InfoCision, Inc., an Akron, Ohio-based company, agreed last month to pay a $250,000 civil penalty and implement recordkeeping and monitoring practices to settle Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) charges brought by the Department of Justice on the FTC’s behalf.
The FTC alleged that since at least 2013 InfoCision conducted hundreds of telemarketing campaigns on behalf of charitable organizations that violated the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”). The TSR requires telemarketers calling on behalf of a charity to promptly inform the call recipients of the solicited charity and that the purpose of the call is to seek a donation.
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