Surely you will receive unexpected calls to the company phone offering you an offer, be it mobile telephony, to save on electricity bills and many other services. This way of doing marketing can be annoying, especially since they usually call at specific times and repeatedly.
One of the solutions to avoid this type of inconvenience is to enter the Robinson List, a service that is currently free for the user. You may be wondering what the Robinson List is., for this it is best to talk to you about this and join if you deem it appropriate so that they stop riddled you with calls.
What is the Robinson List?
It is known as a service for advertising exclusion, working not only on calls from companies, but also on not receiving emails, SMS and more. Entering it will save us the heaviness on their part, since if they want to send you an offer they will have to check whether or not you are on the list.
Companies have a duty to see if you are included in the Robinson List, thereby preventing them from sending you any type of advertising through the different possible channels. About a million people are already registered on this well-known list and its growth has been increasing in recent times.
This registration is easy, for this you have to register and wait a few days for this to take effect, which in the end is well worth it. You will not receive an email, SMS, call or other nuisance, although it is clear that not all companies consult the Robinson List.
A list that grows due to the many inconveniences
Various operators call at any time of the day to sell you an offer, they do it through mobile phones, but on other occasions they do it from landlines. It does not have to be the operator you have, others try to convince you that with their plan you will save much more than with the one you currently have.
Because it is free, the registration of more than 100.000 people throughout 2022 has raised awareness and the desire to avoid receiving any publicity. If you have not given your consent, you do not have to receive advertising by any means., which in the end can be annoying and frustrating to stop, but sometimes we try to block, either on the phone or mail, but it is not possible with SMS.
The Robinson List serves to not receive advertising from those companies to which you have not given your consent, but you will receive from those to which you have given it. You can reverse this if you speak directly with the business or company, thereby preventing less or none from reaching you.
Sign up for the Robison List
The first step to avoid the annoying call, an unexpected email or an SMS of an offer, is signing up for the Robinson List. This will take you just two minutes, it will not require much information from you, one of the data requested is the DNI, to confirm that it is you.
Once you register, the company that wants to call you, send an email or an SMS, will have to see if you are within it, since the companies must and can check it on the page. If you make a call if you consult it before, they will be violating your rights and this in the end is denounceable.
Otherwise, if you are a company you can register in the service, thus checking if a person you are going to call is or is not within the Robinson List. This directory is for the company or important company, having a maximum number of queries, if you pass a number you will have to pay a significant figure.
To sign up, do the following:
- The first thing is to access the page of listarobinson.es
- Click on the “Join the list” button
- Now you have two options, one to sign up for yourself, the other is to target another person, always with their consent, click on the first option
- Fill in all the fields, ID, name, surname, date of birth, create a password and fill in the captcha, also accept the consent and click on “Sign up”
- You will receive an email, you must activate it to register on the Robinson List and that's it
- It will send you directly to the web page, here you have to select where you do not want to receive advertising, your thing is to activate all the options, for this you will be asked to provide information, complete each of them
Who can access the Robinson List?
Currently not every company has access to the Robinson List, for this they have to pass the registration filter, they may be registered and then it will be the administration itself that decides whether to stay or not. Being able to consult the files goes through the different filters, which are sufficient today.
The advertisers are the first who can access the Robinson List, the service providers and the third party is responsible for files. Once they are registered or if they are, they will see by searching for name and surname if they are registered in the portal, seeing the options denied by the user.
Upon entering each of them you will see the contact options with the person, so it is advisable to fill in all the fields in order not to receive publicity by any means. Companies often make a large number of queries on the Robinson List, although it is clear that not all of them are registered.
The law has been toughened
That company that does not consult the Robinson List and bothers users could receive a significant sanction, all after knowing the adaptation of the European Data Protection Regulation. The inconvenience to those registered users, makes it possible and necessary to denounce the company.
At the moment, important fines are known, so the company has the right to make the query on this page with the access of its credentials. The person also has the option to see if it is interesting to receive or not the different offers, removing or activating the options that it gives when we register.
