation.
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