Bloctel: How to register and protect your phone number?

Bloctel has been a service offered by the French government since 2016. This is a solution set up to protect your phone number or phone numbers against abusive telephone canvassing. Once a number to be protected on Bloctel and the opposition list, it then becomesillegal to call this issue for canvassing. To register on Bloctel, it's easy and free. Here is the details of the procedure and the information to know.

• Go to the site ofBloctel
• Choose “You are a consumer”

• Then go on “registration”

• Then at the bottom on start your registration

• Fill your information: email address, password, name, first name, contact telephone number, address and finally phone number (s) to protect. You can register up to 8 phone numbers on the Bloctel list
• Accept the conditions of use and validate via “validate the form”

Once the registration is made, an email is sent to the address indicated.

Please note, the service specifies that this can take up to 48 hours to receive it. It's necessaryValidate registration by clicking on the linkIncluded in the email within 10 days.

When the operation is finalized, you get this screen:

A second email is then sent, confirming the registration of his or number (s) on the Bloctel list.

“M. xxx,
N° inscription: xxxxxxxxx

Congratulations, you have registered in the Bloctel service, the list of opposition to canvassing.

The number (s) you have registered will be protected for a period of 3 years. At least three months before the deadline for your registration you will receive an email informing yourself of the terms allowing you to renew it. ”

At this stage, you can already connect to the Bloctel site, making “identify” at the top right of the website and entering the e-mail address and password chosen during registration.

In your personal space, you can manage your personal information, your protected numbers, but also attest to registration at the service for your numbers or even make aclaimIn the event that your number is still targeted by canvassing despite its recording on Bloctel.

Namely

Blocktel specifies that any number is protected for a period of3 years renewable. The service takes into account phone numbersFixed and mobileFor calls, and as specified above, everyone can register up to 8 in total.

It should also be noted that not all calls from professionals are blocked by Bloctel, you can always be called bydthe companies with which you are on a contract, but also for the sale of supplies, newspapers, periodicals or magazines, finally for surveys and by non -profit associations. However, are concerned, if not any proposal for purchase, sale, rental, rental-sale, rental with option to buy and provide services.

In the case of illegal canvassing despite an inscription on a blocktel, aComplaint in your Personal Espace Bloctel. This procedure makes it possible to indicate and transmit the information concerning a prospecting call received and normally prohibited, to the services of the DGCCRF which (we hope) will do the necessary.

However, a complaint requires various information not always known (the appellant number, a call company, name of the person who called, etc.). In this case, it is possible to file a report that Bloctel will be able to take into account to try to improve the service.

Finally, let us specify that Bloctelhas no right to use personal dataApart from the purpose of processing the opposition list of telephone canvassing.

Who among you has protected one or more of their phone numbers on Bloctel? Have you noticed a change with regard to telephone canvassing after registration?

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