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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN0971304 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Wed Oct 17deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Data and privacy

In the Ombudsman’s words

I know that Mr V isn’t happy with any of this. In particular he doesn’t think its right that Barclays didn’t have processes in place to recognise Mr V as an existing customer when sending out mailshots. He’s also concerned about how his personal details might have been used by othersData and privacy

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN0971304.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.