None

Financial penalty

Enforcement notice, no fine

24 April 2025

Date on the register

PECR 2003

Law relied on

provision not named

General business

Sector

20 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U with a enforcement notice on 24 April 2025 under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U
Action: Enforcement notice
Date published: 24 April 2025
Register year: 2025
Law relied on: PECR 2003
Provisions cited: Not named in the published notice
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: General business
ICO register reference: 74611
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 20 of 216 actions (9%)
Actions published that year: 31
Actions under this law: 87
Position on the register: 174th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone
Calls or messages recorded: 194,110
Complaints recorded: 21
Entries for this organisation: 2 on this register

02What happened, and where it sits

Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U received an ICO enforcement notice on 24 April 2025. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence. PECR is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR, so this is an ICO penalty under the marketing rules and not a GDPR fine.

No sum is attached to this action. Enforcement notices are corrective, not financial, which is why Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U appears on the register without a figure beside it.

The notice puts numbers on the contravention: 194,110 marketing calls or messages and 21 complaints. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.

Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U is filed under General business, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2025 the ICO published 31 enforcement actions in total, 9 of them enforcement notices. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 174th of 216 actions on the register and the 14th of 20 in General business. Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U appears 2 times on this register: enforcement notice on 24 April 2025 and monetary penalty on 24 April 2025. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 222 KB in total: "Darian Bishop Trading As ECO4U Enforcement Notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Between 9 January 2023 to 9 October 2023, there were 194,110 unsolicited direct marketing calls made to subscribers who were registered with the TPS and who had not notified Darian Bishop that they were willing to receive such calls. This resulted in 21 complaints which were submitted to the Commissioner and the TPS.

Mr Bishop first came to the attention of the Commissioner in connection with the Commissioner's wider enquiries relating to an increase in complaints concerning the energy and home improvements sector.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

PECR 2003

PECR governs electronic marketing, cookies and communications-service security. It is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR: an action taken under PECR is not a GDPR fine, and the register pages here never describe it as one.

All 87 register actions under PECR 2003

What a enforcement notice does

An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence.

Published notice

PDFDarian Bishop Trading As ECO4U Enforcement Notice(222 KB)

04Other entries for Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U

1 further entry on the register
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U	24 Apr 2025	Monetary penalty	PECR 2003	£50,000	General business

05Nearest entries on the register

Closest by sector, law and date
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Money Bubble Ltd EN	12 Dec 2024	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
TMAC Ltd	3 Feb 2026	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
Elderly Aids Limited	6 Aug 2026	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
Argentum Data Solutions Ltd	26 Oct 2023	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U	24 Apr 2025	Monetary penalty	PECR 2003	£50,000	General business

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2025/05/darian-bishop-trading-as-eco4u-en/.