The Advertising Standards Authority, Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) or the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) are not designated “public authorities” for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Nevertheless we have made a commitment to being a transparent organisation and will voluntarily:
 
  • Publish some of the information a public authority would be obliged to make public.
  • Consider requests for the disclosure of unpublished information including under other applicable information rights legislation.

Information about the ASA and CAP

We voluntarily publish the following information on our website about who we are and our policies:
 


If you would like to submit a request for unpublished information, please complete the form below or write to us using the address at the bottom of this page. We provide most unpublished information free of charge, however where a request requires specialist skills to interrogate our databases, we charge according to length of time the work will take us. 

Enquiries made on behalf of an organisation should provide a named contact. Providing a phone number may help us answer your question more quickly, particularly if it is unclear to us. Replies will be sent by email or (if specified) by conventional post.