37It is true that, interpreting Article 5(1) of Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts (OJ 1997 L 144, p. 19), pursuant to which the consumer must ‘receive’ ‘written confirmation or confirmation in another durable medium’, the Court held, in paragraph 51 of the judgment in Content Services (C‑49/11, EU:C:2012:419), that a business practice consisting of making information accessible only via a hyperlink on a website does not meet the requirements of that provision, since that information is neither ‘given’ by that undertaking nor ‘received’ by the consumer, within the meaning of that provision, and a website cannot be regarded as a ‘durable medium’ within the meaning of Article 5(1).
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