(1) In these Regulations -
"the 2000 Act" means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
"authorised incoming provider" means an incoming provider who is an authorised person within the meaning of the 2000 Act;
"the Authority" means the Financial Conduct Authority;
"commercial communication" means a communication, in any form, designed to promote, directly or indirectly, the goods, services or image of any person pursuing a commercial activity or exercising a regulated profession, other than a communication - (a) consisting only of information allowing direct access to the activity of that person, including a geographic address, domain name or electronic mail address; or (b) relating to the goods, services or image of that person provided that the communication has been prepared independently of the person making it (and for this purpose, a communication prepared without financial consideration is to be taken to have been prepared independently unless the contrary is sho