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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) amended the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) in 2003, 2008, 2010 and 2015. Like the original TSR issued in 1995, the amended Rule gives effect to the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (TCFPA). This legislation gives the FTC and state attorneys general law enforcement tools to combat telemarketing fraud, gives consumers added privacy protections and defenses against unscrupulous telemarketers, and helps consumers tell the difference between fraudulent and legitimate telemarketing. This guide describes the types of organizations and activities that are subject to the TSR and explains how to comply.

These entities are: brokers, dealers, transfer agents, municipal securities dealers, municipal securities brokers, government securities brokers, and government securities dealers (as those terms are defined in Section 202(a)(11) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940); and futures commission merchants, including brokers, commodity trading advisers, commodity pool operators, leverage transaction merchants, floor brokers, or floor traders (as those terms are defined in Section 6(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act).

The McCarran-Ferguson Act provides that the FTC Act, and by extension, the TSR, are applicable to the business of insurance to the extent that such business is not regulated by state law. Whether the McCarran-Ferguson exemption removes insurance-related telemarketing from coverage of the TSR depends on the extent to which state law regulates insurance telemarketing. If state law regulates the telemarketing at issue and enforcement of the TSR would conflict with and effectively supersede those statelaws, then the TSR would not apply. Unlike the jurisdictional exemptions for banks and non-profit organizations, which do not extend to third-party telemarketers making calls on their behalf, in the case of the telemarketing of insurance products and services, the TSR does not necessarily apply simply because the campaign is conducted by a third-party telemarketer.

Any call from a consumer that is not placed in response to a solicitation by the seller, charitable organization, or telemarketer is exempt from coverage. Because the consumer initiates the call without any inducement from the seller or telemarketer, the call is not considered part of a telemarketing plan, program, or campaign conducted to sell goods or services or to induce a charitable contribution. Some examples include calls to:

The TSR generally does not apply to calls consumers make in response to general media advertising, such as TV commercials; infomercials; home shopping programs; radio ads; print ads in magazines, newspapers, the Yellow Pages, or online directories; and banner ads and other forms of mass media advertising and solicitation. Telemarketers receiving these kinds of inbound calls from consumers nevertheless have to comply with three important requirements:

First, the prohibitions on certain payment methods, namely the use of remotely created payment orders and remotely created checks, cash-to-cash money transfers, and cash reload mechanisms, apply to inbound calls in response to general media advertising. If a seller or telemarketer uses remotely created payment orders or checks, or accepts cash-to-cash money transfers or cash reload mechanisms, it will violate the TSR.

Sellers and telemarketers that comply with these prohibitions in inbound telemarketing remain exempt from the TSR requirements if they otherwise qualify for the general media exemption. Therefore, they are covered by the TSR only if they violate the prohibition.

Sales solicitations: Generally, consumer calls in response to a direct mail solicitation that clearly, conspicuously, and truthfully makes the disclosures required by the TSR are exempt from the TSR. These disclosures are:

If you are a seller or telemarketer who uses direct mail, you may use this exemption only if your direct mail solicitation messages make the disclosures required by Section 310.3(a)(1) of the TSR clearly, conspicuously, and truthfully.

Charitable solicitations: Consumer calls in response to direct mail messages that solicit charitable contributions are exempt, provided they contain no material misrepresentation about:

The TSR generally does not cover telephone transactions where the sale of goods or services or a charitable contribution is not completed until after a face-to-face presentation by the seller or charitable organization, and the consumer is not required to pay or authorize payment until then. This exemption is for transactions that begin with a face-to-face sales presentation and are completed in a phone call, as well as those that begin with a phone call and are completed in a face-to-face sales presentation.

Clear and Conspicuous: Clear and conspicuous means that information is presented in a way that is difficult to miss and that ordinary consumers will easily notice and understand, so that required disclosures are communicated as effectively as the sales message.

Sometimes, the total cost and quantity are not fixed when the initial transaction takes place, but, instead, are determined over time. For example, in a negative option plan, like those offered by some book clubs, the consumer may agree to buy a certain number of items over a specified time period. The consumer gets periodic announcements of the selections; each announcement describes the selection, which will be sent automatically and billed to the consumer unless the consumer tells the company not to send it. Similarly, a continuity plan is a type of negative option plan that offers subscriptions to collections of goods. During the course of the plan, the consumer can choose to purchase some or all the items offered in the collection. Consumers who agree to buy an introductory selection also agree to receive additional selections on a regular schedule until they cancel their subscription to the plan.

Both negative option and continuity plans are structured to give consumers the opportunity to buy a series of products over time. The cost of the plan as a whole is determined by the number and type of items the consumer decides to accept in the series, and at the time of the initial sales offer, neither the seller nor the consumer necessarily knows how much product the consumer will purchase, or the total cost of the products.

Cost and Quantity Disclosure in the Marketing of Credit Products: If sellers and telemarketers are offering credit products subject to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) or Regulation Z, compliance with the credit disclosure requirements and the timing of the disclosures mandated by TILA or Regulation Z constitute compliance with the total cost and quantity disclosure requirements of the TSR with respect to the credit instrument. Nevertheless, the cost and quantity of any goods or services purchased with that credit also must be disclosed.

The TSR requires sellers and telemarketers to disclose all material restrictions, limitations, or conditions to purchase, receive, or use goods or services that they are offering to the consumer. Material information is information that a consumer needs to make an informed purchasing decision. A material restriction, limitation, or condition is one that, if known to the consumer, would likely affect the decision to purchase the goods or services offered; to purchase them at the offered price; to purchase them from that particular seller; or to make a charitable contribution. Examples of material information that must be disclosed include:

Sellers and telemarketers may disclose orally or in writing information about material restrictions, limitations, or conditions to purchase, receive, or use the goods or services being offered, as long as the information is clear and conspicuous and disclosed before the consumer pays.

A prize promotion includes any sweepstakes or other game of chance, and any representation that someone has won, has been selected to receive, or may be eligible to receive a prize or purported prize. A prize is anything offered and given to a consumer by chance.

For the element of chance to be present, all that is necessary under the TSR is that if the consumer is guaranteed to receive an item, at the time of the offer the telemarketer does not identify the specific item that the person will receive. For example, say you send a solicitation promising recipients that they will receive one of four or five listed items but you do not tell recipients which of the listed items they will receive. In that case, any item the consumer receives is a prize, and the solicitation is a prize promotion.

A seller or telemarketer that offers a prize promotion must provide consumers with several items of information before the consumer pays for any goods or services being offered. This information may be given to consumers orally or in writing, as long as the information is clear and conspicuous. You must tell consumers:

An outbound call is a call initiated by a telemarketer to a consumer. The TSR requires that a telemarketer making an outbound sales call promptly disclose, before any sales pitch is given, the following four items of information truthfully, clearly, and conspicuously:

The TSR prohibits sellers and telemarketers from misrepresenting the total costs to purchase, receive, or use the goods or services offered, or the quantity of goods or services offered at the stated price. For example, you may not tell consumers that they may purchase a magazine subscription for three years at $1.50 a month, when that rate is an introductory rate that will expire after the first year.

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