A Kent pensions company which relied on ‘misleading’ professional advice has been fined £40,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for being responsible for sending nearly two million direct marketing emails without consent. An ICO investigation found that Grove Pension Solutions Ltd of London Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent was responsible for 1,942,010 emails promoting its services. The emails were sent between 31 October 2016 and 31 October 2017. The ICO found that Grove Pensions Solutions Ltd had instructed a marketing agent to use third party email providers to carry out hosted marketing…